  Have you ever had a friend that, after awhile, you couldn't figure out why they were your friend? Not so much that you don't like him or her, but that you can't see why him or her bothers hanging out with you, when they don't seem to respect or care about anything you say or think. I think the phrase "absence makes the heart grow fonder" can apply to friendships just as easily as to other relationships. It can be very easy to take people for granted, I know I have in the past, but I also think I'm especially easy to take for granted because I'm generally very easy-going and non-confrontational.
It's dumb to purposely avoid people you consider a friend, but at the same time it's depressing to think that a friend finds nothing you say even remotely interesting. On the other hand, maybe that's why you have good friends. You're supposed to be able to take them for granted sometimes, to know that they'll be there for you even when you're focus is somewhere completely different. It may be only when it becomes an established trend that it's time to seriously question the friendship.
I know some people who have stuck by their "friend" even when that friend was anything but (and for a long time, too) simply because they had such a long history. But just giving someone space isn't "questioning" the friendship, so maybe that's a positive first step. It's not a test to see if they'll notice (because you shouldn't "test" your friends like that) but rather breathing room that probably both people need.
Perhaps I just hate Tuesdays. ;-) Lots of bad mood going around, in school and out. At least it's sunny out again, that 4 or 5 hours of rain and wind yesterday was really scary. Actually it wasn't, but the almost constant stream of ambulances past my apartment to the hospital was a little bit disconcerting. Damn Californians couldn't drive in the rain if their lives depended on it. And guess what? Sometimes it does. 
