Friday's Feast 2½: The Smell of Blog

Friday's Feast, 13 May 2005.

Appetizer Whose intelligence do you find intimidating?
I had a math professor at BYU who was a certifiable genius. Unfortunately, his method of teaching involved writing equations and derivations on the board almost faster than he could erase what was already there. This was in a huge class—hey, what's better than taking Calculus with two hundred of your closest friends, right?—and I think everyone but a dozen or so people sitting front and center was intimidated, including me.

Soup Name something you've done that surprised yourself.
Getting married was something of a surprise to me; getting divorced was even more so.

Salad List 3 people whom you have only "met" online, but consider good friends.
The difficulty here is that I keep meeting people in real life that I've met online: Tiffany, for example, and also Cindy. There is one person I've known only online for several years, though, and her name is also Cindy. She's been going through a lot of problems recently, and I hope she's doing all right.

Main Course Where is the dirtiest place you've ever been?
I remember a certain house in the backwoods of West Virginia where they kept the doors open and had chickens and other livestock coming in and going out at will. We made it a point to meet with that family outside.

Dessert What is the best example of "perfection" that you can think of?
Spending a day in the company of a good friend is the closest thing to perfection that I know.

Happy Friday the 13th, everyone!