It must be Christmas!
Dec. 15th, 2006 11:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aryanhwyBecause I got three Christmas cards in the mail today. It's always fun getting the card from my parents and reading my mom's yearly Christmas letter and find out what I've been doing in the past year. (I still snicker each year when I remember the Christmas letter the year Joel and I started dating - we'd been going out for five months and I was already ready for him to propose - when she referred to him as my "friend" - wouldn't even call him my boyfriend!)
This evening a bunch of us went back to that Eritrean restaurant for a farewell dinner for one of Joel's and my officemates, Stefan. He's nearing the end of his Ph.D. and is heading back to Bonn to complete it there. Today he finished up cleaning out his desk, and suddenly I looked over and saw how bare it was. We're going to miss him - he and Joel especially have similar tastes in humor and things, and there's always some laugh going on in their corner of the office. We'd known for quite awhile that he was leaving at the end of the semester, but the end of the semester came so quickly! Tomorrow there's a farewell party at the houseboat he lives in, and then he's off. Luckily, Bonn is relatively close, and having him living there will be a good excuse for Joel and I go make a weekend trip there sometime, to sight-see and to see Stefan. It's far more fun traveling places if you've got friends to stay with.
This evening a bunch of us went back to that Eritrean restaurant for a farewell dinner for one of Joel's and my officemates, Stefan. He's nearing the end of his Ph.D. and is heading back to Bonn to complete it there. Today he finished up cleaning out his desk, and suddenly I looked over and saw how bare it was. We're going to miss him - he and Joel especially have similar tastes in humor and things, and there's always some laugh going on in their corner of the office. We'd known for quite awhile that he was leaving at the end of the semester, but the end of the semester came so quickly! Tomorrow there's a farewell party at the houseboat he lives in, and then he's off. Luckily, Bonn is relatively close, and having him living there will be a good excuse for Joel and I go make a weekend trip there sometime, to sight-see and to see Stefan. It's far more fun traveling places if you've got friends to stay with.
