Some girl has been sending me and several other friends postcards that are weirdly impersonal and, we finally figured out, actually verbatim copies of each other. Today I finally decided to hit her up on Facebook, try to be supportive of her (her cat died recently and I thought maybe part of this was driven by weird grief), but also...basically express to her that her efforts to maintain a personal relationship with me felt weirdly impersonal and that I kind of wished she'd stop (with the postcards, I mean).

Whelp, I mean, I guess you can guess already that shit escalated.

Now not only are we not friends any more, but apparently no one in the friend group is going to get post cards any more because I complained. Which she told each person individually in Facebook messages which were, beautifully (from my perspective), all copy/pastes of one original that named me by name as the dissenter. The beauty is that she is still copy/pasting verbatim messages to send to people singly.

There are multiple different metaphors and parallels you can make about this, not to mention interesting psychoanalyses. I've already done several, of course, but my favorite to date is "I guess that European socialism is really getting to her!" (She lives in Germany now, hence the postcards.)

I am OK with seeing the back of her. I had already gotten tired of the selfies she kept posting of her and her dead cat.