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it's hard to wake up after a night on the codeine cough syrup. ugh.

the nature of friendship

i was sitting with ciara in the green room today talking, and we ended up having an odd discussion with one of her friends who passed through about his description of his relationship with someone else in the department. it took about ten minutes to decide that the best response to 'is he a friend of yours?' was 'i know him, yeah.', because it's a neutral statement. he didn't want to claim friendship, but he didn't think acquaintance quite described their relationship either. (this promises to be long, so i'll hide it behind a cut!) ( it seems to me that the word 'friend' is a problematic one at best )