What are you
up to?  Where do I begin? I
guess I should begin at the summer of '98 since that's pretty much when the #wolfden
started to go downhill.
In August of '98, Alex (my boyfriend/fiancé) and I moved from Maryland back in with my
parents in Michigan; back to seven miles from wolfie <g>. I took some classes at
Michigan Tech for a term where I got some good grades but slacked off in my Calculus class
so I got a C =) Drat... September also marked my two year anniversary with Alex.
During Thanksgiving, Christine [Wolfie], Alex, and I flew out
to Vancouver and spent a week hanging out with Simon. The weather was pure crap, cloudy
and rainy the whole time, but it was a great vacation. Simon's parents cooked Thanksgiving
dinner for us Americans since Canadians have Thanksgiving in October or something don't they? It was very nice of them
and it was really good too. We did a lot of neat stuff. Spent a day out in Victoria, went
to the movies (saw Waterboy w/ Adam Sandler), had my first legal alcoholic drink (okay, I
was legal in .ca but not in the US), and did lots of shopping. We had a great time and it
made me wish that I would have went to the (re)union.
Alex and I spent Christmas with his parents in Maryland,
and we spent New Years with Christine and Simon here in Michigan. New Years was a bit of a
drag...the weather was TERRIBLE and we got stuck watching movies in a hotel room, but that's okay. We all had fun getting to
hang out with each other.
In January, I turned the big 2-1. Now I'm legal in the US and Canada. =) (Not that being
underage has ever stopped me from doing anything anyways...*cough*) It was a bit of a
boring birthday. I thought turning 21 would be reason for a big bash...but I won't get
into it.
That brings us up to the present. During the middle of March, Alex and I flew out to San
Jose, California, for the Game Developer's Conference. I met a lot of really neat (and
important!) people, made some friends, and got a lot of free meals =) The weather wasn't
as nice as I had hoped it would have been, but, oh well.
 Future plans: Alex
and I will be headed out to Boulder, CO (may ring a bell...that's where the Jon Benet
Ramsey (sp?) thing was going on), to look for apartments in April. Boulder is right along
side the Rocky Mountains and I have been contemplating having a little "party"
during everyone's Christmas vacation. Aspen (famous for downhill  skiing) is only a few hours away. I'm not sure if I'll have the party
yet or not, but if anyone's interested, let me know! It all depends on money. (Doesn't
everything?) Those in fear of skiing (like myself) can go shopping!
May is another traveling month. Alex, a HS friend of
mine, and I will be out in Los Angeles, this time for E3. I love E3...it's TONS of fun and
there's SO much to do. Also, my sister graduates from HS at the end of May.
 Then in June, Alex and I are moving to
Colorado. If any of you are free and want to help us move, feel free to let me know! We
may need help if my mom and step dad can't help us drive a U-Haul <g>. That's about
as much as I can think of. I haven't planned much for after June, except for trying to
make it out to Reine and Duane's party, so that's as far into the future as I can predict.
What are your thoughts on #wolfden and its ending? Would you
ever want to see it back as it was?
I wasn't ever really an active member of the
#wolfden community and I was never actually really close to any of you, except for
Christine, but that's because we went to HS together. I sometimes wish that I had gotten
to know some of you better. I occasionally kick myself in the butt for not making it out
for the (re)union. Lots of people were there and shortly afterwards #wolfden started to
crumble. I missed out on meeting a lot of you and I very highly doubt that I will ever
meet 99% of you.
 I honestly think that the ending of #wolfden was bound to
happen, though I was shocked that it happened so soon. Because all of us are spread out so
far apart, all over the world, it's hard to maintain a long distance friendship...imo,
it's just as hard to keep a long distance friendship going as it is to keep a long
distance relationship going. You make new friends, find lives (heaven forbid!), all sorts
of things. None of us could share many common memories. I'll use Stacy for example since
she was my secret love. Stacy and I never did anything together. All we could do was talk
about our separate lives and anything we had done together. Once we'd talked about
everything, what else is left? So you drift apart. Another example would be Christine and
I. We were pretty good friends, then after I moved to North Carolina and Maryland, we
drifted apart because we didn't really have much to talk about. Now that I'm back in MI
again, we talk and hang out pretty often. Hopefully we won't drift apart again when I move
out to Colorado.
I think it would be great to have #wolfden back the way
it was, but I find it extremely hard to believe it ever will be. Everyone has gone their
own ways, I've gotten hints of bad feelings between some people, and I think it would just
be really difficult. Maybe I wish that #wolfden would come back so I could be nicer to
some of you or become better friends with some of you or who knows what...but I think of
many of you often and wish I was better friends with some of you. |