I say, old chap, it's a friday five. Wonders will never cease.

1. Would you say that you're good at keeping in touch with people?

Hell no. I forget to call, emails languish in my inbox, and I've owed my grandmother a letter for the past four months. I have trouble keeping in touch with people who live fifteen minutes walk away. (That said: Shauny, I'll get to your thing as soon as possible, promise!)

2. Which communication method do you usually prefer/use: e-mail, telephone, snail mail, blog comments, or meeting in person? Why?

I hate using the phone. I would much rather converse in person, even if it requires walking for half an hour to get there. I hate hate hate phones. It's OK for unimportant chattering with close friends, but for anything else, I just hate the way you can't convey emotion and body language. Everything else is fine. Email, especially, is great. Love email. Oh yes.

3. Do you have an instant messenger program? How many? Why/why not? How often do you use it?

I use AOL IM, because when I first came to college, it was the only instant messenger that worked through the firewall. Plus, ICQ annoys me for unspecified reasons. I like chatting to people on IM, it's fun. I don't go surfing for randoms, though, and I tend not to form random IM acquaintances. But I do use it for talking to my friends (even when they're only two rooms away) and for getting to know internet friends from other places. I sign on most days.

4. Do most of your close friends live nearby or far away?

My closest friends live nearby. My 'second tier' of close friends, as it were, are divided between "real life" and close, or internet friends. I recently calculated that I could probably do a pretty good world tour, just staying with my close internet friends. That'd be fun.

5. Are you an "out of sight, out of mind" person, or do you believe that "distance makes the heart grow fonder"?

The former. I readily admit it. The Male is living in another city, and it's hard not to come to the conclusion that yes, I can live my life happily without him in it. But that just means I'm not sitting around pining. I still love him. He's just not right there in my life at the moment. I like to think of it as sort of in stasis.

But I'm weird like that. We all knew it.