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So my poor Cambodia travel friend Ben is saddened that there is not more posted about him on my livejournal. Well don't feel too bad - I don't really talk about anyone on it. It's a very self-absorbed thing. But since you were with me when I created it and for the next month following I guess I owe it to you to mention your name a couple of times (in a positive context). I am truly sorry that the two entries I did write about you making reference to your death. So, I am about to dedicate an entire list to all of the wonderful things about you Ben because you deserve it (and because I hope to never feel an obligation to mention you on here again)- Well, I'm kidding I guess.
So here it goes.
The wonderful things about my friend Ben are:
- He let me use his personal website to post pictures from our trip on my livejournal...and even though it is a website called "super-robot" and it is dedicated to weird cartoons about robots I still appreciated it.
- He provided me with nightly councelling sessions and totally bizarre analogies regarding my Vancouver Toronto dilemma.
- When my councelling sessions started to exceed the anticipated 200 hour limit, he still let me go on and on and on.
- He does great imitations of me being grumpy and obsessive...and even after doing his best imitation of me in Hanoi about 30 times over, he will still do it if I ask him to (and strangely it is funny every time).
- He didn't bring his own camera on our trip and then forced me to bike through a rain storm and destroy mine. Then he convinced me to get it fixed in Cambodia and when it was finally fixed he still repeatedly asked me to take it out in the rain....grrr. Oh wait- this is supposed to be a nice list...ok let me think...
- He went out of his way to get a hotel with a pool in Shianoukville.
- He took me for a grilled cheese dinner on one of our last nights in Vietnam because I needed comfort food (even though he wanted Vietnamese food).
- He continued to tell me interesting stories every night before we went to bed, even though I refused to tell him any of mine.
- He listened to my rant about men all summer- even though he had no clue what I was talking about.
- He was so good-natured, and didn't even seem phased when his glasses got stolen and when he fell over the coconut.
- He answered the door in our freaky eco-lodge when the knocky bird came calling.
- I lived in his bedroom for 4 months in BC.
- His inability to teach his dog that you should not keep the person in the basement room awake all night whining, is what has resulted in my true appreciation of the Burn's bog at 3am.
- His interest in weird stuff like relativity and robots and pikas is kind of interesting (but mostly weird).
- He let me joined his across Canada road trip even after hanging out with my grumpy self for a month straight.
- He changed his mind when I freaked out about driving through lethbridge.
- He drove my fabulous little car part way across Canada - even though it has a broken mirror - and he only complained about it, well a lot, but that's because he doesn't know how to shoulder check properly :)
- I truly believe he tried his best not to snore every single night and to keep the volume down watching his ridiculous cartoons. That was considerate.
Aww, see, now you are the star of my livejournal. Don't get used to it.
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