down with awkwardness

I love the word 'awkward' because it looks, well, awkward.

anyway, on to our story. Kara Griffith stopped by this weekend. this usually would be quite an awkward time, but since she was with her fiance, it was quite a fun time chatting and whatnot. she and Chris (Patterson -- even if you knew Kara, you wouldn't know him: they met at IU) are great together. they're getting married in May and will likely settle somewhere around in the Delaware/Maryland area. he's finishing up his law degree (tho he'll be working for the govt, not as a lawyer), and she's done with her doctorate except for the dissertation.

as you may guess or may know, Kara and I have something of a strange history. we were pretty good friends freshman year, as I hung out with a bunch of the girls on 4th South (one of which ensnared me for a typical 1st semester "relationship", but that's a story for another day). we took lots of classes together. she even talked me into co-editing the school newspaper for a semester. she left for oxford for a semester, leaving me the newspaper and some wild emotions. just as she was leaving, I nearly fell in love with her, or at least something like that. I got myself in a world of confusion in a short period of time. it's a story longer than even this, but I ended up with Michelle in the end.

so of course it was awkward amung us for a while. but now we're glad not only for the end of awkwardness, but especially for Kara and Chris.