Posing

So I made my debut as a butt model today. Our features department is doing a piece about inexpensive dating. For a photo illustration, they wanted me and a co-worker to hold hands, while they took pictures from the back, with a few dollar bills sticking out of his back pocket.

I felt like I was the subject of some strange experiment, as I stood there holding hands facing a white wall, while a group watched us from behind. They stacked reams of copy paper underneath where I was standing because, guess what, he is much taller than me.

This better not be my 15 minutes of fame.

Lessons learned: I'm not sure I have a future in butt modeling.

Basking

The weather has been absolutely amazing the past couple days. I've been eating lunch outside, basking in the sun. It's made me really crave summer, but I have a feeling we have a few months to go.

In the meantime, it's always nice to rub it in a bit that I live in paradise for those of you stuck in the snow up north. Sorry.

Lessons learned: I'm not really sorry.

Snow therapy

We have had a series of storms here, followed by two days of sunny bliss in the powder. My friend, Genevieve, who used to work with me here before moving to Santa Cruz, came to visit. We went snowboarding Saturday. The storms had cleared up a couple days before, so I figured the powder would be soft and all tracked up. But it stayed cold, making for some nice floaty turns in the trees. It was a beautiful day, which I needed after a long week. It was great to catch up with Gen, who I haven't seen in about two years.

Then a couple co-workers and I went snowshoeing today. We got a late start, so it was less than truly ambitious, but it was great to get into the woods, again on a really nice day.

Lessons learned: Snow makes great therapy.