Forgot One

Yikes- time has flown by, but realized I forgot to jot down my dinner with Sam the other night (weeks ago now). It was great catching up with him - ended up meeting up in the North End. While sitting and eating dinner in the Daily Catch there (a super small restaurant with literally three tables and the kitchen pratcially in your lap), we saw a small Saint something parade go by - the North End is great as it has become touristy, but is still full of real italian locals (non-gentrified). I forgot how strong his personality is - he is such a great guy and very entertaining - endless tales of his life between than and now. He had me in stitches and by the end of the night, my face was tired from smiling so much. I was right, he had grown up in Brookline, currently lives there now and turns out to be quite a good resource about finding the good local haunts (yeah for me).



I'm really glad to have reconnected with him - he, of course, has three gorgous little kids (all my friends seem to have kids now, I must have missed the memo). The interesting little tid bit was that we were catching up on mutual friends (well his friends that I knew). Actually had a cannolli (or rather stood in line for one - Modern was very busy that friday night), with Ramus (spelling? a roommate of his I knew kind of - he was an electrical engineer).



The funny tid bit was about his other friend/roommate Jamie. Now, if you knew me in college, you would recall I had a huge crush on this guy. It was a strange relationship we had (it was a strange time after all - college). He was a bit of a ladies man in a strange catholic guilt way - really a sweet guy underneath it all. He wasn't very academic, or rather hadn't found his calling. Well, it turns out his calling a-came a-knocking. I don't know what or where he would end up, but this was my last guess ever - he's been three years training to become a priest. A priest! The catholic kind. I cannot stress enough that this was so far afield from his path as to be in another country, another universe. Still very strange. It's a funny world we live in and it sure keeps thing interesting by dropping in these little curve balls. So that was my night: great company, great food and good stories.