Me and my flatmate just spent ten minutes looking up remixes of the Skype ringtone, then we found a piece of music which someone has created entirely out of sounds made by MSN Messenger. It was nice to see that there's someone out there with even more time to waste than we have.
All this lack of things to do has also given me a lot of time to think. Over the last few days I've been thinking about my friends. I've often heard the theory that when people choose friends they tend to go for people who look like themselves. Thinking through my oldest and closest friends, I blatantly disprove this theory because they are every last one of them blonde with blue or green eyes, aside from one who is ginger. None of those adjectives can be applied to me, not even a little bit.
So I wonder why I chose them as my friends. We're all different body shapes so that's not it. We have different hobbies (although there is some overlap with a couple of them), we want to do different things with our lives and have different careers, we have different stances on things like marriage and having kids, and (as far as I know) I'm the only Christian. I can't think of a single thing that all my friends have in common, with each other or with me.
I guess this one will be filling my time for a while yet, because after days of thinking about it my answer is still 'I don't know'. Oh well, I suppose it's good for my brain to keep it working on something.
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