I have a Christmas gift for my friend Ruthie and it's been sitting on my coffee table since, um, last Christmas.

Yes, I know. I know.

Signs of me cutting myself off from the rest of the world are starting to bare their ugly teeth at me these days. Why doesn't anyone e-mail me anymore? Oh, it's because I don't write back. Why don't I have any messages on my voicemail? Oh, because I don't return any phone calls. I've always kind of been a "right now" sort of person, but it's been getting kind of ridiculous lately.

Once school ended I figured I'd have more time to see everyone and hang out with everybody, but now I'm working all day and exhausted all night and slowly becoming one of those people I make fun of all the time- the people who can't hang out at 9:30 because they're too damn tired. Damn how that karma comes whiping right back.

But OOOOOooo... here's a story- I have a friend named Liz, who I grew up in Lancaster with. She's a hottie hot asian, and I had a HUGE crush on her, even when she was my best friend in high school. We first met in 9th grade and hung out a bit, but when we started hanging out a lot we found out that our dads grew up together in Vietnam. Went to the same high school and everything. How crazy is that? We always kept bumping into each other everywhere, and in college she finally ditched her loser boyfriend and moved to Philly.

So after I tried setting her up with my friend Brendan (a friendship that ended horribly and goes to show you should NEVER choose lovers over friends, not even if that friend is mostly a selfish brat) Liz and I sorta lost touch for a good year. And after I start thinking that I'll just never ever see her for the rest of my life, a guy I work with goes up to me and says "Liz from Lancaster says 'Hi'." Well, shit, I know the world is small, but this made my itty bitty heart go boom and I promptly got her phone number and called.

So here's the kicker to the whole story. When I call I find out that not only is she still in Philly, but she lives A BLOCK DOWN THE STREET from me. For a whole year we've been neighbors. GODDAMN. I guess we're destined to always be friends. It's kind of awesome.