for the last seven years, i have been an active stalker of girls i have crushes on. sometimes i follow them around. sometimes i do detective work and find out all about them. i have never done anything bad or mean to the girls i worship. i just like to know all about them.

it started in junior high school. i was in love with a girl named jennifer anderson, and she was my only reason for being alive. jennifer was a year older than me, so we never really had any classes together, but one time we had a conversation about my math teacher, because she had him the year before and she overheard me mumbling my schedule to myself as i tried to memorize it. she said "he's a fucker." it was beautiful.

so i started keeping track of her classes, her boyfriends, her locker combination, her social security number (actually, i don't even think she knew this)... eventually she spurned me and her parents called my parents and i had to stop, but the foundation was laid for life-long career.

but those days were so sophomoric and care free. now stalking has really become a serious part of my life. this home page has been created as a tribute and temple to the women i love and have loved.

annie works at track 5, which is where i go to buy cds here in deadwood. she has the coolest taste in music. she listens to all the same things i listen to. well, she does now that i started listening to the things she listens to. she buys one cd every week, and never buys more because she likes to listen to the new one for the rest of the week; of course, she still listens to her other ones, but she knows if she bought more than one cd each week, she wouldn't really be able to keep up with herself. i wish i had that kind of discipline, but, honestly, sometimes i buy like five or six cds in one week, and then i have to dig up change from the couch cushions to eat.

besides her music, which rocks, annie is into all sorts of other cool stuff. she goes to plays a lot, which is something i always wished i was cultured enough to do, but i got bored really fast the two times i went to see plays, so i stopped going. even though deadwood is lame, we have a pretty good local theatre scene, or at least that's what annie said when she was talking to her friend jacob at work the other day. she usually goes to sunday matinees because they are cheaper and annie is trying to pay her way through college.

about college, annie is getting a degree in art history, which i can't imagine will be very useful, but i'll bet annie can make anything out of nothing, so even if it's nothing she'll do fine. she has lots of artwork in her apartment, too. annie likes monet and van gogh a lot. there are other ones but they are harder for me to remember because i've never heard of them.

annie doesn't work at track 5 anymore. she has a new job now at an ice cream shop, which i think is much cooler, because i can go in and get ice cream, which i like. i usually get chocolate. some people say i'm boring, but one time annie told the guy she works with (drew) that she doesn't really get all these "hip new flavors that don't even taste like ice cream." man, she's so incredible.

anyway, feel free to jump on the bandwagon and send me mail. the address is below, and i usually check it every week or two. speaking of e-mail, i got a message a while back from someone who said there is another guy named gordon beech and that he sells condominiums in england. i don't think it's very likely that we're related, since no one from my family has ever left deadwood, as far as i know, and i can't imagine any englishman in his right mind ever came here and stayed.

man, i can't wait till i get up the nerve to ask her out. it's gonna be so sweet.