"As Emily is ringing us up, she says, "I absolutely love your lip stickAmanda, what brand is it?"Jen answers for me, "Madison, and I'm afraid it won't... be on the marketuntil fall." Ohhh, are you a rep?" Jen smiles and says, "I guess you call us that"and hands her a business card.Emily's eyes go wide, and says almost reverently, "it must be wonderfulworking so closely with her. I bet you get a lot of fringe benefits."Jen smiles and says, "oh, yeah," and pays our tab with a platinumcredit. "I'm playing tennis with Karen tomorrow," I announced, adding, "If we do well she's going to drive me to school." Neither of them picked up on the significance of this but Suzanne brightened."Oh, I hope you do well," she said."I hope so too," I said.Did I hope we would do well? I was counting on it! I was going to play my ass off to make it happen. Having Karen drive me to school was all I had been thinking about since she made the offer.We finished the meal without me telling them about. Just then, somebody else in the room said, “Hold for a moment, he’s right here.” He looked over at the colonel and me and said, “Secretary Powell is on the line and looking for you, Mister President.”I nodded at Colonel Withers. “Speak of the devil.” I motioned to the other officer and he hit a button on the phone, and it rang to the one in front of me. “Colin?”“Carl, I am hearing some very disturbing things out of Monrovia,” stated the Secretary of State.“You caught me in a briefing on that.. It was after my dinner of a frozen beef pot pie and a salad from the McDonald's at the plaza. I didn't see Monk in the lounge so I was ready for bed by 9PM. I slept like the dead, probably because I was still recovering for my night out with Mary Ellen. I found that I alway required a lot of rest when recovering. I didn't even think about work at all, I just fell instantly asleep.I was awake at 5AM and out the door for my run at 5:20AM. It was cold as it always was in the winter at 5AM. It.