this is Suzy, Tom's fiancee. I am sitting on his bed, hacking his melo while waiting for him to get home to me.

Babe, you left at 4 am and i haven't been able to go back to sleep. I miss your body next to mine, and i miss your lips kissing my shoulders, my neck, my cheek. Two more hours and you'll be back home with me (i hope). I love you so much! You are too good to me. Oh and sorry you went to work all tired and such, i couldnt help myself :P

Forever yours,
Suzy

I always think of the best things to write when I'm not at my computer.

Impatience may be appropriate at this time.

I got that fortune a couple weeks ago when I got Chinese food with Juby. What the fortune writer left out is that side effects of impatience may include lonliness, isolation, and depression.

9 more days, 9 more days, 9 more days...

The countdown is the life support keeping my heart beating.

You know what else is appropriate at this time? Ben & Jerry's Brownie Batter. Drown, sorrows, drown.

Currently listening to "Perfect Girl" by Sarah McLachlan.

You want to be distracted, and you have been since you went back.

I don't want to be distracted, and I don't want you to be distracted either.

First of all, welcome. =)

Now, I understand that most of you may be utterly bored and touring because you have nothing else to do. I have no problem with that. All visitors are welcome here. Feel free to poke around as much as you want.

However, if you just leave me a comment that says "hello" or "touring" or anything else to that effect, don't expect a response. That's great that you're touring. But if you want to talk to me, please have something to say first, something that could start a conversation. The hit counter tells me people were here. I don't really want my guestbook full of pointless messages.

Thank you all in advance, and again, welcome!

I've recently become aware that I'm a sucker for a good story; so much, in fact, that I've decided to choose a career path that could end up dedicating my life to listening to people talk. It doesn't matter what it's about. As long as it's told well, you'll have my attention. Take the NBC hit Heroes, for example. I never liked comic books or superheroes (except for Batman) because the over-the-top ridiculousness of superpowers turns me off to the whole thing. And I reserved a special kind of hatred for TV dramas. But after watching a few episodes with Michelle, I was hooked. Why? Exceptional storytelling.

I listen to mass amounts of public radio, sometimes for hours on end. Today, I got home from work at 10:30 am and have spent most of my time since then catching up on my backlogged NPR podcasts. It's definitely not just for the news. I could get news anywhere. It's the stories that hooked me on public radio. My two most listened podcasts are Chicago Public Radio's world-famous show This American Life, and American Public Radio's The Story. It's just ordinary people telling extraordinary stories for an hour at a time. I can't get enough.

Everyone's got stories just waiting to be told. Some people don't think they do, but they're there. Your life experiences make you who you are. Any event that has had an effect on your life in any way, no matter how small, has the potential to be an amazing story.

That's why I'm so facinated by stories, talk radio, this community...dysfunctional as it may be sometimes. I'm facinated by human behavior and people's personalities and what makes people act the way they do. Telling stories is how we relate that to other people; how, for a brief moment, we can be inside someone else's head and see the world the way they do. A good story can really give you a shot of perspective.

Everyone has a story. What's yours?

Currently listening to This American Life #368: "Who Do You Think You Are?"