Ourcompany liked meetings and I spent large amounts of my time attendingthem. Nothing was ever done or decided at these meeting. Some of mycolleagues ...oved going to them - business networking it's called. Ifound nearly all of them boring and the only thing that seemed to happenwas the exchange of a large number of business cards with people whowanted to sell themselves and didn't really listen to what you weresaying.I opened the door and said, "Hello?"It was quiet; maybe she was upstairs. I went around and sat in the seat and just started laughing.“Eric, what’s going on?”“It’s silly and only funny for that reason. Tommy and I drove up together. He said that I could have saved gas by meeting you at the church. I told him, ‘No way.’ I then asked if he wanted to save gas and he answered no. It just got funnier and funnier.”She looked at me though I was perhaps stranger than most men as I drove us to the church. I added, “You had to be there. It was male humor.”I pulled into a. There was Canadian pot and hash heading off continent. At the time, Canada was a world powerhouse in the pot and hash trade. The harder drugs headed south from Alaska. Alaska was easy to smuggle things into and out of, both from the ocean side and the Canadian border. Drugs all stopped in FSJ, so it could be routed to or from different places.Drugs mostly went out of, or into the continent from Alaska, via Whitehorse, then FSJ. I contacted my Filipino friends one last time. I knew it was a. She was all legs and slender curves, and in love with everything about her appearance.Sophie blew a kiss to her reflection and hopped in the shower.For the next twenty minutes all worries about homework and life evaporated along with the steam. The simple pleasure of hot water beating against her body lifted her up and calmed her down. By the time she'd finished washing and turned the shower off, all thoughts of tormenting her nerdy friend were gone, replaced with quiet contentment.Until she.