Ashley was talking about me! She said,
"yea... there is just a general memory of sitting around laughing... which i think is great... i'm reminded of a time when angela said that she judges a friendship a lot on whether you can just sit around and laugh and that when that happened, she knew it was good... i think she was right on the money."
And then I said,
lasanges: aww
lasanges: thanks for that
And then she said,
Ashpearson: no, thank you
It's true, it's true. I believe I may have said that this summer when Ashley visited me at my apartment, but it may have been long before that. It most likely was when we were sitting around laughing, or maybe we were standing around crying hysterically. With Ashley, most likely the former. I might have said it one of the insane mornings we had been awake for more than 24 hours, and we agreed that the sun rise looked like peaches. Maybe we talked about our plans for the land canoe that day. Sitting around sounds lathargic, and I think that maybe out of some sort of ennui, friends end up doing something like sitting around and laughing, so that's when they may not feel so empty. Hmm, that's what friends are for!
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i forgot about the land canoe! so awesome! we must do it still! soul catchers! i believe you first told me about the laughter thing when a bunch of us were sitting around in jimmy john's (mmm) and you were commenting on the group of us. I'm sure you've said it since, but that's what sticks out in my mind.
now with all this friendship memory business going on in my journal, i must give you a memory i have of you (besides four hours in jimmy john's and the reattempt at sculli's). it was a cold night in november and we were walking around oakland. you went to buy a hat at that place... i forget what it was called... margaret worked there... well, you bought... wait... teleropa, yeah! that's it. anyway, you bought a hat, a very cute hat which i thought about buying one, too. then we went to dave's music mine and i bought ryan adams's album gold. and we just walked around and had a good night. now when i listen to that album not only do i think of pittsburgh in winter, but i think about the night i bought it with you. other memories include, of course, staying up all night during finals week... u2 nights... midnight frisbee (alas, your poor lost frisbee)... running around in the snow that night we were hanging in your room making hemp bracelets listening to rasputina... the night we sat around in my room listeing to the vanilla sky soundtrack and you fell asleep on my bed... ooh, when christopher walken made the sun come out... the rock hall... going to cleveland for little steven, getting lost in ohio so many times, going to tom's diner... ah... so many memories... i think i'll stop now.
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