someone i know from high school (well, ok: he was my sister’s teacher and coach, eventually he married someone from my year, and it was a bit weird but not super weird, i never had a crush on him, we were as casually acquainted as you could be with someone whose house you’d been to to beat them mercilessly at scene it, but still not really someone you’d feel comfortable shouting hey to in the hall) wants to get coffee and catch up, which is not something we’ve ever done before, and because he’s married and is a bit of a crazy christian, i’m pretty sure it’ll just be something along the lines of practicing his motivational speaking on me
so when he asks what i want to get out of 2019 and i respond as brightly and chipperly as possible, “look dude i am just trying to get out of this year alive!”, it’ll shut all that shit down
how to explain to my best good friend that in this horrible year for my brain i haven’t been keeping up on what feels like “work,” without making her feel like “work”
