07/21/2005 Archived Entry: "SP & ST!"

Continuing on through Suicide Project. The F&SN Critic's prose is sometimes clumsy, but it is the intentional clumsiness of the narrator, not anything indemic to the author. Being based somewhat on real life, it is a powerful read.

Also attempting to organize a trip to Splashtown. It's been probably eight years since last I set foot in the water park, but it calls to me. LASIK has stripped from me the glasses which for as long back as I can remember made swimming a near-blind experience, and I am eager to test my new freedom--preferably in the company of friends so close that they are my family.

I don't make friends easily--it makes the ones I have all the more special. I have a beloved wife, seven guys for whom I'd gladly exchange my life, and their wives and girlfriends. That's the extent of my social circle, and I'm happy with that. If I never befriended another soul, I would be happy--not because I don't want to meet new people, but because of the depth of the bond we all share.

Reading makes me maudlin.

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