Oh, and... today I ran into my friend. She's the one that I had become really close friends with rather quickly earlier this year. We are sort of in the same place in life (or were) and we even took two family vacations together. Things were going great until, if you read through the archives, the shit with my woman's group and then things have basically been nothing between us. It was she I was writing about the other day when I mentioned people gossiping. Today I saw her for the first time in a long time and, as usual, she did her "Oh, we need to get together..." line but I just didn't go there. After hearing her say how busy she's been, how stressed and how she's been flying under the radar not talking to people then in the next breath how she knew about my week last week, well, it just doesn't add up and it makes me feel strange to know that I'm being talked about in other circles. She knew about my overnight trip... I don't know... I hate gossip trees. I don't want to be a leaf on one and it makes me feel like crawling up and cutting myself off.