rewind

A few weeks ago, I found the blog of an old friend of mine. I have always admired Jenni for her creative gusto--in any form--literature, music, design, visual art, etc (the list goes on...really!). But I've always been very impressed by her writing style: edgy, real, sarcastic, witty, intelligent. So I write her a note and her response has me laughing out loud.

Just sharing:

I said...
jennnnnnnnnnnnni!!!! hey girl. just found your blog today. how i miss our long (then very creative, angstful, and just a tad bit too hopelessly romantic) letters--with all the doodles along the borders and the fancy origami-like folds:) i love the way you write--always have! i think i've lost my touch, unless you consider statistics as creative writing:) hahaha. miss you girl!

She said...
Girl!!! I miss you too! You know, when I think about it, I really don't know where we found the time to keep up that constant, daily exchange of information (like we weren't talking all the time in between notes). I still had all our letters from high school up until a few years ago, but they were somehow misplaced when I moved house. Too bad! I think we would've gotten a kick out of all our post-pubescent sentimentality. As for losing your touch, eto lang yon—if I (despite all the brain cells I've killed in the last decade) am still miraculously capable of stringing a coherent sentence together, then I am absolutely certain that you've still got it in you. By the way, I still remember one of our exchanges in which I told you that I was stressing because I had brain constipation, and you wrote back that it was ok because you had verbal diarrhea. Hey, I STILL think that's funny.


:) The next time I come home, I am definitely going to look up all those letters--which I also have filed (yes, filed chronologically!). We'll have fun reading them over coffee. Ah, nothing like teen-age angst! hahahaha.