Friends: People Who Make Life Better

Imagine my delight when I checked my twitter thingy and found a link to this article, written by my good friend Amanda. You can be damn sure that it made me feel fantastic. As she said in her article, we became friends in the first year of high school. The ultra-polite euphemism she used to describe me was “socially awkward”, but I can guarantee it would have been much worse if I didn’t have friends like her to back me up. Amanda has remained one of the few people that I feel I can talk to properly. She is powerfully intelligent, and it was such a rare pleasure to have a real conversation with someone in high school. One that didn’t involve nonsensical male bravado or the hurling of apple cores. Those rewarding conversations with Amanda...