I love the Intarwebs. It’s a Series of Tubes. I just sent an Internet the other day. Ok, enough Internet jokes. Here’s the thing. I love that my friends, some originating back as far as middle school, can be cyberstaking me from across the country for weeks and then come out of the blue and send me a message that says “hey man, I hear things are rough, and I am thinking of you” and, to be more specific, let me quote her: “thinking of you - in a good way - but not a lesbian good way - just a genuine good will good way.”

Thank you, Steph. Our Johnnycake caricatures hang near each other in the theater at SJS, and clearly, the Internets keep us near in our hearts as well. I miss you.

Props to Jen, too. I may speak a bleak streak sometimes, but I know in my heart I have a loving family, adoring fiance, and a coterie of devoted lifelong friends, and I am, deep down, happy.