One thing that I really miss about college life is just being with people. I miss having friends with whom I share the day-in day-out kind of stuff. All my girls moved home to the South Bay. We hung out on Saturday night. All the girls and Dean (such a baller..ha). It was nice just to be together. We didn't even really have to talk; I just treasured being in their company.

I had some people over last night for dinner too. That was really nice. I wasn't too big of a conversationalist last night, but it was nice just being with friends. Like the two guys that were over kept talking about sports. At one point, one of them says, "I think we're boring ev." To which I replied "huh?" But, I wasn't bored. I just really enjoyed having them there.

I miss opening my house up to people to just be together. I long to have people over to eat with, sit around, watch tv, and pretty much just be together. I've had people over lately, but more for appointment type stuff or to talk about stuff. We used to have people over every day. I miss being able to ask people "hey, is that the sweater you just bought?" Well, not that specifically, just stuff like that. But, maybe this is what post-college life is like. It's a lot quieter. I know we won't be able to fill our place with activity all the time, and I don't want to.

Olivia and I were talking the other day about how different we are. She was saying that she feels like she's only really building into friendship when they sit down and have heart to hearts. I realized, deep conversations are nice, but I'm more interested in the daily stuff. I like to spend time with people. I miss calling up random Berkeley people to go grocery shopping or to Costco together. Yes, deep conversations are still important, but I just enjoy being with people. I'm learning how other people, like Olivia, don't really see building into the daily stuff as a high priority. O and I have known each other since 7th grade. And now, we're re-learning how to relate to one another. It was very exciting when we had these epiphanies.

SN: epiphany is one of my favorite words.

I'm gonna try to open up my place more again. So, if any of you ever want to escape your place, you're free to come over. You can come over, eat my food, watch my TV, almost anything you want. In the words of Alinna and Mary, "Couches are meant to be slept on; food is meant to be eaten; TV is meant to be watched. So, come on over." Anytime..almost. Call first =).