Many congratulations to Chris Grothkopp who became a dad on October 4th! I recently joined Facebook and have been surprised to find a lot of my former college classmates there. Chris and I were on the rowing team in college and was someone I always respected and liked. It is kind of amazing to me to see all my former friends and acquaintances grow up, get married and have kids — just like I have. I mean, of course they do, but in my mind they’re all still 19 or 23 or whatever age they were when I saw them last.
I’m particularly happy to have discovered old friends because I really lost contact with everyone I knew when I lived overseas. When I came back to get married, there were very few college friends to invite to the wedding. Because my two years without internet meant I lost everyone’s e-mail address, and since we’d all just left college, everyone had new physical addresses and all the addresses I had were incorrect. I got my invitations back by the handful because all the addresses were bad. Of course, I had some close friends I had stayed current with (to the tune of 70 cents a minute) but they were (and still are) all over the planet, too. It seems a little surreal to find all these familiar faces via Facebook ten years later.
Anyway, I’m happy for Chris and wish him the best! For those who might recall that Chris is 6′6″, I have to mention that the baby seemed perfectly normal-sized at 8 lbs., 9 oz. I’m sure his wife is happy about that (*cough*…sends mean look at Marti…).
October 24th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
Hey Missy!
Here’s another crew gal crawling out of the wordwork. Greetings and hugs from Seattle!
Here’s the funny thing, I found your blog b’c my little brother got invited to a Halloween party, hosted by a Grothkopp family with GU connections. I googled Chris to find out if it’s the same family and found your blog.
Small world, eh? Can’t chat now ’cause I’m supposed to be working =), but let’s connect another time.
Go Zags!