i plan on leaving my heart in San Francisco

Been a while...let's skip the formalities.

So, I'm now living in SF...I've settled into a fantastic apartment with four roommates that just happen to have a collective sense of humor and zest for life that mimics those of the legendary Patterson Street house. I have begun a job in the IT industry that both keeps me interested while not taking up all of my time. I am getting close to total and complete peace with my current situation. I have finally found the area that I will live for a good chunk of my life...whether here, or Denver, or San Diego, I will not be moving back to the East coast.

Therefore, I am finally beginning to realize what I have missed (and what I've neglected) in the past few years.

I have two best friends who have not spoken to each other for months. Details are not important. What is important is that their own relationship, one that I envied and took for granted over the time that I've known them, is broken. Time heals, but only if both of them continue to communicate. If not, they have lost the connection of their lives and I will have lost one of my best friends.

One of my other friends, whom I've missed for a while, has just returned from Africa after two years of peace corp-ing, and throughout her entire time there, I have never contacted her. It has nothing to do with intention. I have, throughout her stay there, followed her trip over her blog, collected items to send to her, and wrote a letter to send with the care package. Though, I never sent anything, mainly because I never thought I had completed it all. When a simple, emailed "Hi" would have probably given a little spark to an otherwise lonely day, I was dumb enough to hold off until she actually returned from Africa. I will write her soon...while she was out trying to help the world, I couldn't find the time to finish what I had started. That scares me a bit.

I am going to work on these downfalls. I need to make more time for friends...

For those that I have already neglected, consider this my official apology.