Missed an entry yesterday and nearly missed writing one today. Turns out that when you work 10 hour days and then spend another 2-3 hours socializing with your also exhausted friends, everyone ends up super tired and you sleep as soon as you get to a bed. Who knew?

I guess we can say that it's to our credit that we stay up to socialize when we are this tired. And this is likely the only time we'll get to see each other this year, which is a big part of it. I truly do miss having them in my life in the immediate kind of way that we used to have. It's never the same when you can't just drive over at a moment's notice. But I'm lucky that they make that effort to keep in touch and keep me involved in their lives, because I have always been uniformly terrible about keeping in touch with people. Sure, I can probably chalk some of it up to laziness, but a lot of it is that I really think that people are busy enough and do not necessarily have time for me. But these friends have always gone out of their way to show that they will make time for me. And they have told me they consider me family and made my name a part of their daughter's. It really means the world to me.