You can't spell "fie" without IE
Firefox decided to be cranky again just now. No matter how many times I click its icon (and I've tried all of them), it just won't bring up a window. Opera, Firefox's loser friend who hangs around 'cause they share a couple of hobbies (mouse gestures and zooming, maybe) has decided to follow suit and go into hiding as well. Getting on the internet is feeling like getting a cat into a full bathtub. After giving up on my first and second choices, I dragged my cursor reluctanty to a seldom-used corner of my system tray, where I found that little blue e sitting there, grinning wryly at me. "I knew you'd come back to me," it seemed to say as i double-clicked on my last resort. My old homepage and a pop-up advertisement for cosmetics provided a familiar yet unwelcome greeting.
So...yes. I'm back again. And as I was thinking earlier today about folks, I realized how right my dad was when he said to me that though I then (this was near the middle/end of this past school year) seemed to be surrounded by friends and companions, soon the vast majority of these, even those among them who I called dear friends, would leave my life, and that I would be very lucky indeed to go through life with one true friend. I haven't seen a lot of folks in quite a while, and i've already lost contact (as much as I can at this point, though it suggests a trend) with quite a few of the people with whom I thought I would stay in touch.
So a new mission of mine (this sort of builds off of my call for serious conversation, which you can probably still see if you scroll down enough) is to make better friends. Not necessarily more, but better. After all, if I can make a few really good friends, I'm already ahead of the game. So I'm hoping to take some of my more flippant relationships with promising comerades and put some focus into them. I still have another year of easy contact with the juniors, at least.
I think it's easier to do this sort of thing when one is single. Which, coincidentally, I am now.
EDIT: Man...I really can't stand the color scheme on my lj. It's like {insert green and black neon person/thing} {choose one: exploded/vomited/died} all over this site. If I ever feel like accomplishing something pointless, this is pretty high on my list.
So...yes. I'm back again. And as I was thinking earlier today about folks, I realized how right my dad was when he said to me that though I then (this was near the middle/end of this past school year) seemed to be surrounded by friends and companions, soon the vast majority of these, even those among them who I called dear friends, would leave my life, and that I would be very lucky indeed to go through life with one true friend. I haven't seen a lot of folks in quite a while, and i've already lost contact (as much as I can at this point, though it suggests a trend) with quite a few of the people with whom I thought I would stay in touch.
So a new mission of mine (this sort of builds off of my call for serious conversation, which you can probably still see if you scroll down enough) is to make better friends. Not necessarily more, but better. After all, if I can make a few really good friends, I'm already ahead of the game. So I'm hoping to take some of my more flippant relationships with promising comerades and put some focus into them. I still have another year of easy contact with the juniors, at least.
I think it's easier to do this sort of thing when one is single. Which, coincidentally, I am now.
EDIT: Man...I really can't stand the color scheme on my lj. It's like {insert green and black neon person/thing} {choose one: exploded/vomited/died} all over this site. If I ever feel like accomplishing something pointless, this is pretty high on my list.