terrrry

tonight is terry's last night in town and this is how i feel about it:

 

while i watch terry empty out his apartment (these past three out of four days), i try to tell him how important he is to me.  he responds with mostly sarcasm and an occasional i know how you feel, i feel the same way too.  there's nothing i can say/do/give to him which doesn't seem trite, so i just try to share space and time.  what else can i do?

for me, he's a bit of continuity from berkeley to cornerstone.  we met in statistics 21 office hours in fall 2002 (prof. purves, who is totally awesome by the way) and kept running into each other on campus.  for a while, he was my blackhole aim buddy with whom i shared music.  we fell out of contact for a year or so but ended up working at the same firm.  we suffered on the same project (never working directly) for two years, recruited kids from non-stanford/berkeley schools together, but mostly we were friends outside of work.  actually, we didn't really hang out much until i moved up here in september.  and most of that time, he was applying to b-school / trying not to be depressed about it.  anyway, terry is someone i love/trust very much.  i hope this isn't the end.