You're Gonna Miss Your Friends

Ahaha, awesome about your new friend, Sarah. I'm sure that you handled the situation beautifully. Just to fill you in -- the shop that I'm working at is... well I guess it's a combination of vintage and then thrift store -- newer items that we resell. There are a few new items as well. All of the kids working there are young and tattooed and trying to break into the fashion industry and just generally hip. I've been thinking about your post, it hit on some things that have been on my mind as I find myself in a new city. When I've made "new" friends in the past few years -- as in, people completely new to me, not friends-of-friends, or reconnections from schools, etc-- they have almost all been boys. I think that somehow, talking to boys is much easier in a social situation, in a lot of ways its much simpler than talking to people of the same sex. I suppose that its just more common to be looking for a connection with someone of the opposite sex at bars/coffee shops/concerts. Interesting. I've been faced with that same dilemma here a few times as well -- I don't want the interesting girl that I'm chatting up to think that I'm in it for a date. Maybe I'll make acquiring a new female friend my new challenge. And i definitely agree that, in a male/female pairing, there will always be an element of attraction, from one or both sides, whether or not it is ever acted upon. I MISS MY CLEVELAND GIRLFRIENDS. Or, soon to be Cleveland/Houston girlfriends. I hope that this last weekend in town was lovely, Amanda. I can't fathom going back to visit and not finding you there.
Speaking of friends: one of my favorite book passages for you! The scene: a hero is sitting on a park bench, when an unfamiliar woman stops in front of him and silently sizes him up.
"I'm looking for some friends," said the girl, glancing at Antoine and then at their surroundings.
"What do they look like?"
"Like you, maybe. You looked like someone interesting sitting there on that bench, so I told myself you'd want to be one of my friends. You seem pretty good quality. Superior quality."
I want the guts to try that out sometime, preferably on John Cusack, who i happen upon, sitting by the lake.