I just crawled out of a piping hot bath to share my total thrill with everyone. ( Yeah, I know, get a life.)
My husbands best friend is a college biology professor. He is Mr. Pessimistic and despite a spectacular academic career
(He’s a frickin’ genius.) does not think he’ll get tenure this year. This guys had projects go up on the space shuttle fercryin’outloud. His view on the matter is “There is always some one else out there that is better than me.”
Anyways, the graduating students at his college vote on which teacher was the most influential in their college career. Our friend, Chuck, received 480 votes, the majority. ( I don’t know out of how many.) but he won this incredible honor. He received a plaque and $1500 in cash. He’s won many awards in his career and he said this one touched him the most. He is one of the most humble guys I’ve ever met and I wish I could emulate him in this catagory ( ok, and the smarts department too and being able to hold his liquor as well.)
Anyways, Antonio Banderas was at the college receiving an honorary degree for whatever and as Chuck left the stage, Antonio grabbed him and gave him and shook his hand vigorously and said what an honor to win such an award. Said he was really sincere.
Melanie was there too, wearing a skin tight outfit and you could see the outline of her thong. Some of chucks students, sitting right behind her, took two rolls of pictures of her butt.
I am so happy for Chuck and this incredible honor. And it was pretty cool for him to be face to face with Antonio.
Wow, that’s amazing! What a cool story. The only thing I have that even slightly compares to that is my husband’s mother’s boyfriend’s son is going to build a house for Carlos Santana this year in Hawaii, lol.
(I’ve seen Melanie Griffith in person, she’s about as big as my thumb and yes, that voice is REAL!!!)
I’ve been reading A Perfect Harmony by Roger A. Caras, which is about the domestication of animals. In it I learned the following interesting fact: Cheetahs were once difficult to breed in captivity because of two “secrets” of female cheetahs: 1) They have a “cryptic estrus” – there’s no indication that they’re in heat. But male cheetahs in the vicinity can tell, so you watch their behavior. And 2) they require a polyandrous mating – they have to mate with at least two males in order to breed. Surprisingly, these secrets were uncovered by Amanda Blake, the actress (Miss Kitty in Gunsmoke) and her husband, Frank Gilbert, “on their private experimental cheetah-breeding compound in Phoenix, Arizona.”
Now the amazing part – while in college I once roomed with two guys from Phoenix who lived just down the street from Amanda Blake! They said the neighbors frequently complained about lions roaring in the morning and waking everyone up. Maybe they were just telling the cheetah boys to check out the babe with the spots!
(pluto slips quietly into Shirley’s piping hot bath, hoping he’ll be mistaken, once again, for Antonio Banderas. “Your husband’s best friend told me to meet you here…What, you keep a gun in your bathroom?..Hey! I’m Antonio Banderas, you can’t shoot me!”
Your husband’s friend Chuck sounds like a cool dude. He should be very proud.
Unless you consider pride to be a bad thing, which I don’t. Is there a better word to use – when you don’t want people to think you’re lacking humility, which is a good thing, unless it’s false, which is then just as bad as being proud? Hmmm. I dunno.
Ohmigod, I’m channeling Bjorn!
Anyway, somebody should be proud. God, just to think of being a good influence on one person would make me puff up like a … like a cheese souffle with too many egg whites.