One of my best friends in high school was Lisa. I met her through AYS (Albuquerque Youth Symphony, for those of you not in da know,) where she played cello and I played violin. [Insert Asian girl playing violin joke here.] I met her late in high school, but we became very good friends very quickly. When we went off to college, I went west and she went east. We made half-assed attempts to stay in touch through freshman year, but our respective lives caught up with us, and to make a long story slightly less long, I completely lost track of her after sophomore year. Every so often, for the next three years, I would have mild panic attacks when I realized I had lost touch with her, but I never made much of an attempt to find out where she was. But yesterday I was thinking about her, and I went ahead and called her dad to try to find out where she was. Fortunately, Albuquerque has a way of sucking people in, so her dad's number hadn't changed. So it was with some trepidation last night that I gave Lisa a call. After getting over the initial shock of actually talking to each other, I found out that she had moved to Kansas City and was doing some pretty kickass stuff. She manages a coffee shop, and through that, she's met some musicians that she's been playing some gigs with, including one singer who wants Lisa to play and tour with her.

Lisa talked about how she never imagined that she would be where she is today, until we both realized that neither of us really knew where we expected ourselves to be at this time in our lives. I've told a lot of people that I find it strange that this basically the first time in my life where I don't have any plan. When I was in middle school, I wanted to be in high school. In high school, it was college. In college, it was getting a job. But now, here I am with a job and an apartment, and I have no idea what to do next. I can't really imagine myself programming at EA 10 years from now, but I can't imagine what else I would be doing. So instead, I'm just sort of meandering through life, hoping that I don't screw up.

In other news, this weekend I'm going to visit Nathaniel, who I also haven't seen in nearly 3 years. It is sure to be a good time, and I'm excited to see what he's been up to.

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