so very, very creeped out right now.  I don't keep in touch with many people from junior high and elementary school (read: none).  However, there's one girl who's screenname I ended up with, and een though I haven't seen her since freshman year of high school, we still talk online occasionally.  Last May, she IMed me:
her: hey!  how are you?
me: I'm doing well, how are you?
her: I'm pregnant! 
which was needless to say a little bit creepy.  It just seems so weird, and so regrettable because now so many doors, so many life experiences, are closed to her and her finance Matt.  They're never going to get to do the fun, typically college things that so many of us do over the summer, or plan to do after school: travel extensively, volunteer, study something that you just enjoy.  They're never going to leave the town they both grew up in; never going to do anything other than what was always expected of them.  They're never going to graduate from college and be off on their own for the first time.  In some ways, they both had to grow up too fast, but in other ways they might never be independent.  It just seems so wrong, and cruel, that they're so young and they can't do all the fun, young things.  That they don't....have that option.  I know that there's always choices, and they made theirs.  It just doesn't seem...right. 

I'm writing this because I think that her baby was born last week.  I know that she was due in early September.  Even though we haven't seem each other in 6 years, I feel like I should congratulate her.