the funny thing about people's separate lives is that what we all think privately, we probably more or less have in common. i just got off the phone with a friend who summed up everything right and wrong about his life right now, and i'd swear he was talking about mine.

we live in these little boxes of our own, but they're startlingly familiar sometimes. that can either be a comfort or not. i'm going to go have dinner with him and talk about it.

happy new year.