People I Could GChat With Right Now: A List

1. My sister.
2. My friend from college who never says exactly what he means and writes brilliant music reviews that also never say exactly what they mean. (This works well in music reviews, by the way.)
3. The former, brilliant co-editor of my college newspaper who I admire enough that he intimidates me
4. A web designer with nice blue eyes and a sarcastic sense of humor.
5. The funniest man I know. (With or without a beard!)
6. Some kid I used to "mentor" about how to be a teacher, but all I ever really taught him was how to make etoufee with portobello mushrooms.
7. A girl who made me cry once, although she never knew it. Also, she had the first bike I was ever jealous of.
8. This guy who I met the first time when he was out on a date with a friend; the second time when he was out on a similar date with a similar friend; and the third time when he found me on Craigslist and was asking me on a date. Then I took myself off the Craigslist Personals section.
9. A great improviser who is having a baby.
10. This fellow I briefly lived with who always had lunchmeat in the fridge and kept most of his stuff in Tupperware containers in his room and possessed TWO very expensive air mattresses, but no actual bed.
11. A woman who I met in Phoenix when we were learning how to teach together and to whom I told all the sordid details of my deep love for my boyfriend at the time. Then, four years later, she went to Atlanta to become a leader of teachers who were learning how to teach and happened to have that former boyfriend in her learning group. We all thought it was a very small world.
12. One of the two people I once taught Sunday School alongside.
13. I don't know who this person is, but she is always, always logged into GChat. It's like she's never closed her computer in her life. Poor computer.
14. This crazy, talented girl I met at a Hornets game and who started a book club that I attended for a year.
15. Four people I interned with at The Nation and have not spoken to since.
16. Two ex-boyfriends. Although they are both "busy" and idle.
17. This girl with a really pretty laugh who tried to start a singing group a year ago, but I don't think that's how I met her.
18. The girl from my first year of teaching who was insanely beautiful, freakishly talented, and hobbled around on crutches from a lacrosse accident.
19. A friend of the boy who was three relationships ago who made films about old people.
20. The new girlfriend of one of the ex-boyfriends. She's really pretty and talented and smart and crafty and we used to be friends but I screwed it up.
21. An assortment of people who contacted me on Craigslist (see number 8) after I put my profile on the "Strictly Platonic" section of the Personals when I said I was seeking a "partner in crime" four years ago. Most of these are middle-aged men who showed me, in some capacity, vaguely pixelated low-resolution photographs of their penises.

Comments

[lex]

you have a million more gchatters than me. i think we WERE gchatting at this time! all of the people i can talk to on gchat are exboyfriends. and sister.

[Andrew (aka #3)]

You should double click and say hello next time!! I was just thinking about how I miss the old Wednesday night layout sessions. And your awesome playlists!

[Sophie]

I miss you too Andrew Jesaitis... the pictures of your dog keep me happy.

Alexis, I will GChat the fuck out of your ex-boyfriends and make them wish they never lived.