Vacuosity

Sarah time

I got the chance to meet up with an old friend, Sarah Banani, today. It was supposed to be her house-warming, but the party had been cancelled and I didn't know. What ended up happening was me dropping in on an intimate evening of wine for three. It was fine, though, they were half-expecting someone not to get the cancellation email, and I was just as happy to have a chance to actually talk with Sarah more than just party chit-chat.

Sarah and I worked together on a corporate intranet project some years ago, but mostly we wasted time together. There were many days when we either had nothing better to, or just didn't feel like doing the better things, so we would spend hours at a time emailing or Instant Messaging. We were smug about the wit and intellect in our linguistic parrying. It was our only stronghold in a time of discontentment.

Sarah always intimidated me a bit in that she seemed so educated and more worldly than me. She'd read books I hadn't, been places I hadn't, studied things I never would. I felt that a bit tonight too, but it was tempered with the knowledge that I too have read, I know, I am aware. I'm maybe not as insecure as I once was.

Goodnight Sarah, and goodbye. I'll meet you in the electric night.

posted by David @ 1:20 a.m.