I will now sacrifice my better judgment, privacy, and the chance to rekindle an old friendship on the alter of that god which seeks to publicize and reveal even the most intimate details of our lives.

Here is the situation, an old girlfriend from my undergraduate days at Indiana University in Bloomington contacts me after several years by sending a message to my Dad on facebook (BTW I don’t do facebook…I think it’s a joke, more on that later). I sent her a text and she emailed me from work the next day.  Here’s her email to me with the names and residence edited out: