is possibly one of the most hilarious people I have spent time with lately... I know this is long overdue so I wanted to make up for it by putting his name in all caps in my subject line. Anyway, we had dinner a couple weeks ago - probably the first time I've spent an extended amount of time in his company. We went to Haverford together, he was a year below me and notorious for being outspoken and generally a bit crass and slightly controversial. (Am I correct?)

Anyway, a little while ago, my friend Geddes, also from Haverford, pointed out that Dave's profile on Facebook listed my blog as one of only three items on his list of interests (the other two being charity work and depraved sex...). I found this to be particularly hilarious and even made a screen shot with the intention of posting it up here so he would see it and perhaps get a kick out of it. I don't remember why I didn't end up putting it up - I think I was going through one of my many mid-2006 crises and somehow it got pushed to the corner of my mind.

Then about a month ago he commented on one of my posts, I wrote on his Facebook wall, we exchanged Facebook messages for a couple days and decided to meet up and have dinner.

I have to say... it was so completely refreshing to talk to someone from Haverford who really understands where I'm coming from on a lot of issues. Dave seems so self-aware, and appropriately self-deprecating about things that a normal person might be completely defensive about. We may not actually see eye to eye on everything, but the beauty of coming from the Haverford environment is that we've learned how to communicate and co-exist with someone with differing beliefs by taking the time to understand where a person might be coming from.

Serious things aside, here are some highlights from the evening:
1. I found out that Dave works for the NYC Parks Department and was actually slated to meet with one of my former colleagues at Oasis regarding the fact that they don't pay the Parks Department a dime for using most of the north end of Central Park all summer for their for-profit summer camp.
2. Disturbing stories involving our parents and their respective nudity... (not with each other! That would be a whole new level of disturbance...)
3. Perhaps even more disturbing stories involving Dave's #3 interest on Facebook... *shudder*
4. And... we smoked a cigar?
5. Through lengthy discussion, we came to the conclusion that God's plan is really to separate humanity into two groups: morbidly obese, and starving to death via anorexia. <-- As you can see, sometimes even Haverford peeps can be astonishingly un-PC

I wish I could remember more but it has been a little while... you know what this means - we need to hang out again. :)

More this weekend, lots happening in this suddenly exciting life of mine haha