I wouldn’t say ghosting, but I hardly ever talk to my friends just because things get busy. I loathe phone calls so other than some group chats when my friends live in different cities we might talk a handful of times a year or less. We pick up right where we left off when we see each other (which isn’t even annually).
People are weird. I always stand by the words of Uncle Vester (Bernie Mac #RIP) from House Party 3.
Hey man, I don’t wanna talk too much shit…
Eh, he had been dating his wife, who was super Christian, since around the time I started at Wake, and as he got more fervently into Church and I was going ham at Wake as a freshman, he just slowly stopped talking to me. I had promised him years before that he would be my first man if I got married, but by the time of my wedding he was fully checked out and I basically did all the typical best man-tasks myself. I remember his speech was pretty short and didn’t really have any stories about us, but did have a weird quote from the Iron Man movie(?). Just a weird, sad experience. The last time I reached out to him through his mom was to let him know my first daughter was born. Think he texted back “congrats man”, and that was it.
I'm a deep believer in the academic or disciplinary nemesis.
This is hard to do when you're unrivaled by any.
Seems like it’d be easy to realize if you did
Especially when you’re both on a quest to recover an ancient artifact before the other
hmm, then the only solution is to select as nemesis another WAKE FOREST ALUMNUS
wouldn't you love to be able to say this to someone, sometime?
Right after you arrived at the same place by telling your cab driver “follow that car!”
It changes within region, based on site. Most of the workouts aren't hyper-religious, mainly because one of the leaders of our region isn't religious at all and will always remind folks to be welcoming - but a lot of the sites are full of super religious people. Some are filled with military wannabees, some are filled with super Christian Nationalists. We have three Black-led sites that seem to be more chill and less culty.
I have.
I've had a lot of Wake interns. Interviewed a Wake alumna for a recent position, but she withdrew her name and decided to stay ate her current org.
No but was hired by one because I was one. Interviewed at a large nonprofit early in my career, didn’t get the job but the recruiter had the same role in a different dept. hiring manager was a Deac and she later told me once she saw that the interview was a formality just a quick vibes check. Worked with her at two different orgs for 6-7 years.
