>i wrote earlier this evening, but after i was finished, i chatted online with my cousin, who is awaiting security clearance to go overseas and do one of those jobs that none of us knows exists but we all reap potential rewards from one day. i would say more, but i do not think it would be prudent, not to mention i do not really have a true idea of what constitutes the task at hand.

anyhoo, we determined that we are twins separated at birth. both with similar interests and propensities. yet we have not seen each other in sixteen years. weird, eh? i wish someone would fan me right now. it is boiling hot in the room i have this computer set up in, but it is the most convenient (and uncomfortable at the moment) place in the house for it. today, i saw a number of people with whom i graduated high school. isn’t it strange that when you are surrounded by too many people from a particular era in your life that there is some strange compulsion (or perhaps it comes from inside of us) that transforms you into the person you were when you knew them twenty years ago? or maybe it’s just me. i would be interested to know anyone else’s perspective on that phenomenon.

today, i sat in a room of about 140 people in the same profession as i am, and i could not, based upon first sight or introductions, pick out even a handful that i thought would end up in my circle of friends. i wonder if that is some sort of prejudice on my part or if it will be a self-fulfilling prophecy. or if it is just fact. i wonder.