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old school friday five, since i'm not tired and i need to let my story rest for the evening (just finetuning now - the "hard" part is over). i found this one and really liked the questions, as it makes me think back and relive happy memories.

1. do you remember your first best friend? Who was it?

my first best friend's name was meagan. she lived across the street from me back in middleton and we used to rule the small street on which we lived. or at least we thought we did - i was four and she was five, of course we thought we were royalty! i can't remember her last name to save my life (we moved to vermont when i was five, before the time at which i realized last names were important), but i remember her older sister's name was heather.

2. are you still in touch with this person?
that's a big negative - i never saw her again after we moved. probably seven or eight years ago, my mother and i were driving down to my grandmother's house and we ran into her father at a gas station just outside middleton - at that point, she was doing well and all and i asked him to send her (and heather) my best, but other than that, no contact.

3. do you have a current close friend?
i am happy to say that i have several people that i would consider close friends.

4. how did you become friends with this person?
i have some friends that i met in the typical fashion, nothing too extraordinary about the story. but there are a couple of fun standout random stories. i met becca shortly before our STAR day at st. michael's, as i was working in fair haven and she lived there. her mother had run into my father previously and the two discovered that each had a daughter preparing for her freshman year at smc. becca came into the store one day and we wound up talking and realized we were going to be on the same floor of lyons - from that a friendship was forged.

beth, beth, beth ... i still laugh over this one. we knew each other before college, as we ... well, we ran in the same crowd (kind of). one thing led to another and we wound up not talking for a good chunk of college. however, we discovered that we liked each other after all during the second part of junior year and, well, now i can't get rid of the bitch. ;-) heehee ...

however, one of the most amusing/serendipitous stories is the tale of my friendship with paul - both fans of mraz, we were both at iota in january to see him rock out with toca and ian. he enjoyed a fabulous show while i wound up leaving before the show because i fell ill. due to the wonders of a jason mraz message board (and this here blog), we wound up talking and the rest is history!!!! while i'm thrilled that his friendship came out of my misfortune as far as mraz goes, i'm still bitter that i missed a fabulous show (which i now, thanks to paul, have experienced, at least in cd form)!

5. is there a friend from your past that you wish you were still in contact with? Why?
my best friend during the last couple years of high school. we were ridiculously close, even during the first few years of college. we sent tape letters to each other at our respective schools - ala "felicity" - and visited each other as much as we could. we kept in touch up until probably late winter of my senior year and then i don't really know what happened ... just lost touch. i suppose that, in many respects, we wound up looking for different things out of life. regardless, i'd really enjoy catching up with her over lunch or something - but i'm still trying to figure out how precisely to propose such a meeting. it's always random to call someone up and say, "hey! how've you been doing the past year and a half! want to meet up and catch up on how much our lives have changed?!?!"