In 7th grade I took Home Economics. The old school way was half a year was sewing(I still can not sew on a button) and the other half was cooking. We had to fly solo in sewing class(which was taught by the math teacher...again, perhaps why I can't even sew on a button). But in cooking class we had a partner. Little did I know that my partner D and I would be partners in class all the way through our undergrad degrees. Oddly enough only two of those times we selected each other. The other 9 times were random. Yes, I had the same cooking partner and lab partner 11 times. D was not someone I would have chosen. For starters, D is a guy. He took Home EC to scam on chics, and well, I was so not someone he wanted to scam on. So we didn't start off the best. We so did not get along in Home EC. He never paid attention and I ended up doing all the cooking. Luckily by the time we got to high school, that all changed. We learned to draw on each others strengths to get each other through the … [Read more...]