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Hey Toe,
Sorry I have been so absent from the log. We are leaving the country for a few weeks next week, and I have been trying to catch up on work. One of the projects I am working on I could have finished a month ago, and I let it sit because it wasn't really urgent. Now I realize it has all these problems.

I was working late on this. Now I am stopping, drinking a beer, and eating some dinner. I roasted some potatoes and rosemary in the oven, and I'm eating it with steamed broccoli and stir-fried tofu. I type while I stand at the kitchen island, my laptop perched on an dry, clean edge of the linoleum. Kitchen computer use is a little tricky, I think.

So, dude, are you turning 40? That is insane. You were like fresh out of college when we met, I think. I am probably totally wrong on the age, but I think I am close. I still remember going to the Writers Center for that class, with my good friend and, at that time soon-to-be, yours, S. Pugh-Kebabian. I remember consistently thinking you were the coolest person in the class, mostly because your stories cracked me up or disturbed me more than anyones. I still recall the day S. and I made conversation with you. We were in that lobby of the Center, goofing around, and you were kind of nearby, and I think she said hello. Then I said hello.

That was a while ago. Mid-1990s. Seems like a lifetime away, and at the same time, pretty recent. Time does move inexorably on. (Good word, by the way--inexorably.)

We need to get in touch with S. Next time I am in DC on business, we have to. I have squandered my trips there, in this regard. Not that I ahve truly wasted them, but I think of the times I have mentioned her, and the way we three used to be good buddies, and I think, why haven't we all three been sitting at that restaurant, getting drunk and talking? If my client flies me back to DC in the Spring, which I think they will, we should all get together.

Back to the present. I have been working too much. And this beer is going to my head (Great Lakes Brewery Christmas Ale--I highly recommend it). Next week I am leaving the country for another terrorized country. Strangely, I am not too worried. India is such a huge place, I feel like, eventhough I will stick out as a non-Indian, chances of us getting bombed or attacked in any way are slim to none.

I will try to call you this weekend. Hope you and El are doing well. Good luck with the real estate stuff!
Love,
E-word