I love to think, I love to speak deliberately, I love to be with people who are better at what we're doing than I am. I love to be challenged, and I love rising to it. I miss Matt's wit, style, silly, insane intelligence. I think I've come across someone very similar.

I have been paraphrasing things, dumbing them down for everyone around me, quieting my intensity, chilling my passion, because majority rules, and majority hates these things. But back when, I had Matt to keep me sharp, to keep my brain moving, to keep me thinking. Then he went away, and now... now, if I have my way, maybe I've found someone to push me. God, it was so invigorating to be actually challenged!

String theory, Virginia Woolf, Evangelical Christianity, philosophy,God. How many more topics can you cover in an hour conversation? And now, i go to bed exhaustd because I -think- all the time. THinking. THinking. Thinking. It's frieking awesome.

And then... I finally get to go out with Erin on the bikes, and... 12 miles in just under an hour. Frieking awesome. I love to be pushed to do/be/get better. Can't wait for the next time. With either of them. (hopefully there is a next time with both... at some point.)