I've been away...
...at work on a secret...project.
It's nice to know I've been missed by someone, anyway. Woefully, I'm not in touch with Donnette anymore. She is a single mom now, with a young daughter, Aislinn, and she works with computers. I came to know her because of her collaborations with her ex-lover, Steve Kilbey, under the name Hex. (Have you heard Hex? It's really great stuff.) When she decided she wanted to move on and away from things that reminded her of Steve, unfortunately, I fell by the wayside, too. She's a very sweet lady, though. The last I'd heard was that she'd returned to school to study psychology.
I love The Real Sheila. I know that Erica's Word has a special place in Donnette's heart.
It's good that you don't seem to look down on Donnette. A lot of Game Theory/Loud Family/Scott Miller fans don't think very kindly of her because she ended her relationship of many years with Scott Miller to be with Steve Kilbey. In all honesty, I would have, too:
Sigh. Steve was so devilishly dreamy...
Anyway, you can see more stuff about Donnette here:
http://church.tristesse.com/dthayer/ and if you follow the link at the very bottom of the page you can learn about Steve Kilbey and The Church, too, which is something I always recommend.