email. TO: "Isaac Olsen" <i.olsen@lvl5-agency.org> FROM: "Sebastian Whitaker" <s.whitaker@lvl5-agency.org> SUBJECT:Hey.
Look, about the weird little conversation we had -- I wanted to apologize for going on the defensive, and explain myself as well, sans excuses. It's weird to You were completely right, of course. If traveling abroad were something that I really wanted to do, I would put aside the bullshit and just go. It's hard to explain, but apparently I have this neurotic attachment to North America. I know the States better than I'd care to admit, I've been in practically every one of them at least once, and you'd be hard-pressed to find a place that I wouldn't feel at least marginally comfortable navigating my way around, even the backwater little hellholes in our heartland. I've certainly made myself culturally knowledgeable about the rest of the world, but I think I'd feel like even more of an impostor actually going to the places I've read about, and not in the exciting, challenging sense. More like an idiotic tourist who rants about the pleasures of France and then eats only McDonalds when they finally get to go. Or something equally ridiculous and pathetic to admit in text, but there you have it.
What I really wanted to do was ask how your vacation was. And maybe see you, since we haven't really had a chance to talk since before the great Network Security Failure of '10. I can't stand not knowing what you probably must think of It's been crazed here, Admin gave the Hackers and Technicians a really impossible task that we've been stretching our resources to fund, but the deadline is today, so I should at least be free by Sunday or have time next week.
Did BlackIs there anything else that Bring back any good wines from your trip? I just got an order in from New Zealand that I'd practically forgotten about, I placed it so long ago, and I'm curious to try it, if you'd like to give me a hand. Or a mouth, I guess