THE WEEK BEFORE THE CONVENTION

Tuesday night... a double again. Exhaustion is catching up on all of us. I feel as though I am fading. Sara bailed out on me last minute because the sheriff gave her the day-off to straighten the hotel reservations for the Las Vegas CSI. I'm so excited because I am going to finally meet THE Gil Grissom! And of course, Nicky's daddy. I do not have a crush on the guy... it's just that, I'm curious about him... his son with Sara looking all that cute and all. Nicky does not look anything like his mother!

Yay! I'm off for two days. I'm out for a much needed spa pampering for tomorrow. "Hey, Hannah..." the receptionist Tessa Nichols said before I head out the door, "Can you tell CSI Sidle that the Las Vegas CSI will bring along another participant, Archie Johnson... Audio/Video Laboratory Technician."

"Will, do!" I said quite jovially. Hmm... 'Archie', haven't heard that name for so long. Anyway, that's another guy to meet within the 'work circle'. At my apartment, I called Sara... a very tired and sleepy Sara. "Hey Sara, you asleep?" I asked putting on some night crème. She groaned and mumbled something that resembled a yes. "Sorry but I just got home from the double and reception received a call from Las Vegas PD that the Clark County CSI will bring along another member. Someone named Archie Johnson."

She almost cried, "Really! Gosh, I miss that guy!" Ooh, they're friends. I'm getting all into meeting this guy as well. So I asked about him. "Well, he's one of our lab techs back in Vegas. He's very helpful especially in audio/visual. And he's well, kinda cute." And he looks like? "Okay, now... he's Asian, tall, smiles a lot, and he has a bit of an accent," she enumerated.

Asian... accents... please! This woman is damn lucky! "Ahh, Sara! You have to introduce me to him!" She joked something about Gil Grissom. You're pretty sure I want to meet him as well. "Hey, I got to go. Sweet dreams, boss!" and we both clicked off.

Hmm... what an ending to a day. Here I am... Hannah Lisa Valdez, a 27-year-old Asian girl, single for about three frickin' years now. "Hey don't get your hopes up, sister," my conscience bonked me in the head. I'm not... I'm just saying... "Who knows?"