Wear Clean Draws  (because there’s 5 million ways to kill a ceo)

i finally got my software installed to retrieve my photos off my new camera! and now I’m missing K — the guy I’ve been working with for over two years now. He’s back in India, for the third time this year, all related to finding a wife and getting married. long story that, but seeing his impish smile reminds me of how much i miss him.

K kneels and smiles

he called me from India about 17 times yesterday — my ringer was switched off. i finally got a bunch of frantic email. part of the reason why he had to go back, after getting married, is that he hadn’t had time to take care of whatever it is you have to take care of when you’re not a green card holder and not a u.s. citizen. god. he had dotted all his i’s and crossed all his t’s and he still ended up feeling as if he were trying to scam someone, some kind of guilty party, when all he is is a talented guy who wants to work and live in the u.s. so, i had to write up this thing about what his current projects are, future projects, and why he is crucial to them. WTF?

anyway, this is the first photo I took of k. i was working, and K and L were working across cewb space. i turned around and saw k, looking like “The Thinker” staring up at the heavens or false ceiling as it were, looking as if he were working out a serious, serious problem. L, working away.

The one above, of K kneeling? The story behind that is this: the guy comes over to your desk to help. And he’s so fast with his hands and his thinking, that no one moves fast enough. He’s just itching to take over and do it all faster. Eventually, this means that his body keeps inching you out, all 98 lbs of him, till you move your chair and next thing, he’s kneeling on the floor, to into to it to get a chair and be comfortable. For the longest time, when it was just me and him, I would crack jokes whenever someone walked by and saw him kneeling at my desk. “Oh, yeah. Some reason the guy needs to kneel before me like this.” ha.

there are about 300 photos and I don’t have decent photo editing software installed yet, so it’s slow going. I’ll probably crawl through what I have and post random shots of whatever piques my fancy in an exercise in major belly button lint extraction!

But oooo, lookee! Sunset from when we went to Ocracoke Island! isn’t that gorgeous? I know, I know. You have seen one million and one photos of sunsets from people’s vacation photos. :)

Totally unique and special pic of a sunset because no one has ever snapped photos of sunsents on vacation!

Because no one has snapped photos of a sky after the sun has dipped below the horizon, mesmerized by the golden orange red and the striations of blue sky and whisps of white clouds

In case anyone worried, there is also a photo I snapped as R grimaced, partly with feelings of misery brought on by the flu — he totally sniffed and sneezed and hacked away during breakfast and got annoyed at the chatty waitress who interrupted a million times — but also partly because I think it thought it corny. And he was right. Like the world needs a photo of a diner that’s attempting to send off the appearance of being old and established silver roadside diner, but is much too shiney and lacking in ancient turquoise seating and stainless covered in grime to be a real diner from days of yore. I know. My mother worked at those kinds of diners for years and I spent a good part of my childhood going out to eat at them when granny wanted to have a treat.

Mel's complete with bad decorating attempts at using anything and everything designed to make it look quaint and kitchsy and somehow totally missing the effect of quaint and kitschy!

OK. This, I’m sorry, is utterly awesome. it’s one of the first photos of the ocean I snapped from my third floor deck at the house we rented. That’s the neighbor’s roof, right next door, that is the freakin’ ocean — with waves! Right there, just a hop, skip and a jump away! I just couldn’t get over what I was seeing!

I know, I know: I’m a dork!

Ocean!