my timing always sucks

My friend UnpaidMermaid is leaving Australia with her family in a couple of weeks. She was in my writing class this semester and is one of the best friends I've made in Canberra (felt like we would be friends a long time, you know?). I got to hang out with her for a paltry few months and met her kids and husband only three times. Why is it that anyone totally cool that I love hanging out with has to be thousands of miles away. Is the universe just toying with me?

If I finally fall in love again one day I fully expect him to tell me he's booked on a space flight to some planet 13 light years away. :)