The Greatest Idea of My Life

I am sure that I am not alone in having tons of projects and papers due near the end of the semester. Sometimes the class assigns a really interesting topic, in other classes, where choice is an option, a stroke of genius presents an idea that would be really swell. For me just about every single one of these includes, or starts with the Board. I had to interview someone about their life and how they saw themselves as a person. I was really struggling with coming up with someone interesting, then to use a line out of Hook "Lightning just struck my brain" why not ask a Board writer? I was talking to Tangerine at the time and I thought to myself "How cool would that be to interview her? I wonder if she would agree?" So I asked. HA! She said sure. Talk about motivation for a project and paper, all of a sudden the excitement level for my assignment went through the roof! Interview a Board writer? Wholly Cow! I filled up a whole page of interesting tidbits, I felt just like a boardie interviewing an All-Star Board writer (Shes in the top ten). Sometimes I got flustered and asked really dumb questions that were extremely vague, she was very courteous and asked me to re-ask or re-word the question. I think Board writers fall under the "more-you-get-to-know-them-the-more-interesting-nice-and-knowledgeable-they- seem" category. Granted I know very few, but the ones I do know fit this category. Not to mention selfless, not only do they volunteer their time to answering our questions, but they serve just about every one around them. I felt like a schlemiel--here I am just a new boardie asking a veteran Board writer to help me with my homework? Kinda like a beginner asking an Open Amateur to be dance partners. She graciously agrees. When I get there she is taking a nap. Do I let her sleep? No. Instead I think of something lame to say (yeah like every time I open my mouth), wake her up from her nap, proceed to ask her a ton of nonsensical questions, then ask her to fill out an identity map for herself, and to add insult to injury I don't even have any form of compensation (i.e. Cheesecake, cookies, a stick of gum--for cryin out loud!). Basically I felt like the luckiest boardie ever!