That look just strikes me as so perfect, because he is at his best when he actively has his mind engaged on a problem. This particular problem, Nov 2008, happened to be a word search puzzle at an Applebee's, but I still find him incredibly sexy.
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Joel had been in New Jersey for 2 days last week when I received the call that he would not be flying home that night due to a canceled flight. After several attempts to try and get on a later flight, he went on standby and booked a nearby hotel. At 5 a.m., I received a text message from him stating that he had successfully boarded. Later that morning, I was sitting in my office reviewing my lecture before my class when I received an e-mail from Joel’s mom. “There was a plane crash from a plane leaving from Newark New Jersey to Buffalo New York. Where was Joel going in New Jersey and have you heard from him?” My stomach did flips as a significant portion of the blood drained from my face. I thought rationally for a moment and realized that his standby flight would probably not have transferred from NJ to Buffalo, though I was still filled with dread. I quickly checked my cell phone and realized I had a text message. “Landed,” it said, and my heart raced back to life. I quickly e-mailed his mom back and let her know that he had landed and was driving back now. Then, with my eye on the clock, opened up the CNN.com window and scanned the story. I realized that a key piece of information that his mom had left out was that the crash had happened at 10:20 p.m. the night before – not that morning. The other day Joel was gone on a faculty interview to NJ, so I was in charge of little guy that afternoon. I cut out early from work and went to pick him up from school. He was ecstatic to see me when I picked him up from school. He took me by the hand and showed me his drawing from that day, and the teacher helped me understand what the story had said and how his drawing corresponded to it. Photo courtesy of: www.sandlakelabradors.com/ (Not my breeders, just a cute pic). My sister and I were on an international flight recently, and the plane began to encounter some strong turbulence. We were on a large plane, a plane that seats about 9 per row, and usually larger planes are less affected by such turbulence. As the plane rocked back and forth and did a little jitter dance in the air, it began to creak -- loudly. I matched eyes with my sister, and across the row from us I heard two ladies begin to talk. One turned to the other and said, "Wow, that didn't sound good!" and the other replied, "Yeah -- it kind of sounded like that creak in the ship right before the Titanic broke in half and sank." My sister and I looked at each other and grinned wildly. It had sounded like the Titanic! Cosette was about 2 months old here. I'm not sure why I wrote 3.5 months. |