obsession. the saga

the following is the obsession serial that i sent to hunter one day in 9 different parts. i'm posting it here so i don't lose it.

part 1:

when i lived in germany i one day became obsessed with this acquaintance of mine.
i met him in january. for about a month i only ever referred to him as my acquaintance. then one day it just kind of turned the other direction.

it got so bad that i would rate my day based on whether or not i saw him, if i talked to him, who started the conversation, how long we talked, etc.

my obsession part 2

well, at one point it had been raining for like...a month straight. and i only saw him when the sun was shining, while he was skateboarding. so that really sucked.

but then i went on vacation and i was coming back on the train the weather was nice and i thought to myself "maybe when i get off the train my obsession will be skateboarding across the street from the station and as i walk out he'll see me and suddenly i'll be drop-dead gorgeous in his eyes and he'll say 'ohmygod, lisa, i'm in love with you. i want you to run away with me.'

but just like i only saw him when it was nice out, i also only saw him during day light hours, and my train was delayed two hours and it was dark when my train got in.

my obsession, part 3

so, my train gets delayed. i wait around and meet some girlfriends of mine that are coming in that night too. then we went to their apartment behind the train station, changed our clothes and got ready to go out.


as we came back down infront of the station, around midnight, we looked up an a huge, ginormous, most amazing shooting star went through the sky. it was incredible. like a huge ball of fire. we started screaming and jumping up and down and hugging each other. it was so amazing.

then i was like "ohmygod, make a wish!" so we all shut up for a second, made our wishes and started jumping around again.

cedar said to me "i bet i know what you wished for"
i said "i bet you know too"

now, my wish was that my obsession would appear out of the middle of nowhere, i'd be drop dead gorgeous in his eyes...blah blah blah.

so just at that moment cedar says to me "ohmygod, lisa, turn around."

i turn around and look down the desolate street and see the street lamps leaving pools of light surrounded by darkness. and my obsession is walking into a pool of light. i was stunned. i just started walking towards him.

my obsession, part 4:

so i get to him and i told him all about the shooting star and he never said all those things about falling in love and running away, but he did hang out with us on the curb infront of the post office talking for 3 hours. i have pictures.

part 5

so, then the next time i see him he says, "hey i want to show you something."

he goes to his bag, and pulls out a package of skateboard wheels and tosses them to me. i look at them. they're called "shooting stars"
i look at his skateboard. thats what his old wheels were. i almost fainted.

i said "i want one"
but he wouldn't give me one because he needed all four.

part 6

before i left germany i ran into him one day and he returned a comic book i had lent him.

i opened up the cover and inside was a piece of paper with his address on it, and a photo copy of one of the skateboard wheels.

part 7

after i came back to america we kept in touch. we wrote letters back and forth every other week.

i sent him a picture of me making out with a statue in berlin, because he had moved there.

one day, months after i'd returned i get a letter that says: "i love this picture you sent me. i have it up on my wall in my apartment. the other day a friend of mine was over and saw it and he said "who is that?" i said "that is my really really cool american friend lisa" he said "did you have anything with her?" i said "no" he said "why not?"...do you know the answer to this?"

i wrote back and was like "you had a girlfriend."

part 8

so, then a couple of weeks later he calls me on the phone. he says "lisa. listen. there's a chance that i could be in nyc next week or the week after."

i said "if you go next week i'll be on spring break and i can meet you."

he said "ok. i'll call you this weekend."

on sunday he called me and said "i'll be there wednesday."

he flew to nyc, took a bus to albany, got in around midnight. the next morning we went back to the city. we spent thursday, and friday in the city. saturday i had to go back to albany. sunday he flew back to germany.

part 9

that is pretty much the extent of my obsession story. he has been here to visit me in austin. and stayed with my best friend twice in nyc. last summer his girlfriend lived with my best friend. this spring he lived with her. my friends have stayed with him in berlin. blahblahblah. i'm not necessarily obsessed with him anymore. but only because he is a tangible part of my life now. he's still awesome and obsession worthy.