Franklin chocolate! And geeky college photos!

Happy St. Nicholas Day! Yesterday, a big box arrived from Germany, courtesy my friend Franklin. Inside: four gift bags filled with chocolate, one each for me, Allison, Jodi and Walter. The last bag was a thank you for some custom-made DVDs that Walter had sent Franklin after FKO.

The photo to the right was taken at Ju's place, just before we left for the castle.

The photo above shows the contents of my gift bag.

THANK YOU, FRANKLIN!




Above: A photo that my friend Reid posted on his Flickr page from 1985, taken in Robarts Library on the University of Toronto Campus. Michelle Sagara West is on the left, I'm on the right, and you can see our pal John Swain slinking around behind. Michelle is now a fantasy writer and John is an experimental high energy physicist at Northeastern University.

Check out Reid's blog entry for a 1983 photo of me, Luisa and Reid back in those days -- it remains one of my favourite from those days.

Reid also has a link to some other old photos from that entry. Reid and I were dating in those days (in case you're curious about why Jeff isn't around! He started hanging out with us a year or two later, I think) while Luisa was dating someone else. Years later, Reid and Luisa asked me to be Matron-Of-Honour at their wedding. :-)

As I mentioned in this Blathering a couple years ago, we were part of very close-knit crowd back then, like a big family. Then we graduated and some people moved away, some had families, some drifted to other friendships. Luisa's now one of my best friends; here are some reasons why. Jeff and I still hang out with some of the old gang now and then, like this boardgaming night.





1983 photo above courtesy Reid's Flickr page. From left to right: Luisa, ??, Tom West, me (seated), Andrew, Kaarel, John Chew's dad, Nick, Andy, Pontus, John Swain, Reid and John Chew.

Survey: Do YOU still keep in touch with / hang out with your friends from school?



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