I woke up yesterday at 7AM and moped my way to the kitchen to indulge in low fat yogurt like I have routinely done so for the past week. I managed to drag myself back to the couch, opened up Jeremy's laptop to check my emails. A really handsome guy named Josh Stockham responded to my craigs list ad looking for friends. He seems sweet and genuine. We've written each other a few times and exchanged numbers through email. I decided to send him a text message to say hi.


I had a decent work day yesterday. It was very long, but decent. You'll almost never catch me smoking a cigarette by myself, let alone a whole cigarette. Perhaps it's true to what they say about it's the oral fixation that helps with the stress. I ended up smoking three cigarettes within one hour at work. Too many things to think about: work, breakup, moving again next month and today's surgery.


April pulled me off the phone for two hours for mentoring. Two hours off the phone was awesome! While half listening to Chuck's calls for feedback and talking about men with Mandy, I received a text message from Mr. Stockham. ''Hey how’s it going Billy? Just got a new phone. didn't get your text 'till bout five minutes ago.'' We exchanged over 4 hours worth of text messages, getting to know each other as well as you possibly can over text messages. It turns out this hopeless romantic is also a Cancer. We both collect shot glasses. We both have the same favorite song, ''Strange Fruit'' by Billie Holliday. We both finish each other's thoughts and sentences.


After 4 hours of text message marathon we spontaneously decided to hang out. He promptly picked me up after I got home from work. We drove all around town just to talk and get to know each other. He took me to the hills of Tramway to look down on the beautiful lit city. It's no New York, but it did the trick. He then took me to Old Town because I said I've never been and showed me around. We then sat at the park and talked forever. He put his scarf and jacket around me because I was being hard headed and won’t admit that I was cold. We ended up making out. He was sweet and such a gentleman. He was concerned if I was ok with the temperature and if he was keeping me late all night. We then did something spontaneous and random. We went to get donuts when they first opened at Dunkin' Donuts. We shared one Boston donut (he thought it was call a Bismarck lol). Mmmm... I love the cream filling. He then took me home at 5AM. Wow! A 7 hour date. It was amazing. At least I think it was a date. We synchronized our calendars to have sushi at Mr. Sushi on Sunday at 6PM. I can't wait.


I slept in 'till 11AM this morning. I called Rasheada to confess that I was hiding my relationship and cancer issues from her and like Timineri and my sister, Sheada said I was silly to think I needed to go through it alone. I also did tell her about Josh.


On the other side of the fence, I am now sitting at the doctor's office to get surgery for skin cancer. I have condyloma. After surgery I'm going over to Christopher's house to get the rest of my belongings. I just want to get the rest of my things so we can start moving towards our own destination.