honestly james' boundary between friends and lovers is something that is forever blurry and he doesn't care to understand, so he'd definitely feel the same way about wanting to be friends now! that year would work for me and reading through rocko's bio it's pretty funny because james is really easy going as a roommate so even if it was his place that rocko was crashing in while he figured out his living arrangement, if he was like, "no the couch should go over here." james would just be like, "alright! let's move it!" but then might have drove him crazy when james showed up with a random person at 2 am like, "oh this is logan and he's going to teach me how to make a perfect poached egg"