i swear this isn't a rant... ok maybe it is....

This month so far has seen an unusually small amount of posts from me. I suppose that's what happens when you actually get a life. My sincere apologies to everyone expecting emails from me and not getting them; I'm sure I'll soon get my old pathetic life back and return to haunting your blogs and writing meaningless posts.

Noda hosted another gathering a couple days ago and thankfully my little sis got to attend... I remember when I was a JETT, not being able to see me 'friends' for longer than a month was excruciating. Rather sad in retrospect, but what can I say.

At the time I shared the typical mindset that if everyone knew me, or at least my name, I was cool. Bless my ickle naive heart. I have very painful memories of wrangling email addresses out of people I barely knew and attempting to have conversations with them. Again, my apologies to anyone whom I may have harrassed during that stage.

Just to clear up a hypothesis that someone informed me was circling: I am not engaged to my computer. I do not have cybersex with old men pretending to be hunky male models in their 20s. My acqaintances are not entirely limited to chums overseas.

I have real friends, not imaginary ones, thank you very much.

Just because we met at a Jett camp and I pretended to be your friend until just recently when I realized that I only like talking to people I actually know and get along with and therefore decided to block you, doesn't mean I am entirely friendless.

Now that that's out of the way...

Does anyone have any advice on how to hold a conversation with a Family teenager? I still haven't gotten the hang of it.