30letters- TWENTY-SIX

Day 26 — The last person you made a pinky promise to

ATTN: Alissimo aka Alice aka Xerxes

Greetings! How are you? Come on, you didn't expect me to begin this letter in any kind of conventionally normal way, did you... well actually I was going to just write "Dear Alice" but seeing as I know many people named Alice, I thought some clarification was in order. Anyway.

I think you're cool. You're quite a nice person and - at least on the surface? - you're really, remarkably even-tempered. I don't think I've ever seen you snap at someone or explode at them, and you're nice to... almost everyone? It's... fairly amazing, I'd say.

You're also a really fun person to be around! If it weren't against my personal principles to describe maths class as fun, I'd say that you made three years' worth of maths classes quite fun. Enjoyable. Remember all those really weird things we'd ask people? Spelling of hypotenuse, frustum word-association... yeah, don't ask what that has to do with maths, except that those two examples originated in maths class, haha. And I feel obliged to include some sort of nostalgia/memory.

Anyway, one reason I think you're fun to be around is that I can talk to you about what seems like a large variety of inane/not-so-inane things. I can talk to you about etymology and language links without it turning into this awkward morass of "errr yeah and so what, why do I care?" (Or at least, I hope it doesn't do that...) And speaking of talking-senza-awkwardness, I love how on MSN you actually type more than 3-5 words at a time. You're one of the few people I actually have conversation-like conversations with online, and I think that's awesome... even if our exchanges end up being ten lines high and juggling three topics at once or whatever, hahaha.

Actually, sometimes I wonder if I come off as annoyingly clingy/pester-y to you, e.g. when I talk to you so much - which is to say, sometimes I wonder if I'm annoying you. If I am, you don't seem to show it, but then again, I'm both randomly unobservant AND sporadically paranoid... so yeah. Sorry if I do. Ergh.

Okay now I figure it's time to mention the actual pinky promise connection in this exorbitant letter before I feel compelled to end it in order to prevent it from becoming even longer. The last pinky promise I made was with you, and it was a really one-sided promise, i.e. that you'd wait for me and Fio to come out of VA class before you and Elaine went off to 7/11 for dollar day thing. (And you kept the promise, hurrah!)

That ties off nicely into another ego-feeding thing for you, which is that I quite like and appreciate how you're not often averse to waiting for people and/or meeting up with them at random times/places if they ask/beg/pester... okay, that sounds weird but you know what I mean? Example, when I left my USB at the library and we were almost at the bus lines and you went with me to retrieve it... and when you stayed behind with me to get my German marks haha. Even though most of the time I'm a huge pest and wheedle you into staying behind/etc.

Last of all, you're a great friend in that you listen to my various rants/neuroses, and you put up with my annoying-ness - so thanks a lot for that! And, of course, thank you for letting me scab food of you, for lending me money when I need it, for giving me random songs I want and for just being generally, fantastically awesome.

Love,
Sunny (...aka Leonidas aka SLEAZY DUSTBALL - seeee, I even signed off with that moniker, as a sign of how much I love you! Feel the honourrrrr.)