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" March 14, 2008  Many people find security in a profession that they can wake up each morning and know exactly what the day will bring. From the resident office creep that you unluckily always manage to get stuck in the elevator with to the soft rock station that plays &amp;quot;continuous hits from yesterday and today with no rock and rap.&amp;quot; Who wouldn&amp;#039;t be productive when your daily soundtrack includes Pat Benatar and Amy Grant? I, by nature, am allergic to monotony-I can barely wear an outfit twice! The past four days I spent in a make-shift office where my 10\u00D78 windowless room wallpapered with a photographic series of Jerry Hall by Ezra Petronio morphed into a grass and bamboo Mexican hut. Instead of walking out to a sea of flash-bulb, fanny pack secure (those New Yorkers are barbaric and will mug you!) tourists with a free pass to the world&amp;#039; s most impressive neon museum I was in front of a real sea, the Caribbean. Instead of the faces of my early twenties female fashion exasperated co-workers and their banter of lost Alexander Wang t-shirts, belligerent weekend escapades and dating woes, I was dealt a fresh crop of the finest and most interesting in the business: an ex-club kid who in the most polite and sensitive way introduced me to the art of proper tucking, a Greek-based, Holland-bred brute man who had an affection for all things gold, expensive eyewear and exotic cigarettes, a handsome playboy they call Sexy Lexy accessorized with a dangerous lens and a stylistic marvel with manners that belong in royal court and an uncanny resemblance to a young Yves Saint Laurent. Instead of scaling jagged mountain edges strangled in couture and being chased by hoofed animals, the greatest threat that this story posed was skin cancer and a little white feminine string that loved the camera so much it tried to be in every shot-I played security and made sure that it was concealed. Just another day at the office. -Malina V. Joseph "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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