an old friend here, an old friend there, here a friend, there a friend, everywhere an old friend

old friends have been coming out of the woodwork in droves this past week. so much so that it's freaking ann and dabney out a little bit. the first part of the week was all about ann's past life; now dabney's past has started to emerge.

first there was sumana, ann's boarding school classmate, at supreme trading the other night.



sumana then brought their other high school classmate, roy, by their booth at the renegade craft fair the next day to say hi. it's been fifteen years since ann has since either one of the them.



then in the middle of the fair, a former colleague of ann and dabney's, maria, walked right up to their booth. ann was in the middle of explaining the cell phone charms and cleaners when she realized just who she was talking to. maria was herself a bit weirded out when they told her that a couple of weeks ago someone brought them a bottle of wine from her family's vineyard in sonoma valley. it's been six or seven years since they'd been in touch. and she now lives in Brooklyn.



ann also got to relive her glory days at wellesley with her favorite former londoner, jenny. it had been seven years since their last visit and it was as if they were back in college, except there were no dining halls, no rushing off to class, nor stale beer smells. instead, it was leisurely conversation at the w hotel over bellinis and vodka tonics.



this week was also dabney's reunion with childhood friend amy olk and her boyfriend sorin. they had a great overnight visit, and screened amy's short film jack's garden, about the death of amy's father.



and then just last night, in the middle of dinner with new friends seth and mana, gil called out of the blue. gil is a very old friend of dabney's from her college days. although a student at umass, gil used to spend much of his time on smith campus. in those days, they used to sit around in their birkenstocks, chain smoke, and listen to bread together. it had been about six years since the last time dabney saw gil.

dabney couldn't find a picture of gil, but a print that he gave her back in 1993 hangs in their bathroom.



although not quite the same, it also turns out that mana used to date one of dabney's high school classmates, scott. scott and dabney used to do theatre (scott did lighting and set design; dabney did set construction and stage management) together back in the day. dabney dated his younger brother for a couple of years. dabney discovered that, until just recently, scott was a performance artist in (where else) brooklyn, where ann and dabney just had their first craft fair this past weekend.

this is a picture of scott, which dabney found on-line. she hardly recognized him without his mohawk. scott graduated a couple of years before dabney, so it's been about eighteen years since she saw him last.



ann and dabney think it's clear that there is some weird juju going on...