10 G Forces

July 2004

1o things i thank the G Friendship for:

1. All the times you listened to my senseless complaints – academic or otherwise and my nonsensical tales of men with bad nails, doctors with nice hands, marriage proposals from psychos

2. For popping in my office so that you can imagine me writing you, for all the dinners, beers, vodka, scotch, and the conversations that range from bizarre love triangles, amusing tales of kabadingan, extremely puzzling tales of stalkers

3. For pulling me around when I can’t swim in PG

4. For putting up with what many people think are my eccentricities

5. For reading my long emails

6. For introducing me to so many wonderful people I’ve never known before(i.e., Murakami, Coetzee, Gramsci, Todaro, and well, even Peou, Aglietta, Wallerstein & Braudel, to name a few)

7. For putting names into my father’s long time unknown ‘friends’- the sensation of being home when I hear jazz which my father plays every Sunday morning for as long as I can remember

8. For watching films that fail to evoke happiness

9. For trusting me enough to share how you feel about many things in life

10. For believing in me when I can’t even trust myself