counties fellow teachers, other people who are involved in education and health care activism, maybe a cousin from louisiana who moved to california to escape from the big crazy family she has back in crowley, an ex or fling from berkeley for something, people who will indulge her endless chatter about her favorite tv shows, other dog parents, people she might have met while working at her mom's paralegal office or the endless days she spent with her dad in the silicon valley circuit when she was a kid