SPIWAK: everyone present?
ME: oh, oh! I have a joke!
ME: what do you get when you have three wash u grads -- one law student, one business student, and one journalist -- in a chat room at 9:30 on a Saturday night?
ME: ...
ME: US! this is pathetic.
GABE: this is hot
ME: whats hot?
SPIWAK: you
ME: is paris hilton here?
SPIWAK: shes not hot. shes vile
GABE: no. but chris hansen is coming soon
SPIWAK: whos chris hansen?
SPIWAK: someone from college that only you knew?
GABE: the dateline to catch a predator guy
SPIWAK: ha. so whats new?
ME: what is everyone wearing?
ME: i'm wearing nothing and touching myself.
SPIWAK: sweater, jeans, shoes
GABE: i'm wearing an IM champion shirt
ME: oh sorry. wrong chat screen
SPIWAK: everyone still employed and/or a student?
GABE: i'm still employed just barely
SPIWAK: same just barely as last month just barely?
ME: i'm still a struggling student
ME: (on academic "alert")
SPIWAK: what does that mean?
GABE: she has a 3.7 GPA
SPIWAK: 3.85
GABE: she's slipped to 3.7
SPIWAK: haha
ME: shut up!
ME: no really
SPIWAK: hey, that barely cuts it in Boston
ME: i'm in the bottom of my class.
SPIWAK: bottom of class at Harvard...
GABE: doesn't everyone get an A for just showing up?
GABE: that's what i was told
SPIWAK: exactly
SPIWAK: and who could believe bottom of class
GABE: since she likes being on top
GABE: (that was too easy)
SPIWAK: i heard she likes it from behind too
GABE: we know it's hard at harvard and we are jealous of your superior credentials
ME: you guys aren't being supportive!
SPIWAK: you want support, go to victoria's secret
GABE: we are supportive
ME: i got rejected from a job at VS this week
SPIWAK: did you really apply?
ME: yes. i did really apply
ME: and really got rejected
SPIWAK: i'm sorry
GABE: they took one look at you and said, she doesn't even need a push up bra!
SPIWAK: you applied for retail?
GABE: she applied to run the company, beeeeeatch
GABE: and she will
GABE: i thought you were applying to work at saks
GABE: no, not saks, where was it?
GABE: tiffany's!
SPIWAK: no no, shes waiting for a ring from there, she doesnt want to work there
ME: i plan to be rejected from tiffany this month too
SPIWAK: nice! way to set goals!!
ME: i don't want a ring
ME: everyone else is getting married
SPIWAK: except for the 3 lame ones sitting in a chat room on sat night
ME: i'm just single
ME: and will be forever
SPIWAK: oh stop your whining
GABE: maybe you and spiwak should make a deal
GABE: like in that movie
GABE: if you're both single at 30
GABE: then you get hitched
GABE: i think the movie was called "every movie ever made"
SPIWAK: oh oh, i thought you were talking about robert redford and demi moore
ME: maybe YOU and spi should make that deal
SPIWAK: i'll take that deal
GABE: but i get to be robert redford
ME: spi says he wants to be ernis
ME: "i cant' quit you"
SPIWAK: something like that
GABE: you know kenny is moving to nashville?
SPIWAK: is he really?
SPIWAK: thats great
GABE: yeah to oversee a yogurt factory or something
GABE: i told him not to move but he didn't listen
ME: i had dinner with him last night. i'm sad he's leaving
ME: he's the only dose of reality i have in camb-hell-ridge
SPIWAK: there's gotta be a better way of saying that
SPIWAK: sounds too disjunctive
SPIWAK: how about "hell"?
GABE: anyway. Running out to see someone I met once in London.

(this is where we all said our sentimental goodbyes.)