Pictures, Healing, and Rocks.

Tuesday, Jun. 17, 2003 - 10:42 p.m.

The other woman who was victimized by the Erasure Impostor surprised the daylights out of me last night. We were in IMs, and she happened to mention that Illinois Andy sent her some scanned photos that he had of the two of them, and of him playing his synthesizers. "Would you like to see what he looks like?" she asked. "Yes, Please..." I said.

I still have those dreams where I'm looking for him and can't find him. I want those dreams to stop.

So she forwarded the email to me, and also to Utah Paul.

And I finally saw what Andrew Ivan Clarke Bell really looks like. In the past, he sent pictures to me of the Andy Bell who sings for Erasure, and claimed in those emails that they were pictures of himself -- which, of course, has no basis in fact that the other woman or I have ever been able to discern.

The bad news is -- he's actually kind of cute.

He should be on stage, playing the Artful Dodger in a production of OLIVER. He has blue eyes and strawberry blonde hair, pale skin, and the other woman told me he's shorter than she is -- and she's 5'4".

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Something else that's happening, that I wish were not, is that there's somebody on AOL who is interacting with Illinois Andy, believing with all of her heart that it's the Andy Bell who sings for Erasure. She thinks she has a psychic connection with him, and with 'Vince', and although she's never met me -- she thinks my efforts to tell the truth about Illinois Andy are a load of crap.

In short, she sounds like I did about a year ago.

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In other news, my beloved husband John is away right now, hard at work preparing for the trade show that's coming up this weekend. I could not go over with him to assist with the preparation, but he says it's going better than expected. Due to my allergies being in high gear and me sorta kinda fried from the Benadryl, he's excused me from active duty until the show itself.

My darling Jamie received his mileage check AND a settlement check from his previous employer both in the same day -- Oooh! He's a hundredaire! He IMed me this afternoon to tell me a package is in the mail to me. :) I can't wait to see what's in it!

More later, maybe.

Also, don't forget: If you want to be on my list of people who can AIM with me? Send me an email with your particulars, so I can add your AIM handle to my Buddy List.

And finally -- the news is featuring a story about the bishop in Phoenix who fled the scene of a hit-and-run accident in which a pedestrian was killed. The license plate number was traced to the bishop's car, which had a caved-in windshield. According to court documents, Bishop O'Brien told police he thought he had hit a dog or a cat or that someone had thrown a rock at his vehicle.

Well, this is certainly a possibility, isn't it? After all, everybody knows Phoenix is world famous for its unusually high number of sightings of flying two-hundred-pound cat-shaped rocks...

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