Same Maturity Level Since High School

Yeah, I'm sitting on the edge of my unmade bed, listening to my dogs snore while I dork away on the internet. I was just on facebook and got sucked into friending all my old high school acquaintances; the missed, long-lost friends as well as the "omigod we had english together junior year" ones.
The other day when I was working a shift at Lola Coffee, a girl that I remembered from high school came in for coffee. She didn't recognize me but I said hi anyway, and it became clear after a few sentences that she couldn't remember who I was but continued our conversation kindly and politely. It felt totally lame to be serving a peer coffee while she was very obviously on some kind of business break. I was annoyed at myself for speaking up. I should have just served her the coffee and left it at that.
As I'm searching and finding these friends of mine on facebook, I feel similar to that day at Lola: You know, that vague sense of inadequacy and discomfort, wondering if you're cool enough to communicate with people you once knew who appear to have a more interesting life than you do? Won't there be a time, finally, when I will have gotten past that kind of sheepish, adolescent behavior? I mean, Jesus, I'm not ashamed of myself! I think I'm an interesting person... Not super sure, but pretty sure.
And by God I hope they don't ever catch me blogging about it! What a dork. Sheesh, I was a dork then, and I'm a super-dork now. Why do I still put myself through this?

underappreciated haiku

I really love haiku, the Japanese 5-7-5 non rhyming poetry format. The Japanese art of composing haiku is to cram as much meaning into these 17 syllables as possible, but I like haiku because it's easy to write and even easier to be silly. Here are some good ones brought to you by the internet:

A mourning dove feeds
In a marijuana bush
And sings a high coo.

by Tad Lawson

Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don't make sense
Refrigerator.

In Japan, they are considering replacing the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft Error messages with Haiku poetry messages:
Serious error
All shortcuts have disappeared
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
or
With searching comes loss
And the presence of absence:
"My Novel" not found.

Here's one from a daily Beer Haiku website:
That joke from last night
Is even less funny now
Than when you told it.

Aaanyways, you get the idea. Haiku tend to be either irritating puns or totally stupid. But some are funny, though not gut-busting role on the floor side-aching funny. More like "hehe that's funny" funny: just enough to elicit a quiet grunt of appreciation.