Relationships
This week, a good friend of mine, came back to Lubbock to a work related trip. I spent the better part of the day yesterday catching up with him. I had forgotten how much we did while we were in grad school. We worked together briefly in the ATLC, we worked in the same lab in Computer Science, we were constantly at Crickets or Abuelo's, or Rosa's eating. I've been on plane trips with him and on car trips with him. All of that was ten years ago. He moved down to Abilene and then back to Houston. He got a job at NASA, where he has done very well for himself. He has a wife and a daughter now. While we both have had ten years to grow up and mature, in a lot of ways, our relationship is pretty similar to what it was years ago. While neither of us had a lot of responsibility or accountability to those things which come with maturity, I think we were both pretty grown up already. We were both in our late 20's and neither of us was very wild. Since he moved out