Pleased to Introduce...Mini-me

We hired a programmer. Joy of joys! The Eagle found the perfect
applicant...a work-a-holic 25-year-old obsessed with cold fusion and
java script, who is not only shorter than him...but just as bald!

Of course he was hired, he met "the criteria!"

Mini-me has proved to be an interesting addition to our office. At
first he seemed like a total techie. He came in, iPod in hand,
immediately nestled into his desk and began hard hitting the
programming code straight off the bat.

The Eagle seemws to be bonding well with him, their pals relationship looked like it was off to a flying start. I can almost see the white light shining on Mini-me
in the office. A little glow around his doorway. We would hear constant accolades being handed back and forth between the Eagle and him, like a tennis match between the two of them all day. Praising each other to high heaven seems to be their specialty. Uck. I can hardly bear to ease drop on any more of this.

It was a couple days later when hints started to appear that Mini-me might not be the ideal, conservative, techie geek the Eagle had hoped for. Brilliant yes, raditional, perhaps not. Heading out to lunch one day he mentioned that most of his friends work at Whole Foods, he listens to Bright Eyes, and has a vegetarian roommate. The curtain starts to raise.

Hmmm.

It was in a meeting last Thursday (Alli and I were chatting about the insanity of our hippe parents) when Mini-me mentioned that his mother is a hard core nudist.

We laughed, naturally (what is the appropriate reaction to that comment?) Then, Mini-me started telling us stories about how awkward it on his previous job, installing computer equipment in nudist restaurants where all the servers and patrons are walking around completely in commando. Especially his mother, who is getting up there. Our jaws dropped.

The Eagle, smiled nervously, and hurried back to his laptop.

More to follow on Mini-mi, developments await...