Searching for Kristin Eidemiller

I have become an internet stalker. Anyone with Google can become an expert on people they barely know. It is frightening really.

I mean, have you ever googled your name?

I have been looking for a friend I used to know in Seattle for months! I spend hours scrolling through Myspace browses for her or her siblings. For $24.95 I can look up her criminal history and see her credit rating along with her last four addresses but this, for me, is overstepping the bounds just a little bit.

Kristin, Where are you?

During this whole process though I have reconnected with a ton of friends from high school and some even from middle and elementary school. There is something therapeutic about forming a new mental image of people when they have been perpetually twelve in your mind.

I found a girl I used to know who became a swimmer in college and married a pro football player. Another of my friends, whom I adored at age 10, is an accomplished Ivy league graduate who has been published many times over. I am stunned! Some are married with kids already.

I just wonder if these new inventions like Myspace and Facebook will keep people interested enough in each other to actually have something to talk about at their 10 year reunions....Or even to show up at their 10 year reunions.

Okay...I think I am done. My new obsession is Myspace. You can find all sorts of people, blog, put up pictures and music and edit the html in any field. It is a thing of beauty.

I miss you friends. Please say hello.

Love from Amy Van Hizzle.

P.S. Irony of all ironies...I just spell checked this post and the checker didn't recognize the word "blog." Hello!