A creepy crazy thing i heard (but only kindof realated)

I don't watch the news much so i don't know if this is, like, a really big story or something but i just heard about it the other day when i was in the waiting room at the drs office. i was doing some homework somewhat listening to the news when this crazy story got my attention... and really creeped me out a lot:

this girl was talking to this boy on her myspace page. they had an argument over the internet that ended up with the girl's suicide. The girl had had a background in depression but apparently this was, like, the last straw. The story was a terrible one when it happened, obviously, but it got even worse just about a week ago when they found out the boy she was fighting with didn't really exist at all. He was just a false identity created by some 40 year old housewife. What makes it even creepier is, at im not sure if this is entirely true because i was only half-listening, the woman may have been trying to avenge her own child's hurt feelings left over from mean comments written by this girl on his myspace page... or something like that at least. No one knows how to punish the woman for the crime (or if it is even a crime at all for that matter) because the internet is so new there are not set laws about what is right and not right,who you can be and who you can't. The anchor woman said it is the modern-day "frontier." And we're all cowboys trying to figure out what's right, to fight the so-called bad guys, and in the meantime have a little creative fun.

i know this is slightly unrealated, but its weird, huh? worse then weird, its really really horrible.

question

Is it too much to have Sam babysitting Xalex (Reul's little brother's online friend) considering Sam and Reul meet online as well? I've been working on all of this stuff with Sam and Xalex but now I think it might be too coincidental that these four are as connected as they are. Maybe I should give Xalex another babysitter (Gretchen, for example)? Once I figure this out, I'll post the first third of the play for everyone to read. Questions like these can stump me for days...

the taste of sunlight when it's really freakin cold outside

Brrrrrrrrrr! I just came back from a road trip to Florida to spend the holidays with family (a ton of them) and after walking around in flip-flops for 10 days, I'm now a very chilly snowman here in Chicago! While I'm having a hard time adjusting to this weather again, one thing I'm incredibly grateful for is that the sun is bright... and it actually feels brighter here than it did in the sunshine state as it bounces off all of this snow.

It's so bright, I can almost taste it. You know what I'm talking about? Bright sun, mixed with piercing cold air -- when you breathe in, it sort of sits on your tongue for a second like an icicle and then it melts down your throat to swim around in your insides for a moment and warm you all the way through...? It's incredibly momentary, like the smell of rain or the sound of stars and you don't get to experience it that often, but when you do, it feels.... real. Like the physical world has perfectly blended with all the other dimensions and for an instant there is synchronicity, light from the inside out.

Have you had this sensation? What are your thoughts on sunlight in winter? In case, you haven't guessed it yet, I'm thinking that the title of this third play is going to involve the Taste of Sunlight... so we might as well start riffing.

Thanks to all who participated in the workshop in December. Lots of good energy and ideas were stirred up and I'm newly powered to weave together this play. You're going to be hearing from me on here often now, so I hope you'll read and respond often too.

Happy 2008!