file this under general amusement:

remember how i had my photo taken with the senator the day of the "big snowstorm"? the group photo with three other staffers and all that? well, i was finally getting to take my individual photo with the big guy today, so i dressed up all snazzy and professional-like (my god, twice in one week--this is getting scary) and came into work, only to be given my signed copy of the FIRST photo. so i felt all silly, having another photo taken with him, but i figured what the hell. individual photo, post-haircut so i look different and dammit, the offer was there, so i was taking it.

so the bunch of us who were getting our photo taken traspe down to--the same place we'd had the group shot done. haha. i was playing it off like the senator wouldn't remember, but maybe the fact that he'd just signed my first photo stuck in his mind, because as i stood next to him, he commented with a twinkle in his eye (yes, his eyes do twinkle from time to time) that he wished it was sunny outside so the background would look different in this photo, instead of the same backdrop as "the other one."

hehehehehehe. he's a cool fellow.