I fell off the face of the earth

Just checking email before lunch was over (my brother is coming to visit tomorrow before he heads off to India, but no longer has a cell phone, or any phone, but has email - a little hard to coordinate), and I just got an email from Sam. We went to school together, he was a year ahead of me in the Civil Engineering program. Ironically, I visited him here at MIT 9 years ago (he was getting his masters and trying to talk me into going to MIT instead of Berkeley/Stanford) before heading off to California.



Fast forward, I was in Brooklyn with some friends and I remembered that was where he grew up (thought he meant Brooklin for the longest time) so did some googling and sent him an email. Than, as most of you are familiar with, I dropped the ball. I don't know why I am so bad with correspondance (email, phone, letters - you name it, I'm no good). Anyways, he followed up and we traded emails and phone messages, but that was it. Again with the ball analogy, the ball was in my court and I didn't send it back the last time. Now time has gone by, realize I should have a party to invite him over to, but that takes time and in the summer it's no good as my apartment is too hot, and who else do I invite? Anyways, it got too big and it all got dropped.



But not this time. We are going to finally meet up this week some time. I am so excited - he is such an interesting character (he's the second from the right, giving attitude). Hopefully he hasn't changed too much. Last I knew he was getting married, so he might even be a father now! It will be so fun to catch up and reconnect. All I have to do is call him tonight to coordinate....