I just spent the last hour talking to my friend Jai. I hadn't spoken to her in a couple of months. I called because I wanted to tell her that I was thinking about her and it just turned into this amazing conversation. I miss her so much. She finished her masters degree (in women's studies) last December, and as soon as she graduated, she moved to Key West to be with her boyfriend (they broke up last month). We used to sit at the local Village Inn for hours on end studying or reading over coffee and cigarettes. She would bring her chess board and we would plan study breaks so we could play chess (she was teaching me). We used to get so engrossed in the games that we would forget to go back to studying. Not only was she an amazing chess player but she is also one of the few people I have found that plays a decent game of pool. On the rare occasions that we weren't studying, we use to play pool together. It was fun just because I had found a competitor that was on the same level that I was. We could go shot for shot. The fun of playing chess or pool with her was the fact that they both felt like 'mental foreplay' (her term). She was the last person that I really found a connection with before Amy.

So she let me vent about my life, she vented about her life. We convinced each other that the crazy occurrences that have happened recently in our lives are calming down. She informed me that everything would return to 'normal' once the solar eclipse happens at the end of this month.

It was just good to talk to her. She is one of those friends that you could not talk to for months, then call and pick up right where you left off from the last time you spoke. I definitely need people like that in my life.

I miss her. I miss that mental connection that I had with her. But that makes me wonder why there is even a mental connection to begin with. I'm a physics undergraduate, she was a women's studies masters student, what in the world would we have in common to talk about... I can't put my finger on it at the moment but I do know that we never had a lack of conversation. She just 'gets' me. I appreciate that because not many people do.