i met ken.

It's not every day that you meet Ken.

As I was on my third tour of the Velodrome photo positions today (where we will be assisting photographers) our Australian expert friend Ron was showing around some photog folks. Out of nowhere, one of the men turns around and, with hardly any hesitation...

Ken: Hi, I'm Ken from Getty.

... Ken asks Christina and I some friendly questions such as how long we have been in Beijing, where we went to school, what our jobs are, etc. When we tell him that we're actually the photo assistants in charge of photography issues at the venue...

Ken: That's great! My guys working here sure are lucky... I'll tell them to keep an eye out for you two!

... This all happened right after Christina and I had been discussing the possibility of maybe someday getting to meet a few of the photogs. We clearly had no concept of how closely we will be working with all of them, because as it turns out, we will get to know them all. Funny thing about this is... do you know who Ken is? Ken is the Getty Images boss for ALL OF THE OLYMPICS. All Getty photographers work under him here. And there he was, just happy to meet us.

I swear I got chills thinking about how cool it was to meet Ken. I'm not trying to be a creep here, but the Olympics Getty Images top dog is, to me, like running into a celebrity. Can't even explain how awesome. I'm still spinning.