On a whim I did a google search for a college friend of mine. We met in the second semester of freshman year in a programming class. I’m pretty sure he liked me but then realized Scott and I were dating and by first semester Sophmore year, he totally renounced liking me questioning why he ever had. We had the oddest relationship I have ever had. No one could understand why we were friends. He was EXTREMELY smart and we usually were the top 2 of the class. I think I managed to get better grades on at least a few tests. Anyway, he was really quiet. He had a sense of humor but it was very dry and he never opened up to many people. I think he had a handful of other girls I know that he was friends with, 3 of which I also became friends with. But we did everything together. We had all of our computer science classes together, even some physics and such. We did our honors projects together, staying up was past midnight once to get one done. We ate lunch together, walked around campus together, etc. He did other things with other people and M went to school there too so we did stuff but a lot of my memories of college are with D. We weren’t flirtatious at all really and we didn’t even talk that much but we always were together. We even drove all the way to Virginia for a programming contest at VT once. We didn’t talk too much there either. It was a strange thing. He actually reminded me of my dad. You just sort of know he’s there and doesn’t mind your company but doesn’t talk a lot. I do remember laughing quite a bit though. He would always whisper something funny about the professor or someone or something going on. And he was always making fun of someone for something and giving you a hard time about something. We met up a few times after college with the other 3 girls I mentioned but then never really kept in contact. In fact, if I remember right the last time I saw him was for one of those girls’ wedding. He attended it with a date and I remember thinking she seemed to be a good fit for him, I’ve always wondered if they got married.
Last night on a whim I thought about him and searched for him and found his master’s thesis. It mentioned a company he worked for and I remembered him talking about working for them before. I somehow found an email address to that company on some conference information he had attended and emailed him to see if it was him. He was always HORRIBLE at returning emails so I didn’t expect one back from him. But I got one tonight. Nothing major, very D like…I’m still alive, how are you basically. I gave him the short of my life in the past 7 years and hope to hear how he’s doing.
On a side note, it looked like he forwarded his email to his home account, also on gmail. Which I think is really funny because D is the one that introduced me to my beloved Google way back in college. In fact, I also remember him being the first person telling me about mp3s. He always seem to have his pulse on the newest stuff. I think it’d be cool to hang out with him again now. As strange as it was, I do miss D.