There are places i'll remember all my life though some have changed. Some forever not for better, some have gone and some remain.

I am terrible at keeping in touch with people I care about deeply. I generally dislike talking on the telephone, I don't take time to write out e-mails or letters to people I care about, and hardly any of them live within half an hour of me anymore.

I used to love AOL Instant Messenger because it was easy to keep in touch with people by sending a simple aloha. Nowadays everyone has grown up and grown out of AIM. My buddy list has shrunk because it is rare anyone I know actually uses it anymore. In fact, though I am always signed on, I am near my home computer for as little as two minutes a day.

GChat and Facebook Chat are available, but who is sitting around on GChat all the time? Facebook chat still seems creepy, but I will use it if necessary. It just seems that as we have moved from high school to college to real life or graduate work we have lost the ability or desire to just sit around and talk on the computer. This is a good thing. Something though needs to change in my communication abilities if I am going to keep in touch.

I don't make bold promises. I will probably not sit down and write e-mails or facebook messages to people. There are too many to choose. I will not pick up the phone and start yapping at people either, it is not who I am or what I do. I hate calling people on the phone. Notice I said calling people. I like answering the phone and talking.

So what will I do? I have no idea. Only like 15 people read this so most of the people I need/want to talk to won't see this message. However, if you read this then know I miss you and say hello.

To my friends who I wish I talked to more in: San Francisco, Lexington, Los Angeles Pasadena, Portland, Claremont, Ann Arbor, Dallas, St. Louis, Chicago, Nashville, Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Greensboro, Charlotte, Atlanta, New York, Washington D.C., Boston, Crete, Germany, Italy, Belgium, England, Toronto, Prospect, Norfolk, Cincinnati, San Diego, Kansas City, Portland, Guam, Houston, Springfield, Louisville, Philladelphia, Spain, Santa Cruz, Birmingham, Bridgeport, New Orleans, Ventura, Austin, Oakland, Denver, the list can continue I am sure to hit up some colleges people are studying.

Such is life some will say. And I agree. You meet people, become friends, and more often than not you drift away. You move somewhere and make new friends, or they move and do the same. The drawback from going high school in Louisville, college in Raleigh and Claremont, and back to Louisville is that my friends are spread all across the country (and world now). My best friends from Louisville from high school have seemingly all moved away. The few that remain are just as busy as I am (read: super extremely) and we seemingly run in different circles (such is life, when we get together every so often we fall right back into our friendships). So with Thanksgiving and Winter vacations coming up I just want you all to know I miss you and that I hope life is treating you well.