Playing Phone Tag When You’re Always It

A frustration known to every reporter are the unrequited messages we leave. The first call seems positive and promising, building you up to a comfortable position of confidence that the person on the other line really will call you back and everything will continue along peachy. But truth be told, you are not a priority to them. A day passes. You call again. Leave a message. No response. Redial on day 3. Still no response. The question to the reporter then becomes, do I leave one more voice mail, or bag it?

Make the phone call.

As it were, I’m still waiting for it ring.

My personal progress on this project has been a bit like a beginner driving manual. I was overly excited to jump in the driver’s seat and rev the engine, planning out everywhere across the map I would drive to. But you can’t go everywhere at once. If I’ve learned just one thing from this experience, it’s to calm down and dig your nose in one hole at a time.

Last week I interviewed a marine who is asexual. Nice guy and had a very interesting perspective on sex and being asexual (on a spectrum, lacking an interest in sex). I’m also in contact with a repossession man and, what I really hope works out, a contact at Family Promise. Family Promise is an organization that “provides meals, a homelike setting, emotional support and a full range of social, economic, and educational services.” – http://www.familypromiseaz.org. They seem really anxious to let the situations of these people be known. I should know by tomorrow how this will pan out.

This weekend I’m interviewing couples of various ages about sex, their perception of it, the role it plays and how it’s changed through the ages.

The deadline for our stories is fast approaching!