09/21/07: That just goes to show you

how different my growing-up experience was from almost everyone else's. I don't have a single MySpace friend from elementary through high school and haven't been able to locate any of my former classmates on it, either. Then again, there were only like 50 of us, and most people in rural Alabama still haven't discovered this magical dark art thing called the "internet." I did find a single woman in the graduating class below mine, but she never really liked me so much and I didn't bother contacting her. I also very recently found one of my "next door" neighbors, who was 3 classes below me. "Next door" in rural Alabama pretty much means 3 miles down the road, but in her case, she really was within walking distance. But we never visited each other in the 14 years of being that close, because of the whole white-black "taboo" thing -- and she is a really hot blond (with a somewhat identical twin). Because of our age differences, I didn't really know her that well anyway -- she was closer to my younger brother, really. In my senior year, she became a varsity cheerleader and occasionally said a little to me (as I was a [mediocre] football player). Nevertheless, I don't think it's enough for me not to feel weird about contacting her. But she's just about all I've found as far as old schoolmates. I do have a couple of college classmates as Friends, but we never stopped being friends after college so it's not like they had to track me down through MySpace.

My Myspace is almost entirely for people I've known in the past few years. When my friend killed himself a few weeks ago, it became a great source of information about what was going on, but other than that, it's been pretty useless since most of my friends vanished following the ex dumping me. I sometimes go days without bothering to check it, and when I was dating her, I had to check the damn thing every five minutes.

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