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methodically verbose

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"This too, shall pass." - A.E.G., 1942

"But if not I, then who shall speak on their behalf?"

Confucius say... CONTINUE!

This entry was posted on 3/30/2007 9:22 PM and is filed under un-politically correct.

Have you ever had one of those days when you just wished that you had listened to your self first thing in the morning, and just stayed in bed? Well, that happens to me more than even I care to admit, but we've already gone through two sofa's, a love seat, and a lazy boy!

Well, in continuing from last nights discussion, I would like to pick up where I left off. My teammate and I were attending the reception in honor of the Tuskegee Airmen, and hosted at the Library of Congress. The usual three body cavity search - searching to the far side of Uranus, and getting wanded with a rather phallic looking device - resembling something all too close to our Nation's Monument (yeah, you know the one!), we enter brandishing only mild bruises. Upon a quick survey of the layout, my compadre decides to make him self scarce - leaving me the "Rookie" photog hanging high, and dry, and in desperate need of a nicotine fix.

{I guess I should have mentioned this earlier, but I gave up a 12 year addiction to dipping Copenhagen while over in Medor two weeks ago. Needless to say, I'm a little close to the edge!}

Anyway, after squeezing off a few rounds at the "Flashy" camera crews hovering over the older gentleman, I decided that I needed a new strategy - or at least one! So, I final locate my comrade up to his arms in a 2006 bottle of Chardonnay, and ask him to step up and act as a blockade to the other TV crews so that I might get one shot of the Tuskegee Airmen without a microphone permanently attached to their face. This seemed to be in a direct conflict to his already filled dance card with the bartender. When asked if he had asked any of them questions, he said that he got all he needed by ease dropping, and when was I going to be ready to go - he didn't want to go back to work smelling like alcohol... too late!

Long story short - I managed to grab a few shots off between my attempts to strangle my walking light pole. And, yes this is a really great internship. I'm learning a lot about how to motivate people, and to also keep myself motivated. The following are some of the outtakes from today's shoot.