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Had dinner with Matt, my former college roommate.
He's a great guy, who sadly, I don't get to hang out with all that much anymore. What with him being a responsible grownup with a family of his own. In any case, his wife is due in December with their second child. They're still conflicted on the naming.
Brian, their 22-month-old son seems to be partial to "Dave", which is very amusing, but Matt and Julie are pretty much down to "Colin" and "Christopher", which I think are both fine choices. Neither of them, I think, are family-related. Just choices they like. Matt has one of those last names, where I think you sound cooler with a short first name. So Colin goes okay, and I think Chris is real cool, but Christopher is kind of awkward.
They'll have two little boys (not so little if the baby is as big as Brian is turning out to be) born two decembers apart. Julie was an elementary schoolteacher (nowadays, she tutors) before they had Brian, and Matt's a counselor in the public school system. They're super smart, and super nice, and a sweet little family. I do feel kind of sad for the kids that aren't going to have her as a teacher, because she's awesome, but she's an awesome mommy too.
Stuff like this always makes me very happy.
He's a great guy, who sadly, I don't get to hang out with all that much anymore. What with him being a responsible grownup with a family of his own. In any case, his wife is due in December with their second child. They're still conflicted on the naming.
Brian, their 22-month-old son seems to be partial to "Dave", which is very amusing, but Matt and Julie are pretty much down to "Colin" and "Christopher", which I think are both fine choices. Neither of them, I think, are family-related. Just choices they like. Matt has one of those last names, where I think you sound cooler with a short first name. So Colin goes okay, and I think Chris is real cool, but Christopher is kind of awkward.
They'll have two little boys (not so little if the baby is as big as Brian is turning out to be) born two decembers apart. Julie was an elementary schoolteacher (nowadays, she tutors) before they had Brian, and Matt's a counselor in the public school system. They're super smart, and super nice, and a sweet little family. I do feel kind of sad for the kids that aren't going to have her as a teacher, because she's awesome, but she's an awesome mommy too.
Stuff like this always makes me very happy.
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Nice to hear you say this. Lots of single guys would say: What's he doing! Stop with the baby-making and the home-life crap and let's go out.
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The only time I ever really hung out with him a lot was in college, because we were roommates. Otherwise, he was always busy, either with classes or working with professors or students. And then, when he was in grad school for Psychology, he wound up being my younger sister's departmental advisor -- so she wound up hanging out with him more than I did.
So when he and Julie started getting close I was just happy to see him happy, because he's always been too stressed out. And now -- he's much more laid back as a husband and a father then he ever was as a single guy. Really, he's still the same old Matt, only much happier. It sucks that we can't hang out, but c'est la vie.