No Frills...Literally

So last weekend I was sent INTO THE WOODS for a BUSINESS CONFERENCE entitled No Frills. (One of these things is not like the other; one of these things just doesn't belong...)

We all know that I am not a nature person. I think it's pretty, it smells nice for a while, but in the end it's just dirt and allergies and animals that I don't want to meet personally.

Texas A&M hosted this conference, aptly titled No Frills, and we all know A&M goes HARDCORE. I thought this pictorial odyssey through the hinterlands would give you a better description of what I was dealing with here...

This was our view when we got there. Not playing around. No humans OR lights to direct us around this campsite in East Texas. One of mys students immediately began doing those creepy banjo riffs from Deliverance...

This lovely, and oh so flattering representation is where we slept. Yes, you are seeing BUNK BEDS. 26 women were asked to sleep in this cabin with three showers. In the woods. In business casual / business attire. Seriously??

Here I am in a burst of positivity...before I saw what exactly our accommodations looked like...

More positivity in the woods...

My HCSA President and I hiking to the mess hall after I pissed other advisers / students off and told her she could wear her "nice" jeans to dinner. Yeah, I got her out of a suit in the woods. We can rumble by the bonfire later, Texas A&M...

(p.s. Imagine the mess hall about 6 inches out of the picture following the curve in the road. Not playing.)

SO I have fulfilled my nature quota for like the next 3 years. I happily relegate myself to the world of wireless internet, cell phone service, and food not served on the trays you had in elementary school with squares for each thing. I'm anti those squares.

Bringing Funny Back

OK people, my blog is no longer funny.

Back in the day, when we first started these things, I was amusing. I had a catchphrase, I went on rants, I compared Christmas to communism... It was a hoot!

Now, not so much.

Abby has informed me that I have lost the funny factor. To be fair, she agreed with me, not pointed it out herself.

Therefore, my new mission is to bring funny back.

*This is not the beginning of the mission. This is just notice of said mission. Don't worry, I haven't slipped that much.

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