First LJ heartbreak

I just noticed that I got de-friended by someone, and while it's not the first time it's happened, this the first time that it made me feel a little sad and alarmed, making me reflexively (and uselessly) scrabble to think where I went wrong. Ah, well. This was a strange "friend", and the source of a very small inner pride; several months ago I added her journal after seeing intriguing posts in my friendsfriends, and she added me back almost immediately, and that was the only communication I ever had with her. How strange! And now that one link is gone. Only in the 21st century, friends.

So, yes: oh well. Now everyone in my friends-of is once again limited to people I've met. Or know from online. Or are Paces. And that's all very good.

It makes me want to reel my less nebulous friends in closer, anyway.

On the topic of friends

To get semi-gushy for a bit: I'd like to thank everyone who stuck around with me last weekend through all the stuff with my niece's temporary vanishment. I never lost my cool, and think all the reassurance I got through AIM, telephone, and even this thingy here helped. I felt a little silly about it the next day, but, really, it was the first time I had gone through anything at all like that. the end.