On Weightlessness and Freefall, metaphorically speaking

So... I don't know if anybody's noticed, but my boss has been arrested and indicted for defrauding the government. (Defrauding? Shouldn't it be frauding?) It's been in all of the papers and his picture was all over ABC news the other day. So I'm pretty much out of a job. I'm going back to Baghdad to tidy things up before our client makes us leave... and then I'll be in limbo for a while, I guess. Sigh. It's very upsetting... I knew Phil was a bit shady, but he seemed like a regular business guy type... pretty much like every other business guy in Baghdad. The papers are saying some pretty nasty things about him, much of which I suppose is true.  I do know, however, that the Iraqis who worked for him are some of the highest paid Iraqis working for a US company in Iraq. The people working under me were paid 2 or 3 times as much as Iraqis working similar jobs at other companys in the Green Zone, and because of that I thought of my boss as a good guy. I'm really disappointed that it's turned out to be this way... I guess Al-Jazeera is having a field day with all this. I'm going to miss working there. I'm really going to miss my Iraqi friends... I feel worse for them about all this than anything. They are going to be out of work quicker than I am even... Phil has really screwed alot of good people over because of this.
Anyway, I'm in Ft. Lauderdale at the moment... I'm going to do my Zero-Gravity flight a little bit later this afternoon, and tomorrow I'll go to Pennsylvania. I may have to cut it short and head back to Baghdad earlier than I had planned, however... people are quitting and the camp is going to start falling apart pretty quickly. I just need to get there and help Scott, who's filling in for me, keep it together long enough to tie up some loose ends and get paid... It is really bad timing that this has all gone down on my vacation, I should be there.
Jen, I totally missed you on the last two posts! I'm really sorry, I don't know where my mind was. Anyway, at least I got you for # (7!)
Also, I've added a Mont St. Michel gallery at my smugmug page, and added some new photos in my Paris gallery.