Perhaps the one, single, only reason why I will ever think the Twitter is good

So I was recently looking up some articles online and one of them was by a very common last name "Johnson." Well, I just needed the year, so I figured I'd google it and find the year in the summary and stick it in there rather than dealing with Ingenta and all that. Found the article, but I also guess that my computer knows that I generally look at a good bit of random websites about running and performance, and somehow or another it linked me to an article about an old friend of mine with the same last name who ran the Olympic Marathon trials in 2008. I had kind of "forgotten" about this friend... but she was really one of the most amazing, brave, kind person I have ever met. To not spell out her entire life online, pretty much imagine someone who has received the butt end of the unfair stick on just about every aspect of life, but is absolutely brilliant both academically (graduated with an engineering graduate degree from GA Tech-- gots to be pretty smart!) and physically (really great long distance runner and tenacious as hell). Anyway, so I just googled her for the fun of it-- "I wonder where she is now?" and found of course-- Twitter. It made me very excited to see my old friend is now enrolled at graduate school at a REALLY good school in New England-- I'd assume for a Ph.D.-- and sounding very happy with her running and her work. Yeah, I probably won't send her a message or anything (creepy, yes, I'd say so), but it is just awesome to know she's still around and she's finally getting a lot of happiness for which she has been long overdue.

So maybe, just maybe, Twitter has some merit to it after all.

On a side note, I am eager to be at the Hampton again this week-- thanks to someone really really ridiculously goodlooking! (and awesome)