high school reunion

I spent Saturday afternoon with T, a friend from high school, hanging out in the house she owns, talking about her upcoming wedding. Bizarre. She's taking his last name, which seems freakish & weird to me. I guess it is what most ladies do. She wants the family that she has to feel 'like a family,' all with the same last name. I don't think last names have anything to do with family bonding. My immediate family has 3 different last names. [My dad and I have one, my mom has another, the brother chose to have mom's & dad's hyphenated for his last name.] I think we do alright.

Part of T and my ritual of hanging out is to update each other high school acquaintances. She runs into people's parents at the supermarket. I have a few people linked on Friendster. T is still in close contact with a woman that I was close to in high school, C. C and I stopped being friends because she only wanted to be my friend when she was uncoupled. I was unwilling to put up with that. C's pattern of losing herself in unworthy boys has not stopped. She was explaining her latest breakup to T, saying that she can't get her live-in (now ex-) boyfriend to move out. Part of the problem might be that she's still sleeping with him. Her direct quote:
"Doesn't he know it's break-up sex, not make-up sex?"
It makes my recent dramas (which I spent much time sharing with T) seem benign and functional.