Even when I'm technically tan I'm still pretty much a blinding spectacle of glaring whiteness.
Ok, who's going to do this with me?
One of the great things about not living on my own is that now when I have my photography and other art up on the walls... instead of looking completely in love with myself it just looks like I have proud and supportive partners (who may or may not have been threatened with lack of sex if they didn't devote an entire hallway to my masterpieces).
Michael, Mike and I spent the weekend out near Arnold, CA in the Sierra Mountains. There was snow on the ground though it was pretty wet and sleeted most of the weekend with temps around 30°F. We went with several friends (8 of us in total) and had a pretty low key weekend away spent mostly in the large house we were all sharing.
While I generally pride myself on getting away from the snow and ice of my home state, I found myself secretly disappointed that the snow was too wet for sledding, making snowmen, or for the fun of snowmachines. And just recently hearing tales of fun snowmachining adventures added to my angst and made me ponder selling my left kidney so I could afford the cost of an emergency flight to Homer so I could convince my brother to take me out on the trails (I'll make it out to his cabin one of these days).
How did I cope with the the horror of realizing that I actually missed the snow? Well, I did the only thing I could do: funneled all my energy into pure, delicious condescension...
As my Californian cohorts discussed how to drive cars up the slushy drive, the need for shoveling the 1/4" of snow and how we might all get snowed in... I found myself turning into the diva queen of all things winter.
"Well if *I* were driving, I wouldn't be scared at all because I grew up in Alaska and I nearly died every day on those slick, scary, icy Alaskan roads."
The fact that no one had problems handling the roads, the shoveling, the temperature or firing up the wood stove didn't deter me from radiating a sense of icy superiority.
"I've seen 60 below."
So there.
So nearly all the staff are out this afternoon to some "social committee" event (I know, I basically work at a day camp for adults). Since it's such a ghost town around here I was thinking of running through the halls naked. Brooke thinks it'd be perfectly appropriate and I'm sure she'd never steer me wrong.
Here's a photo shoot I did of my friend Shawn. There is no nudity in this set (sorry to disappoint), but there are cigars, hats, rubber and scenery.

Greg: You get the human condition + free will + sexual self-discovery and that's a recipe for a roller coaster that reaches heaven before dropping you to hell with a few loop-de-loops in the middle.
Gee, when you put it that way... where are the razor blades?
In my next life I'm going to be a slacker. Sounds like a much more relaxed existence.
I saw Kathy Griffin Saturday night and she was just as hysterical, crazy, gossipy and evil as she is on tv. Looooved it! She was here for the International Bear Rendezvous (a gay "bear" event) and catered the first half of her show to the bear crowd. It was filmed by Bravo so I'm curious to see what they decide to actually air from the event. The show was so worth the nearly $100 ticket price.
Below are the results of two recent photo shoots with my friend Jack. These are not safe for work or for eyes that don't want to see naked man parts.

We have auditors here to nit-pick through ever piece of paper that finance touched for the last year. This is the first time I've been through a year end audit and I'm honestly annoyed beyond levels I thought possible. I thought I was pretty damned anal-retentive, but I could never compare with the minute detail fanaticism of an auditor. Beyond that they seem to really have no clue as to what they are doing and I'd swear they're all between the ages of 12 and 12½. Then, of course, my brilliantly flawless filing system is a mess with 20 different people needing to look at invoices all at the same time so that now I can't find what the auditors were looking for in the first place. They probably formed those invoices into origami coasters during yesterday's craft hour. Which of course means they are now creased and covered in kool-aid stains.