But God, how I hate all that stuff."November 11, 2071I introduced Alan and Samantha today. I think they'll be ideal candidates foran exchange. They bo...th took me seriously; I can't believe what they've doneto improve their looks! Alan has dropped a good 25 pounds, looks like he'sbeen lifting weights, and was dressed in a good-looking suit.The change in Samantha, if anything, was even more startling. Her complexionis completely cleared up, thanks to the dermatologist I sent her to. She'slost. Her attention was now wholly on her new job. The groundwork was well advanced. Over the past month or two, she had developed the designs for the contract she had won and now had to turn into a profitable job. Design and build is a form of architecture that gives the architect the ability to design a structure in an optimal way so that she can then build it profitably.When the sun did not appear after lunch, Helen changed out of her sweat suit. When she put the orange cat outside, he let her. He sits on her bed. He just cannot get his mind off of her. Jill would be the perfect distraction, at least for a little bit. He sits there looking around the room, thinking about the adventure they had in the very bed he sits on. Out of the corner of his eye he sees a piece of white sticking out of the top drawer of her dresser. Curious, he gets up and moves over to it.A sly smile creep onto his face. It is a pair of her panties. Opening the drawer, he shifts through it, marveling at the white. " Acquired talent," he shot back mildly."What did we miss, Ziva? And where?" Plastic knife at the left of his zipper, inside the pants. He told me about it after I had escorted him to Interrogation. He did not have to, Tony. He could have waited, used it against Abby when she printed him. But he did not; he gave up the information willingly. That is why I knew I could trust him alone with Abby, Tony. Yet no one has really asked me about that."She knew Tony would hate her apparently defending.