become more social with interesting people

See: http://www.43things.com/entries/view/1745369

So, I went to a museum with someone new on Sunday. I went to a show in Hollywood last night with someone else. I have a networking meeting this Friday and plans to hang out with someone next weekend.

Im trying once again to form a book club. We’ll see what happens

:-/

This goal is a bit more broad than the “make real friends that share my interests goal” – in that this one is a bit more open to friendship and networking and such. Meeting interesting people often leads to meeting other interesting people…and those interesting people might be the ones who end up being your friends. Also, meeting these interesting people opens one up to learning new things that can be beneficial in the future (be it ideas, job leads, blah blah blah). But again, I haven’t been meeting people, so I need to work on this.

This summer, well, more like the week before finals, I made a new friend. That’s always fun. I really didn’t anticipate us getting on as well as we did…but things were awesome! We share similar political and (I think) relgious views. We both love movies and music. We went to a baseball game, saw a few movies, spent time eating (never a bad thing), and lots of time talking and emailing. Its been really fun and even though Ive only been on summer break for a little over a month, its already been better than my last couple of summers.

He left today for a 3-week vacation and I leave in two days (!!!!) for my 7-week internship. So, obviously, we wont see each other for a while, but I’m hoping we can start hanging out again when I get back. I’ve been having a lot of fun, and generally speaking, Ive been leaving the house more – doing this with him and my best friend, etc before leaving town, so its also helped me with my “stop screwing around on the internet” goal. I love how some of these goals fit together.