It’s back to school time. Most students are in the full swing of things now, learning the do’s and don’ts of the classroom and the most important questions like when’s lunch, recess, and which one is the bathroom pass? But I am here today to focus on that of higher education. I learned two very important things in college (other than dorm room walls are very thin). One was my social security number. It was given out to anyone and everyone that asks. Like a drone it would spew from my mouth automatically anytime anyone seemed to ask me anything. And the second was how to play Super Mario Brothers. The original. Now this is actually unusual, as I don’t really like video games all that much. I like my Wii but I usually do more Wii Fit stuff than anything on it, or bowling. I mostly don’t like games because I suck at them. Mario wasn’t really any different but it became highly addicting. Sadly (and I am so dating myself with this) we played the version back in the day that … [Read more...]
Stacked…
Just ask any man and he will (hopefully) say that given the choice between a blow up doll and a real live girlfriend, he chooses the real life girlfriend. That is what the IFBC was for me (no there was no blow up doll in the goodie bag). It was my chance to finally meet people in real life that I had been reading and talking to for so long. That is what I mostly took away from the conference. Well, that and I pay $350 but can’t get a chair (but that’s another rant for another day). I’ve been reading many bloggers recaps of the IFBC. Some all rosy and happy. Some bitter. Most somewhere in between. Meeting people however seems to be the one thing most people can agree on as the positive. Many people had epiphanies while there. I am not excluded in this category. But I don’t think mine was the same as others. The one thing I most definitely learned this last weekend is that I am not a food writer. Oh I may be a writer as in the fact that I write words on this blog and some of … [Read more...]
