another conversation with Rob... Me: hello!
Rob: hi.
Me: how do you fare this evening?
Rob: not very good.
Me: why?
Me: what's the matter?
Rob: a friend of mine committed suicide.
Me: oh god
Rob: he wasnt too close of a friend.
Rob: but i wouldve liked to have him around for a few more years.
Me: I'm so sorry.
Rob: its alrite.
Rob: im better now than i was a couple hours ago.
Me: (((hugs)))
Rob: eh.
Rob: i dont think i ever told you about him.
Me: I don't know that you did
Rob: he was a great guy.
Rob: i feel bad for not calling him more.
Rob: he had the headstones of the cemetery across the street from his house memorized.
Rob: all 500+ of them.
Rob: and knew them all.
Rob: he was just a well oiled machine.
Rob: and everyone in the neighborhood hated him because he was 'creepy.'
Rob: which was a bit true.
Rob: we were going to write a book about all the people in the cemeteries.
Rob: short poems about each one.
Rob: based on what he knew about them.
Me: like a spoon river type of thing?
Rob: exactly.
Rob: not many people have heard about it.
Rob: hopefully his mother can find all of his records.
Rob: hopefully he did in fact write them all down.
Rob: because the only thing that is keeping me from feeling entirely terrible.
Rob: is the hope that i can compile it all and write the book.
Rob: he had two hearses.
Rob: and im guessing he killed himself in one of them.
Rob: its just amazing how perfectly it fell together.
Rob: he loved cars and the cemetery.
Rob: and he ran his car in the garage.
Rob: and changed his mind at the last minute.
Rob: his grandparents found him laying on the front steps.
Rob: and now he is buried in his cemetery.
Rob: its just all too perfect.
Rob: on christmas day, even.
Rob: im not really sad.
Rob: im just dissappointed.
Rob: that thats the way it had to happen.
Rob: and that he didnt call me.
Rob: to say goodbye.
Me: if he had called, wouldn't you have convinced him out of it?
Rob: probably.
Rob: or if i couldnt convince him.
Rob: id at least tell him to leave me things.
Rob: the records, the expectation that i would take over cleaning the cemetery for him.
Me: maybe he still would have wanted you to do that
Rob: im not going to be able to as much as him.
Rob: because it is like half an hour away.
Rob: im too tense.
Rob: i dont know.
Rob: thank you for talking at least.
Me: god.. Rob. I'm so sorry. I just wish I knew what to say.
Rob: its fine.
Rob: i mean.
Rob: im going to miss him.
Rob: but im more angry that more people didnt know him to begin with.
Rob: so lets talk about something else.
Rob: how is the boy front looking for you?
Rob: or is that a bad question?
Me: *laughs* always a terrible situation for me. I'm just getting so flustered. but. hehe
Me: oh well
Rob: i have no girl front.
Me: woot! go us!
Rob: my friend andrea came over and we laid in bed all day.
Rob: thats about it.
Rob: and it was entirely innocent.
Rob: i fell asleep.
Me: it beats doing things you don't want to
Rob: yeah.
Rob: it is getting to the point though that im feeling very inexeperienced.
Me: if you want experience. anyone can show you that. if that was what you wanted. but they say experience doesn't matter in the eyes of love.
Rob: yeah.
Rob: i mean. i understand all of that.
Rob: and preach preach preach it.
Rob: im just lonely and hormonal.
Rob: hah.
Me: ;-) that's why god invented masturbation. :-D O:-)
Me: but I know what you mean.
Rob: yeah. all thats getting boring.
Rob: and routine.
Me: *laugh* masturbation IS boring.
Rob: and im bored way too often.
Me: boredom is the root of all evil
Rob: idle hands do the devils work.
Rob: hah.
Me: isn't that some puritan thing?
Rob: yeah
Rob: but it was just very relevant.
Me: *laugh*
Rob: well.
Rob: im going to go try to sleep i guess.
Rob: thank you for cheering me up.
Rob: you always do a good job.
Me: I feel like I haven't done anything. and if I did, I haven't done enough. you should IM me more often.
Me: (((hugs))) sleep well.
Rob: goodnite, dearest.
Rob signed off at 2:32:01 AM.
He does confuse me so! I had no idea what to say... so I barely said anything at all. I'm still in shock... I can't imagine how he feels.
Current Mood:
shockedCurrent Music: Goo Goo Dolls 'Dizzy up the Girl' CD