Old friends...

Happy St. Patricks day!

It's currently 7:45pm... I'm still at work, getting myself excited for a little bit of drinking tonight.

Gonna be seeing some old high school friends... which is very rare, since I usually make it a point to try not to see anyone (outside of my regular crew) from high school. It's not so much that I had a rough time in high school, because really, I had a great time (some say too great). No, it's more that I think I'm happiest having that be a [n almost] closed chapter of my life that doesn't ever need to be gone back to.

Except on nights like this.

Because once every year or two, I like to go out and see these guys. They are fairly smart, young guys, on their way to being professionals. No idea who they are still but that's okay. Because the nostalgia they bring with them is usually great.

We'll drink and smoke and laugh about all the old teachers and people and how these guys would never, ever, drink or smoke. They'll catch us up on what our other old high school pals are up to (wait. Who just got engaged!?!?).

I always enjoy it because with guys like these the interactions are always so casual and fluid and laughter-filled that it's almost as if we've all been best buds since the very beginning. I'm sure it would ruin it if we all made the effort to see each other more though, so on the one hand I'm kind of glad we don't. We're all aware that we're each just a phone call away anyway, and we all seem happy enough in the circles we've got so... just for tonight I'm going to go and hang out with them and I'm going to have a great time!

Cheers people. Hope none of you get too sick before the night is over! haha.