I had a really good conversation with a friend of mine today, a nice long chatty talk about Real Things and Silly Things and the color of my fingernail polish. And during the course of the conversation I realized that the reason she and I are good friends and will always be good friends is that we are the kind of women who are friends with men.

I mean, personally speaking, I have a number of female friends too, awesome ladies. But, they're the kind of women I'm friends with aren't necessarily the vapid kind of girly girls. They too are the kind of women who accrue male friends. They all have female friends, but aren't the dramatic, manipulative kind. And I dig that.

However, I realized during my conversation with this friend that while we both enjoy being around the more "logical" sex, that it has a very large downside as well. Part of the problem with having male friends of marrying age is that they will eventually (and probably soon) marry. And while it is possible to resume friendship with a married girl friend with some slight changes, all of our friendships with our guy friends will change drastically once they get married. And the bulk of the people I do things with on regular basis in a certain city are male. So now both my friend and I are wondering what's going to become of the gang when all our boys are married off.

I guess I have no pithy conclusion to this entry at this time of night. The conclusion my friend and I came to is that our boys better marry some awesome women.