I am extra lonely tonight for some really weird reason. So I’ve been thinking of friends of the past (since I don’t really have any friends right now).

I’ve had three main groups of friends in my life (I don’t count elementary school, ‘cause all those “friends” I had in first and second grade were quick to abandon me once I was deemed “uncool”): my high school group, the band geek group in college, and the guys at the house in college.

Things that remind me of my high school friends:

• Being hooligans in the hallway during lunchtime.
• That one lady (I don’t know if she was a teacher’s aide or what) who thought our shenanigans were hilarious.
• That one guy who thought our shenanigans were blasphemous.
• Harassing Alan.
• Harassing Aneel.
• Those stupid cardboard stilts that almost killed me in the bathroom.
• Going to the Co-Op, buying a loaf of bread, and then just sharing that amongst us for our lunch.
• Zach and those “Emergen-C” pouches. He would just chug those.
• That time I accidentally* threw the loaf of bread at Aneel and almost got detention.
• Stalking Lead around. All the time.
• That stupid “porn” reading of “To Kill a Mockingbird” that I did that had everyone cackling.
• Prom dress shopping at Ross!
• Being hooligans in that field across from the university.
• MSN conversations!

Things that remind me of my band geek group:

• Band (duh).
• Playing at the football games while paying zero attention to the game itself.
• “Please touch my butt…please touch my butt!”
• Being hooligans at Shari’s.
• Being hooligans at Denny’s.
• Drag shows!
• Rock Band basement parties at my dad’s.
• That basement party that was basically an orgy, let’s not lie.
• That time we all drove out to Idler’s Rest and spent half the night crying/venting about how our lives were not what we wanted at the time.
• R O B  D R A M A
• The nerd-fest that was the band table in the Commons. Oh my god, that table was fun.

Things that remind me of the guys in the house:

• NOODLE FRIDAYS.
• Incessant Rock Band playing.
• Quoting pretty much every viral YouTube video from 2008.
• All the weird relationships in that house.
• Getting impulse piercings in Missoula.
• Late night conversations with Sean (he got off work after midnight and I was always the only one still up).
• Reliving our childhoods via movies on Netflix (and making fun of said movies).
• Being hooligans in Shari’s.
• Otter Pops!

I miss having friends.

*It really was an accident. I was swinging the bread bag around like a nun chuck and the bread launched through the bottom seam and nailed him in the face. Right in front of our security guard.