"won't you come home, bill bailey"

wow, three whole months have gone by since i've blogged. i would just like to apologize to all my adoring fans...wait, there aren't any! nevermind. nothing all that new to report in my life. i did recently reconnect with an old friend from high school, which is awesome. now we've just got to find a time when (most of) the old gang can get together and party like it's...2002! that reminds me: i need to call her back. i'm so bad about that. in other news, i had the weirdest idea today. i don't know where it came from or what brought it on exactly (i got it shortly after an afternoon video fest of Borat and Stranger than Fiction. an odd combination, you say? bah!...well actually you got me there, it is an odd combination, but i've been wanting to see both of them and those were the two i remembered to get the other night after work, so...that's my explanation. but back to my point). somehow i got to thinking of how many friends or acquaintences have gotten married in the (almost) five years since i've been out of high school. my first joking estimate was 15, but i thought, "surely that's too many. maybe 5 or 10, but not 15!" then i started to add things up. so far i'm up to 35...and i'm not sure that i'm through yet (and i haven't counted friends that will be getting married sometime soon...for that there's about...7, tentatively). of course i'm not just counting couples as one single unit, but as two separate people if i am or was friends with them. if i did that it would cut it down to about...29...yeah, not by much. then again, some of the people on the list weren't like my best friends or anything. but i knew them, worked or had class with or knew through church or other activities...but still in five years, that's a lot. i don't know, it just really surprised and wigged me out a little. i mean, i know we're all growing up and everything, but i didn't expect to have 35 (and counting) friends to have gotten married in the last five years. this is crazy...and it's driving me a little wacko, so i'm gonna go to bed now. "i'll do the cooking, baby i'll pay the rent i know i've done you wrong remember that rainy evening i threw you out with nothing but a fine tooth comb i know i'm to blame ain't that a shame bill bailey, won't you please come home" ps. harry connick, jr.'s new cd "Oh My Nola" is awesome! i highly recommend it. catch ya on the flip side...and beware of space monkeys!