Best Acquaintance Forever?

This is probably not the best time to be writing since I should be studying for my exam tomorrow morning but when has that ever stopped me right?  You can't really get much more bad-ass than this right here.

All procrastination aside, I really just need to present a complaint.

So facebook.  I love facebook.  You love facebook.  He/she/it loves facebook.  It's an undeniable truth.  We just can't get enough of its time-wasting, stalker-y, goodness.  Except for now.

As a compulsive facebook checker, I was just clicking through my normal routine -- scrollin down the news feed.  Then all of a sudden...pop.  An IM from an acquaintance I haven't seen/talked to in years.  Now normally I would embrace the opportunity to postpone my anatomy reading but I was actually looking forward to getting back to the 3 grades of ligament injury.  Plus, this acquaintance wasn't exactly someone I found particularly entertaining, as terrible as that sounds.

We begin with the normal "Hey!  How are you???" -- all the exaggerated punctuation marks included  (thank goodness genuine emotion can be easily concealed through the wonders of the interwebs).  She then proceeds to ask me about school so I respond with the whole Australia schpeal.  Then she hooks me into asking about her life (which I would have done out of courtesy anyway) by dropping the casual "I'm going to be switching schools too."  So I reply with the obligatory "oh really? where to?"

Now here's the part I was not prepared for.  She writes a lengthy paragraph on this crazy story about auditioning for this awesome music festival (which I've never heard of), then meeting some famous musician (who I've never heard of), and getting a full scholarship to this ivy league school (that I've never heard of).  Now don't get me wrong, it was clearly a ridiculous experience which I'm undermining by my sarcastic side comments.  But I really am happy for her.  It's just that after I commended her for this achievement, she said she had to go and then signed off.

The more I write about this event, the more I feel like an asshole.  But to get my point across, it just felt as if she contacted me to update me about her awesome life.  It was like a reminder saying, "Hey, remember me from high school?  You probably didn't think much of me then but here I am, doing great things.  You should be jealous.  And definitely not forget about me now."

So if that was the message, I received it loud and clear.  Obviously it made that much of an impact for me to stop everything and write about it.

And if not, then obviously I'm a jerk who just can't appreciate a brief, friendly chitchat.

This will make you think twice about ever IMing me again, eh?