Me and my best friend Megan.All you really need is a best friend. It's all about quality, not quanity. Although proximity matters a whole hell of a lot. It's not that I don't have friends, because I do, it's just that they don't live here.
Thank God that for the past 3 months my best friend Megan has been only 2 hours away from me. Without her I don't know what I would have done. I stick to my schedule and only deter from it for rare occasions. I'm only 23 but I like my routine of going home, eating dinner, lounging for a bit, then bed. Monday through Thursday I am lame-o, but come Friday, I'm ready to rally. I put my party pants on and I hit the town, anywhere from Dupont Circle to Barracks row to Adams Morgan.
Making friends when you're out of college is hard. It's a whole different dynamic. I'm a social butterfly, and I have been told that I am a stranger to no one, but it's different when you're in the real world. You don't have the same opportunites that you did in college to make friends. Where do people go to interact and make solid friendships? I can tell you the people I meet at bars aren't doing the trick, and riding the metro home every day isn't the desirable social situation some might think. As much as I love being pressed up against someone else in this DC heat on the commute home, I'm pretty sure I'm not supposed to talk to them. I think I'm just going to start walking around interesting parts of town and handing out business cards that highlight my qualities. Hi I'm Lauren, and I am crazy about football...or hi I'm Lauren I make sarcastic remarks. Hmm I think I'm just screwed, too bad they don't have sororoties for real life so I can pay for my friends like I did in college.
My sorority sisters in 2005
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