AUTHOR'S NOTE! (sorry!)
Hey to all of you wonderful reviewers out there! I love you all! I just want to warn you of a period of wait that you may be having to experience for a while, because of my lack of creativity.
Why do I have a lack of creativity, you ask? Well, I found out on Monday or Tuesday that one of my best friends had suffered a loss. His dad had committed suicide. So every time I try to think, I am drowned in such awful and sorrowful thoughts. What makes it worse, though, is that my friend and his brother(s?) had moved back to the states at the end of last school year (03-04) to live with their mom, and his dad had stayed here. sigh It was a big shocker, I'll let you know. I always felt sorry for those on the local news who always had loss loved ones or friends because of murder, or car crashes, or suicide, but I had always thought that I was a lucky one. My dad may be in Baghdad for another eight months, but he is extremely safe. He's the "in between-man" that all the important people go to when they arrive in the country when they want to talk to other important people. So I thought I was lucky to have him there and safe. And I had thought I was a lucky one, since all of my friends are well off and live in happy families.
But life is full of surprises, and I guess that this is just one of them. No one ever said that it would be pleasant. The dad's memorial service is today (Thursday, September 2, 2004), and I'm going, but I don't know...if you follow me. I didn't exactly know the dad personally, but I still knew him, and it still shocks me that he did such a thing...
Well, just wanted to let you all know that I may not be writing ANYTHING for quite a while. I just posted a prologue to a new story that I wrote in one of my notebooks before I found out, so you could read that. But otherwise, I just can't think.
So I'll see you all later, and I hope that none of you ever have to go through knowing that one that you cared about did such a thing.
PHE
