People I Used to Know

I was working the horse show the other night and talking to my gate opening partner about where we went to school and what sorority we were (are??) in and suddenly this girl comes up to me and says "I thought I recognized you!" At first I thought she was someone who had graduated a couple of years ahead of me, and even though I still have no clue what her name is, I have a vague idea as to who she is. The bad part is I think this girl is my grand-little in my sorority. For those who don't know the big-little system is an integral part to sorority life, each girl gets a big sister (which means she is a little sister) and when that little sister gets a little of her own the big sister becomes a grand-big. That was perhaps the worst explanation of the system, especially since it's the same as a regular family works.

Now for the past two weeks I have been back in my hometown taking care of my mother as she had some sort of mental breakdown. First of all that was the craziest experience of my life as I was running two households at once and making these super-adult decisions that no innocent 24 year old should make. The point of all of this is that while I was home it was strange to go to the store and see someone I know but they wouldn't recognize me. Granted it had been seven months since I had last been there and before that I would only visit on the occassional weekend.

While I was down there I spent a lot of time with one of my family's friends. I've know her since I was just a little bumblebee with a buttercup hat on (Halloween costume). We went to dinner and I went over to her house to visit. It occurred to me later that this was the first time we had talked since I became an adult. The last time we spent any length of time together I was in high school and still in the angst period.

Finally I will end this with the story of someone that I have been thinking about all day because I dreamed about him last night. Ok so I won't really tell much of a story about him. We met in college and have stayed friends even after graduating different years, my finding D-, his moving off to the wilderness of a different state, coming back to live in a town a few hours away, and our only having a conversation every couple of months. At one point I thought this was the person that I wanted to spend forever with. Except then I just got over it. Except sometimes I think that maybe I haven't. But then I remember just last year when he stayed with D- and I for a few weeks and he made us insane. Actually the whiskey spiked acorn squash he made for us made us crazy. Or if not crazy at least afraid to eat anything else made by him. So really I think that if I had known then what I know now I would have been able to avoid times like this. Anyway I had this really crazy dream about him last night and whenever I dream about someone I usually think about them all day.

Oh and S- if you read this a couple of weeks ago I had a dream about a certain B-S- that we used to know.