I Don't Fight With My Friends

I noticed this today.

Of the people I consider my best friends (those saved to the SIM card of every cell phone), I have never had a major argument with any of them.

We've discussed philosophies of life, choices made, and such with disagreement, but never anything where I thought "I wonder if I can still be friends with this person". That means one of two things:

1. I have chosen really similar people for friends, so there is little area to argue over, mainly on the fringes...stuff we don't care about much to begin with.
2. I avoid having arguments at all. This seems far less likely, there are only a couple times I had issues with them, but they blew over kind of quickly.

I consider this somewhat impressive because I have known 4 of them for a decade and a couple since I moved here in 2004. Good job me. Or good job them?

Let's call it a tie.

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out

The Smiths' version, not the Anberlin version. Not that I have anything against Anberlin, they just don't have Morrissey. That's a big deficit to overcome. I keep meaning to write here, but keep putting it off at the same.

May is always a good month for me, everyone else is stressed out about finals, while I merely hum along getting ready for primaries. I presented my strategy for the midterms a couple times. It went over well, as did my strategy memos.

Even though I've written two books and have a 3 times weekly music column, I am still kind of surprised when people refer to me as "being a good writer" or "having a nice style/voice". Even when I write about a novel subject for me it is well received.