Reunited, and it feels so...blah?
It's my reunion year for college--15 years. It's also the time of year where I email birthday wishes to the one college friend I'm still in regular contact with; her birthday was last Monday. Since we normally get together to attend the Homecoming concert, I emailed her to ask if she was planning on attending any of the other festivities. Now that our school has a big recreation center, they've started hosting the reunion dinners there, rather than farming us out to local restaurants or what have you. In a way, that's kind of nice, but at the same time it might be nicer to attend a nice eating establishment.
When I wrote her, I didn't know dates or anything. This weekend, I finally pulled out my stuff, only to discover the concert's a week from Friday, the dinner's that Saturday, and yesterday was the deadline to reply. Uh...great. And they have pages on the college's website where you can see who all is signed up to attend; when I clicked Class of 1999, nobody was listed. Huh. Weird. Is that a fluke? In going and looking at other classes, some of them did have people listed, but a few had only one or two on there.
I finally heard back from my friend last night. I don't normally even check my email on Mondays because of band, but I'd made it a point to go and look on the college website in case she'd signed up or there were a backlog of alumni that had gotten updated from the weekend. Still nothing. And her reply said, if you go, I'll go. Uh...yeah, about that... See, and I'd hoped to have heard from her sooner, in which case we could have coordinated things and gone, but to pay $40 to what amounts to a dance in the gym where multiple classes will be there and we'll only likely know each other, well, I'd rather just go to Bakers Square. So I said, perhaps we should just grab dinner before the concert and save some money that way. I haven't heard back yet. Hopefully she'll check her email soon; I know she hadn't had internet access at home, and she's working a different job so I don't know how that's affected things. At least I heard from her; I was about to break down and call, and I never do that.
I did just check the college's website; it is being really sluggish, to the point where I wondered if the problem was on my end, except every other website is fine. And, there is still no one signed up to attend the reunion from our year. Well, 15 years isn't exactly a big thing. And at our age, so many people have families that it's probably easier for them to stay home.
When I wrote her, I didn't know dates or anything. This weekend, I finally pulled out my stuff, only to discover the concert's a week from Friday, the dinner's that Saturday, and yesterday was the deadline to reply. Uh...great. And they have pages on the college's website where you can see who all is signed up to attend; when I clicked Class of 1999, nobody was listed. Huh. Weird. Is that a fluke? In going and looking at other classes, some of them did have people listed, but a few had only one or two on there.
I finally heard back from my friend last night. I don't normally even check my email on Mondays because of band, but I'd made it a point to go and look on the college website in case she'd signed up or there were a backlog of alumni that had gotten updated from the weekend. Still nothing. And her reply said, if you go, I'll go. Uh...yeah, about that... See, and I'd hoped to have heard from her sooner, in which case we could have coordinated things and gone, but to pay $40 to what amounts to a dance in the gym where multiple classes will be there and we'll only likely know each other, well, I'd rather just go to Bakers Square. So I said, perhaps we should just grab dinner before the concert and save some money that way. I haven't heard back yet. Hopefully she'll check her email soon; I know she hadn't had internet access at home, and she's working a different job so I don't know how that's affected things. At least I heard from her; I was about to break down and call, and I never do that.
I did just check the college's website; it is being really sluggish, to the point where I wondered if the problem was on my end, except every other website is fine. And, there is still no one signed up to attend the reunion from our year. Well, 15 years isn't exactly a big thing. And at our age, so many people have families that it's probably easier for them to stay home.