just a note, people.

Let's see:

I don't really see my first girlfriend much anymore, since we live in different towns.  We get along well enough when we do talk, and we're able to joke about how stupid we both were.

My second one is now going out with one of my best friends; they've been together for well over a year now.  They have minor lil' tiffs now and again, but they work really well together.  To be honest, I get along with her better now that I did when we went out.  We never really got to know each other that well (predominantly because she was hella shy), and we barely ever did anything other than talk about bands.  I love hanging out with her now, though.

My most recent ex (who isn't that recent at all, really) and I are good friends.  It took me a LONG time to get over her, and I think she's always going to be one of those people that part of me will always miss, somehow.  She's in Seattle for the summer, but usually we go for tea, go clubbing, trade books and records, etc.  She's the only one of my friends who enjoys academia as much as I do, so we usually end up rambling on and on to each other about the state of the university system, Foucault, Henry Miller (she's responsible for getting me into him), postmodernity in all of it's flawed and ubiquitous glory, the joys of a well-done reasearch paper, the anguish of sociology readings that put you to sleep...and so on.