A few excerpts from an email to a good friend of mine that let in on what's going on in my life:

"Can I confess something?...I have watched "Sleepless in Seattle" 4 times in the past 2 days. Before I go to bed and when I get up, it's all I want to do. Why do I tell you this? Because as I sat here racking my brain, for things I should report to you about my life, I realized that I have an unhealthy obsession with Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks films. I'm not sure why, but I feel better after watching them, after spending an hour anticipating whether or not they will fall in love in whatever movie it is. It's pitiful."

"I am working at The Waterfront Coffee Company between Sahib and Rory's Pub in Edmonds and occasionally, I take a shift at good ol Coffee Power. I walk a lot and sometimes while i'm walking i'll stop and pick daisies to make a chain or pick one of those weeds that you blow on and send a million fuzzy particles into the air while you make a wish. I read and write cosntantly. I swim and fall asleep on the beach. Most of my friends are over the age of 50 or under the age of 10. In June, as you know, Kiersten and I take off, which i'm very much looking forward to and will be completely broke. Even now, I have no car, no bedroom not even my own bed...but the silver lining is that I really don't feel like i'm missing anything. I don't know, maybe i'm growing up. I've been thinking a lot about the direction my life is going and what I really want to put energy into and i'm trying (it's a life-long struggle) to live in such a way that i'm not as selfish as I have been or most of the world is. I've been thinking quite a lot about South Africa and how one day I would like to live there. While I was gone I met quite a few South Africans and fell in love with everything I learned about the nation, and with every thing i hear, i become more hungry to go there, to swim with dolphins, to learn about apartheid, to ride ostriches, to work in orphanages, to spend nights in capetown and so much more. i'm not sure, you never know where things will take you, but it's a new dream of mine that I hope will some day become reality.So to answer your question, overall I am good. Even in Edmonds I am still finding things to be passionate about, new people, new smiles, new dreams, beautiful pink skys, old friends, delicious fish, long walks and a constant smell of coffee."