naomi, i wish i had been on this more when you were gone. we could have used it like we used to. :) i guess with the invention of facebook, our blog is slightly more obsolete. except for our anonymity, elitism about who can participate in discussion, and content. other than that, don't you miss this? mary has long made something else her homepage and i think rebekah even forgot this was on the internet. getting married and all...

so, i don't mean to be nostalgic or sentimental, because i was a lot of that in college and somehow i would have liked to leave that behind, in that era. but i think i get online when i'm sad and so it's hard not to tell the whole internet about my emotional world when i get to this blog. i'll resist the urge and not do it. and instead i'll just say, i liked it best when you were all just a doorway, or even a mattress away. i liked it when relationships seemed more simple and we mostly just laughed together. i hate that old is getting to me.