I have been organizing and planning a new year\\’s party (a few friends are getting hotel rooms in downtown SF) and have been trying to invite everyone that I know who may be in the bay area. I had been spamming people I hadn\\’t seen for a few years. People who I neglected to keep in touch with since I moved to Pittsburgh. And strangely enough, it has been all working out.<\/p>\n
After inviting people I knew in college and grad school, I started on the people I knew before all of that. Suddenly, I came to a dead end. My social life before college was nonexistant. I thought of my high school and middle school \\”friends\\”. It\\’s not that we didn\\’t keep in touch. It\\’s more that I was only friends with them because I didn\\’t want to be alone. Moreover, we were all collectively \\”outcasts\\” in school. I remember having three pleasantly plump friends–Megan, Jamie and Amanda. I was the tiniest one. I was a mute in any social situations. I liked them only for the fact that they liked me. But that\\’s our high school selves, isn\\’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have been organizing and planning a new year\\’s party (a few friends are getting hotel rooms in downtown SF) and have been trying to invite everyone that I know who may be in the bay area. I had been … Continue reading