Cast of Characters: Philly Edition

Every person has a core group of people they're around often. When I moved up to the New York area I kept in touch with a handful of my friends from back home, some of whom I've mentioned before and some who will be mentioned in the future. I realized this afternoon that I had never bothered to introduce most (if any) of them, so here we go:



[Wyoming]

Probably the person I see the most from my South Jersey group. She's the sort of friend that just knows when you need something, and just wants to be there for you. Our relationship is special because we drive each other nuts, but we've both reached the point where we understand the situations and we don't let stupid shit get in the way. I've known her since I was seven, which is a really long time, although we've only been close the last few years.



[Dayton]

This kid drove me insane for three years. We met junior year in high school when I got switched into his study hall one day a week. He is easily the funniest person on the face of this planet, wittier than anyone can possibly imagine. Wyoming and him are together, and I see them both pretty frequently. We've gotten to be pretty good friends over the last few months, and he and Wyoming pretty much keep me from throwing myself off a cliff from boredom and loneliness.



[Topher]

I have to work to keep this one short because Topher and I have a friendship that I don't know what I would do without. There isn't a single thing that I can't tell him or ask him. When my life is at its hardest I run to him, and he has never turned me away. I have learned more about myself through our friendship than I could have hoped to by myself. He challenges me to be a better person, and to overcome the shittier aspects of my rabidly depressing personality. In fact, the only truely unkind words he's ever said to me (that were unprovoked) were: "Don't play Left4Dead on my username, you'll ruin my score".



[SM]

Reality really defies this kid. You all know him as Halfcyborg, the film boy-genius whose struggles with the Bolex become the focus of multiple "RAGH!" texts every few weeks. I've known this kid since kindergarten, when I convinced my little 5 year old self that we were meant to be best friends because his cubbie was on the opposite side of mine. Fast forward a few years later and we are mached up once again, this time by our mutual interest in Art (Him being rather talented, Me being that kid who throws paint on canvas and screams "Masterpiece!") as well as our mutual terribleness at Halo and most other Xbox related ventures. He pops up every few months with a full beard and a christmas shirt to remind us all that we're really not as creative as we think we are, and that our colleges are really Mucho Suck compared to his. He's a great guy, and I realize now that I should tell more stories where he is involved.



[Jereality]

This chica probably gets most common mention on here, because we've been friends for quite awhile and our online ventures have always been pretty hilarious. We were largely inseperable in high school, and people had a tendency to get nervous when they saw one of us without the other. My personal belief is because they knew that while together we could inflict plenty of damage, it was better to have us both present and accounted for than to only know where one was.



[Alex]

I'm not delving too far into this one, because it just isn't all that worth it. Alex is a great kid who I have been involved with off and on for probably six to seven years. At some point we'll hopefully be able to have a real friendship again, but for right now the jabs and yelling (most often on my part) have led to us keeping our distance from one another for a bit. But Alex has always been a funny, well-intentioned guy who is working his ass off trying to be the best Mad Scientist that he can be in as nerdy of a way as possible.





So there you have it, the "Cast" of characters for my Philadelphia life. This is an incomplete list, of course, and I will certainly have to write a part two or three and probably even a cast for my New York side of the week.