leaving

mona left last night. we gathered around her helping to clear EVERYTHING out of her room - she was dressed in black, lucia was counting money in the corner, sheila was, unsuccessfully trying to use a mac, and roya just sort of sat quiet so completely fazed out. i on the other hand was once again in charge of providing entertainment - the pressure.

its always bitter sweet when those you were close to leave. bitter because you feel slightly left behind, but sweet because you get all the stuff they couldn't pack in their bags!! sweet!

i'm talking pictures, food, pencils, pens, huge maps of south america and japanese sweat cloths!!...too insensitive?

i'm just kidding. it is an exciting moment though as well, you know that they will be going off to do fantastic things, why? because they are your friends, and you only surround yourself with fantastic people.

roya leaves this afternoon, lucia and i will be taking her to the airport...this'll be hard...

(though she did leave me some really cool things)

on a slightly more disturbing note, i once again realized that everything one posts to the internet and makes public...it becomes PUBLIC. i just for the heck of it googled "navid foroughi" and pictures from my blog came up of when he came here. aaaah, that "welcome wrestle" was fun. fyi, i won.

i can't help digressing...these goodbyes are tough.