near and far, lost and found

i'm back at school now. today i had two classes and i have one tomorrow. ay yay yay..... i don't quite know how i feel about this.

so hear this - on sunday i had a surprise visit by jen frederick and adrienne matthews whom i hadn't seen since they graduated from college about five years ago. they called up gracey and told her that they (meaning all the tyler '03ers) were all meeting up in the boston area to say bye to adrienne who is going away to london for a year, and that they were going to drive out to p-town to see grace. it happens that only jen an adrienne were able to actually follow through, but i was extatic to see both of them, especially adrienne whom i used to hang out quite often, and whom kept me hanging when i called her few years back. apparently she lost my number (she answered my call at work and couldn't talk and naturally couldn't remember that she was supposed to call me back). they both looked great and it was just so nice to be surrounded by familar faces and reminisce familiar people and stories. we walked around town talking all day, catching up about where we've been and what we've done, and where we're headed, etc... it was rather interesting to learn about how similarly adrienne and i were motivated and how we were all moving onto the new page of our lives quite unexpectedly, her to london, me to providence, grace to boston... at night after watching stupid movies on comedy central we went to eat at way down town. after that, gracey fell asleep like she always does, so the rest of us got happy and played trivial pursuit. genus edition. i couldn't answer any of the entertainment questions, but it was fun just being dumb like we all used to on the fourth floor of tyler. jen got the most pie - she was brilliant unlike adrienne or i.

monday was a bit heart-breaking, for everyone was leaving. adrienne and i helped grace and her parents pack the volvo for her to go back to school while i was doing laundry in her house. then adrienne and i went on a walk on the beach while grace was running errands with monica and jen was going on a run and caught up some more. it was nice - probably my last summer day on the beach this season, and i was glad to have spent that moment with a friend who i thought of but had no way to keep in touch. in the late afternoon, adrienne and jen went back to boston, and soon after grace and i left. we left mandy behind, who is flying back today to virginia to go back to school.... sad sad scene. i realized that we are all stepping onto the new stages of our lives, and we are all antsy and uneasy, like a teething kitten or a molting insect. it feels as though you have an itch where you can't reach, and just can't help but to let the time do its magic. i can't wait to meet up with these people again. i love my friends near and far, lost and found.