Friends

I need to keep reminding myself that I can't forget my friends. I get caught up in things, you know? I don't multi-task well. I mean, I can handle students and papers and curriculum, web sites, blogs, and wikis, because that's what I've been trained to do. But my personal life, that's another story.


I've been neglecting my friends lately. I'm horrible at Facebook, something I could attribute to a Gen X lag with all things tech, but for the fact that I'm pretty tech savvy- I can Twitter and Flickr and blog with the best of them, and that I have lots of friends who have fallen into the FB trap- some have even fallen and climbed out, a sort of FB rehab, if you will. So I guess it's not my age or my lack of technical acumen. It must be me.

I think at some point in your life your friends stop forgiving you your quirks and start resenting you for them. In the end, I'm sure they just stop being your friend. I mean, life is very short and I know how I feel when I'm being ignored. So here I am, at the end of February, having not spoken to dear friends for over two months now, and I'm feeling pretty low.

I resolve, then, to stay in touch. I think I have to, because a friendless, forty something year old man is just sad.

Hey, I know. Maybe there's a Facebook group that can help me...