[frangipanis]

Having had time to know you felt a genuine connection with her, that would be ideal if she feels the same way. Unless she's now in a relationship, since you've already broken the ice with her, she should find it easy to either accept or politely decline your offer. If she accepts, then I imagine she's genuinely interested in you. As 450donn suggested, just keep it simple.

[N0help4u]

But sometimes I at least wonder what that person is up too from time to time and I don't feel like there is any harm in platonically asking someone how life is treating them.

Exactly why I like having myspace, Yahoo & Google Instant Messaging, email, etc...
Like if anybody wants to find me all they have to do is type N0help4u or sapphire630 in the search engine or go to my website.
You know they are right there at a touch of the keyboard unless they completely quit using it.

[asking]

Is "timing" code for something? What does it mean for something to not work out due to timing?

Missing something...

[N0help4u]

It usually means he is busy going his direction with his life and her busy direction with her life is making it impossible to get together because they are going two different directions.
Often that in itself really means ''NOT meant for each other''

[brkfstatiffs]

Is "timing" code for something? What does it mean for something to not work out due to timing?

Missing something...

It means that things were going great and then one day he decided he didn't want to be in a relationship even though he still really liked me. He just got out of grad school, mom going through a divorce... to my knowledge had some crap going on and felt he couldn't be in a healthy relationship and it wouldn't be fair to me if he tried.

[brkfstatiffs]

I guess I sum that up as "timing" because had things been in a better flow for him, I think things would have turned out diffferent