If I'm to be your camera, who will be your face?

Toe!
Good to read your post. I am alive and well and finished up work relatively early (10 p.m as opposed to 11 lately). I, too, am not good with my freetime (part of why we don't have cable TV is cause I would watch it like crazy), but instead of taking classes, I take some extra work. The best part of it is, after I finish in a few weeks, free nights seem like they are made of actual gold, instead of the dross we usually take them for as we throw them away on cheap hollywood crap.

OK, negative stuff coming out of my brainhole. Man, I am tired and not writing as well as I think I can.

I hope to be back in DC sometime in September--maybe by the 3rd week of the month? I need to talk to the home office and see what makes sense. The director is kind of laid back, saying "Come when you want," but I feel like I really need to check in, since they are the ones putting the money on the table.

I saw your comment on the Scotland pix. I'm glad you enjoyed them. I love your observation that it looks like we visited Scotland by ourselves. The funny thing is, in some of those pictures of the standing stones, C* and I would wait until tourists cleared out of the way so we could get a shot of just the stones. There were about 50 people there at one point, but it looks like no one is around because they are all out of the frame. That said, the Scottish Highlands are very desolate in places. It's because the clan chieftans cleared out their tenant farmers in the 18-19th century so they could raise sheep. No joke. Sheep were more profitable than people paying rent or farming.

I like your story about the old coworker. I like meeting those kinds of charming people--the ones who are great to be around just because they are so real and open with their emotions. It's a rare thing, maybe even more rare in a work environment. I like the name you gave her, but I am feeling too lazy to look it up at the moment.

Cracks me up you say "Gimme some sugar" to your male coworkers.

Anyway, I am too tired to post coherently. I'm sitting here in the dining area of our apartment working on my laptop because C* and Hi-C are in the office tonight doing some class-prep. I think they are doing their syllabi. I don't know if that is true, but I like to say it because I like the word syllabi.

I'll talk to you soon, man. Hope the AC man was good to you.
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