04.29.06

It’s a small world, after all.

Posted in General at 10:43 am by Adriene

This weekend is Founder’s Day weekend for Jeff’s fraternity (basically, when they celebrate when they were, duh, founded). A new tradition they’ve started is the nice dinner the night before the actual Founder’s Day bash for the alumni. So, we went down to Buckhead (eek) to have dinner at Fratelli di Napoli, a fairly nice Italian restaurant, which I’d never been to before.

We had fun catching up with some of the brothers and their wives (a few of whom were sorority sisters of mine) and eating a nice dinner. However, it became so obvious to me that although you may fall out of touch with some of the people you went to college with, what a small world is anyway. For example:

- My maid of honor, Kate. Kate got married and moved to Texas about two years after Jeff and I got married. We kept in touch some over e-mail and Christmas cards, but I hadn’t heard from her in about three years, and I lost both her e-mail address and her mailing address. However, I was talking to another brother’s wife (also a sorority sister of ours), and she said “Kate? Yeah, she lives in Kennesaw now.” Huh? Kennesaw’s about five minutes from my house. So, Amanda (the other girl) gave me Kate’s contact info, so she should plan on hearing from me soon.

- We were talking to a younger brother about the “Girls always date the first guy, but marry the second guy” rule that seems to be around their fraternity. Jeff pointed out that that rule was true for me. So, Daniel (the younger guy) asked who the first one was. I told him, and the girl sitting across from me piped up “Oh yeah! He’s married to my sister!” Then I found out that the same girl who spoke up pledged my sorority two years after I graduated. Haha.

So yeah, I became very much reminded of how small the Georgia Tech community is these days. Here’s hoping Kate’s happy to hear from me.

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