To the Victor the Spoils!

Today I received the most awesome, wonderful news from my dear friend Pibb. I've not blogged about my adventures with Pibb as of late because she has been in deep seclusion studying to pass gross anatomy. For three years she's been plagued by this course. Pibb has chemical sensitivities and brutal asthma, so being in the formaldehyde labs has not been a Sunday picnic for her. It's been pure torture for her, even with wearing hazmat suits and full face masks that filter the air. Without further digression, I received word that she passed the last of her exams and is now free of all gross anatomy courses! This is truly a remarkable, blessed occasion! I'm so very proud of my Pibb! She hung in there when others with sturdier lungs and constitutions fled like rats escaping a sinking ship.

To honor her and her great accomplishment, she has been awarded The Bona Fide Shrone Award, because only a real Shrone would have the perserverance and fortitude to persist!

(Pibb doesn't have her own blog, BTW. So I posted this letter to her on her behalf.)

Pibb,
I've created a special award that I am pleased to bestow on you as one of the first recipients. It is The Bona Fide Shrone Award. I've determined that you possess many of the salient characteristics of a Shrone. Someday when you have your own blog, please proudly display your Shrone status! Here are the reasons why you are a Shrone:

1. After three long, torture-filled years, you are now free of Gross Anatomy and Kali, the Destroyer of Lives, aka Dr. Thomas.
2. You own a Super Pickle.
3. You crochet body parts.
4. You play the violin, decorate styrofoam heads, and you're possibly unknowable.
5. Something about you says when you get old and withered, you just might go out crusing for penis!
6. You have creatively used your George Foreman grill to bake cookies, pancakes, and even grilled steaks!
7. You have not succumbed to your utterly naturpathic classmates and turned vegan. You'll always be my kindred spirit in meat!
8. You're my bosom friend and kindred spirit and co-reviewer of cheeseburgers.
9. You're one groovy chick and I think you are super cool!
10. Despite all you've been through, you haven't killed your inner child.

Yours in Shronedom!
Lori