yeah, it's been a while

you thought i forgot all about this blog, didn't you? (i say this like anyone is reading it)

about five blocks away from work, this woman appeared from one of the parking lots. she was wearing a nice grey suit, cute shoes, and she looked pretty put together. but she had a big red leather tote bag over one arm, and a laptop case on the other. a cup of coffee in one hand, which she couldn't drink without disrupting the balance of the bags. and a cell phone glued to her ear. she could have at least waited to have the coffee until she got to work, couldn't she?

speaking of cell phones, last night i was at dinner with friends, and across from us was a couple on a date. or maybe just going out to dinner. whatever. regardless, she was on her cell phone for the entire time that we were there. if i was the guy, i would have left.

this is like when sheri and i were in miami, and near a table of four women, ALL of whom were on the phone during the entire dinner. dude, you're out to dinner with three of your friends. who else is so important that you have to be on the phone the whole time?

i could go on about cell phones for a while. i'll stop now.

i haven't written anything that wasn't email or for work for more than a month now. maybe i thought of this blog because i'm feeling the need to put words down just for me. even though i haven't written for a while, i can feel the words lurking around in my head. just... there. not even in scenes. just random ideas and sentences and snippets of conversations. they'll become scenes someday soon, i hope. i've been spending some time reading old work, hoping that these random ideas will gel into something when i remember who the heck my characters are.