Hallmarks

nothing makes you realize how addicted you are to email like having your domain go down for a few days. if you were trying to write me and the message bounced, sorry. the sucker is back up.

i sent out a request for address updates today and the email has been pouring in. notes from people i've not spoken to in ages. i got email from fran and greg, whom i went to U of Michigan with in '90. i got email from dj, whom i lived with in Santa Cruz. i got email from kerry and alden and lindz, whom i traveled with in Nicaragua. emily took time out from studying law to write. alison, whom i was a kid with, sent me pictures of the house she's building. julio wrote and so did anita. and my cousin dan wrote and called to say hi. good egg, that dan.

sometimes the number of people i know and care about sinks in. those are good moments.

now i feel like a hallmark commercial. yech.

if you didn't get a request for an address update from me and you should have, please let me know where you are. that means i don't have your email address.

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in some internet strangeness, i saw a woman yesterday that i know but whom i've never met. she sent me email a while back and we corresponded a little, then she decided this wasn't a good time to meet me so we said "talk later." but i started reading her blog, every day. and it's been a while.

and then last night i saw her on the street and wasn't sure if i was supposed to say hi. i decided to let her pass. it was sort of like someone stepping out of a dream and becoming real. and i liked that feeling so thought i'd leave it be.