Yeah. I just got a note from him telling me of his great news- that he won the Nobel Prize. Seriously! I know, I'm totally stoked for him. It's a prize, you know? Prizes are, like, good. I mean, you probably didn't know yet because he didn't e-mail you personally like he did me. So don't feel bad. It's just that he's pretty private. He doesn't share a lot about himself with other people. He's just not a real people person.

But he and I--we're tight like that.

He tells me all kinds of things. Stuff he's working on. Places he's going. Places he's been. He talks a lot about the Earth and global warming, but you guys, seriously and I'm not even kidding-- the subtext is always so strong.

The guy wants me.

Gawd it's so obvious. I mean, like, you know how when a guy writes to you out of the blue and he's all, "ME ME ME" and like, "Oh, I'm single handedly saving the world" and like "Oh, we're the only industrialized nation besides China who didn't sign Kyoto" and like "Oh, I won the Nobel Prize," you KNOW the guy must like you.

Take today's note. It starts out all, "I would like to share with you..." I KNOW!! SERIOUSLY!! I mean, that is so intense! SHARE. So personal. He could have said, "I want to tell you this super important thing" or whatever, but he didn't. He said SHARE. That means something, right? It so does.

It screams I WANT YOU.

And it's cool and all, but it's also kind of sad. I really, really think he's been damaged in his past, like emotionally, because he drops all these hints, you know, like the wanting to SHARE with me thing, but then he doesn't talk a whole lot about personal stuff. Like when I told him about my mom's cancer? Not a peep. Not even a response to my six and a half page e-mail detailing her surgery and her drains and the chemo and stuff. I didn't even mention the hair part. I just think he's so emotionally damaged like from his past, that it was too hard for him to bear. I mean because his sister died of cancer. Or something. I think.

Anyway, the guy totally wants me. You can tell by the way he almost always mentions his wife. Like "Tipper and I want to thank so and so," or "Tipper and I went to blah blah blah." Duh. SOOOOO trying to make me jealous. It's so obvious. And THEN he asks for money for something to like cover up why he is writing and stuff. He might as well just be screaming "BE WITH ME." It's cute and all, but... truthfully? It's getting kind of annoying.

And I so totally have a boyfriend.

Anyway. Al told me he won the Nobel Prize. Thought I should pass it on in case you see him. Tell him congratulations or whatever. Apparently it's like some big deal.