about 10 years or so ago, in that interesting period of fandom, i knew a guy in kuwait. i had met him along with many friends i still talk to now, on IRC. another person who we both knew ended up going to kuwait to visit him, they were “dating” until all this drama came up – the whole muslim arranged marriage thing. there was alot of other stuff that happened that i don’t really remember anymore. then a few years ago there was a vh1 mj fan special and i knew the people on the show. one of them was this woman who had dated the guy in kuwait. i remember emailing her after all this time to see how she was and if she ever heard from him but she didn’t.

watching the sept 11th shows on cbc and i remembered him. i ended up finding her website, and her story about visiting him and got his name – Khalid Matar. There are probably thousands of ppl with that name, but nothing really comes up on the web for someone who could actually be him. wouldn’t it have been terrible if he had been on one of the planes? i can’t remember if he had ever come here to visit her, or if he had ever been here, but in his very poor english it never seemed as if he hated the US haha.

watching all this stuff about intelligence, makes me think about being a spy and how instead of needing to know russian, you’d need to know arabic. i wonder if aunt trudy could get a job with the cia…she knows 6 languages including arabic and lived in saudi arabia for years.