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[susandennis]

I am really grateful for old friends who have names that are Googgleable.

My lurid past has produced a rather large and diverse cast of characters. I don't keep up with many of them and have totally lost track of the largest percentage. I'm ok with that except once in a while I do get mildly curious... Wonder what ever happened to Eddie Marsh? Or Becky Gantt? Wonder what Joe Distelheim is up to these days?

Eddie Marsh was my first real drive-in-a-car-on-a-date boyfriend. Becky Gantt was my best friend in 6th grade. (Her next door neighbors built a bomb shelter in their back yard.)

And, as you can imagine. Googgling either one of these is a waste of time when all you have is a name and Becky probably changed hers years ago.

But, Joe Distelheim?! Pay dirt. He and Dottie were good friends of me and my husband's. They were between my age and my husband's (lots of room in that 20 year span) and had no children and were fun and very interesting. Joe and my husband worked at the same newspaper. Joe went on to many other newspapers and Google, this morning, told me that he retired from Editor of the Huntsville, AL paper a couple of years ago but I think I remember getting a Christmas card from them to that effect anyway. Google also told me that Dottie's daddy died this past August.

This all came up this morning because 1) two of the three publishing systems I use to do my work at work are down and 2) I'm reading (well, listening to the MP3's of the unabridged CD version of) Any Place I Hang My Hat by Susan Isaacs. It's about finding lost people.

I've always said I am not a people person. This is mainly in contretemps to those cute perky people who are always announcing that they 'love people' as a reason why we should overlook the bit about their being idiots... But I digress...

I am not a people person and I don't really want to get into contact with Becky or Eddie or Joe or Dottie or most of the people in my past. I'm just curious about what they are like now - how they turned out and what they are doing.

And they are joined on the same list that is even way longer if I'm allowed to add people who's names I can't even fully remember:

• Linda - my best friend in 2nd grade - her last name sounded like Rind and she loved the nickname Lemon.
• Brenda and Linda - the twins in 5th grade who everyone was mean to and they didn't deserve it one single bit.
• My Junior High English teacher who taught me to diagram a sentence and taught me why it was important... I can still parse with the best. He also tried to teach me the value of understanding current events. I would actually not mind if I could tell him that I 'get' that part now.
• I'd like to know what happen to Miss Pense, my high school athletics (it was way too snotty a school to have gym) teacher. I do NOT want to meet up with her - just know what happen to her - and I'm not sure I want it to be anything nice.
• Ernie - the 7 foot black guy who was a sales rookie with me at IBM in 1972 in South Carolina - talk about your affirmative action duo!
• Tim Ohsann (although actually, his name is a good one - looks like he was still at IBM in 2004 but he's not listed in their directory now)

Actually, there aren't as many as I thought. Guess I'm really not a people person!

Comments

[proemial.livejournal.com]

I hereby announce that I 'love people'...

They go smashingly well with mint sauce, or plum chutney.

[susandennis]

PLUH-EEESE close your mouth when you chew! Really. And in my book plum chutney could make anything more palatable!

[phornax.livejournal.com]

Hufu (http://eathufu.com/home.asp)! [warning, don't click if yer squeamish!]

[susandennis]

And, see, I was just wondering I could eat to make me fierce and brave in tribal combat! Love it. And I'm thinking that plum chutney would be a fine accompaniment.

[proemial.livejournal.com]

I mostly certainly do not eat with my mouth open. I was raised properly.

Unlike so many other monkeys who claim to be humans, these days.

[susandennis]

Oh, right, it was that monkey guy next to you... Sorry.

[proemial.livejournal.com]

Apology accepted :)

Pass the mint sauce, please.

[aellia.livejournal.com]

Many,many years ago,I had a penfriend in Boston Massachsetts..in those days it seemed like a miracle to get letter from your country,her name was Linda Liebermann

[susandennis]

Yeah Linda Liebermann - even if she did keep her name whole - is about as easy to find as a Jane Doe. But, I do remember foreign pen pals. My Mom had one in Germany when she was a teen and they kept it up for years and years and and to this day she still gets a Christmas card from that woman's daughter!

[legalmoose]

I have to say, I love that my legal name, the one Mom calls me, is totally un-googleable because it consists of two common english words (both of which are both a verb and a noun, depending on usage). I kind of enjoy that anonymity.

Now, search for me as "legal moose" and you get tons of stuff... ;-)

[susandennis]

You are right! Now, that's a fun Google.

And I'm glad to hear that Mrs. Moose (assumption, there... I know) didn't name you Legal. That would be some burden on a baby, I think.

[fj.livejournal.com]

I often need to ask Dean what your legal name is.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Guess I'm really not a people person!

No, as the photo makes clear, you are a Penguin Person.

[susandennis]

I am totally a penguin person... It's the outfits - gets me every time.

[ms-hackman.livejournal.com]

those cute perky people who are always announcing that they 'love people' as a reason why we should overlook the bit about their being idiots... But I digress...

hee hee

Far be it for anyone on my friend's list to digress in such a fashion, for shame, for sooth, thou dost protest too much. I think you LIKE them!

[susandennis]

ha! Don't you have some painting or packing or child soothing to do??? How dare you yank her from her friends????!!!!! For sooth.