Even more friend stuff

Sure, I'm still friends with Becca and Jackie. Jackie and I usually e-mail a few times a week - I will invite her to do something. Don't know why I haven't. She's so fun and easy and will be up for anything. I should create a friend budget so I won't feel guilty spending money on doing something fun.

Josh absolutely has friends to do the guy version of jumping up and down while screaming. I think it involves fist bumps. He plays basketball with them a few times a week and they are always having emergency summits to discuss important things, like having reached a new level in a Wii game. Their parents are friends and they coordinate vacations together too. Josh also is really friendly and easy-going, and has tons of time. His only real commitment is school. He's sort of working this summer, but it's for his dad so if he wants to take a week off or something he can. If one of his friends has been dumped and they want to go out drinking, Josh never worries about being able to get up in the morning. We may live together, but we're living very different lives.

My sisters and I agreed to go hang out in Brooklyn this summer more. Maybe while we're there I can ask around to see if some old friends still live there. After 9/11 it seemed like a lot of people put us in a separate category of somehow being Other and Different, and people who now looking back, I would have thought would have stayed close with us, didn't. It's not contagious but that's kind of how we were treated. Plus it didn't help that we moved to the South Bronx. And I wasn't so good at staying in touch with everyone when we first moved in with Aunt Elaine.