Jan 05, 2006 12:24
i was late for work. the sun was just starting to light the sky and the morning was still pleasantly crisp. work was at Pataks on Carson (where i worked through college), but only to meet the team before heading out to the job. i happened to walk past the Site on the way. it was a huge ugly fenced lot full of steel parts and rubble located on one of the side st's off of Carson. the gates were opening up and two guard dogs were in there running twards the gates so i hurried along. then the team was together and we we suiting up in white tyvec suits and we had masks and yellow booties and for some reason had to paint our exposed skin with thick yellow paint to protect ourselves. everyone was irritated about this and rushing to get ready bc the excavator had already started digging a hole in the sidewalk. chuck (my old mentor from shield) was smoking a ciggarette and shaking his head. i could see the yellow paint from his fingers and lips marking his ciggarette, and the paint was melting off of him and gathering in the wrinkles at the base of his neck. he gave me a sideways look from under his cowboy hat as if saying 'what else could go wrong?'.
i was in my grandmothers kitchen. mark, tom, jen, mike, and big t were there either standing or sitting at the table. we were having an interesting discussion about something and we were drinking wine. big t had a full face of dark hair. he was in for the ugly sweater party. i saw him from across the table and hardly recognized him. but then i got excited and snuck around the table behind everyone and we had a long 'i've missed you' hug. it was real nice, but i remember worrying to myself whether he noticed how fat i've been getting like CP noticed but was too polite to say anything. than jenny whined 'awww ... why don't i get a hug?!' and we let go.