oh that’s right…I *was* an asshole then

I just found out an old, old former friend is on Facebook. I am on Facebook, too. So I friended her. I wonder if she’ll answer me.

If she didn’t, I would understand; it’s been thirty years since we were friends. We were students at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Pope Paul VI had just died. Then his successor died too, about 8 minutes after becoming Pope. Jim Jones and his bunch had just dosed themselves. We were in New York. There was a newspaper strike, so our courses were taught by otherwise idle Practicing Professionals.