Firstly... yes... I went there... and I'll be staying there for quite some time...
Challenge: To keep an egg alive for a week while keeping it on my person at all times.
Difficulty: 4/5
Skills developed: Responsibility of something extremely delicate.
Overview/Rant: So, was it all it was cracked up to be? You wanna hear about my eggcellent adventure with the egg? Tuesday last I was set the task of babysitting an egg for a week by a gentleman named Charles Beastley- I thought to myself: "What's this yoke on about?!" So without further eggistation I began the challenge of protecting the egg from the outside world.
In keeping with the Spanish concept- I decided to name my egg Senor Juevo (Mr. Egg). Senor Juevo was sophisticated, beautiful and delicate. He poached himself quite a few ladies in the past, but all ended up running in the end. He seemed hard on the outside, but underneath his shell was a gooey centre... as I discovered on day two...
Senor Juevo had an adventure in my coat pocket... I can't be sure of the details- all I know is he eggploded with joy... we did our best to save him but even my dear friend Benedict couldn't unscramble this mess...
A ceremony was held for Senor Juevo one hour later. There were candles, a prayer and a fry up...I resigned myself to failure... I was to be alone... but everything wasn't as it seemed...
Senor Juevo was back... how could this be?
Senor Juevo... was... a... Cylon*... there were many copies... each containing the memories and eggperiences of the previous models...
Unprepared for this, I inadvertently killed the second Senor Juevo only hours after his first death. Appalled at what I had done, I begged the gods to entrust me another Senor Juevo to protect... and the gods were obviously low on applicants that day because sure enough another Senor Juevo arrived on my doorstep.
Having moved on from my shell shock of seeing (and killing) two Juevos in two days, I promised to treat this Senor better than all the rest; I took him sightseeing in the city, shopping in St. Stephens Green and I cooked him a beautiful slap-up meal. TONIGHT I'm taking him to see the eggcellent production "HAIR" starring some of my amigos (Good Luck!). Senor Juevo recommended it after reading about it here.
Recommendation: Certainly a challenge. I'd give it a goo! Oh- an actual recommendation would be to wrap the egg in a plastic sealable bag- that way it won't destroy your clothes when it cracks.
Conclusion: So- this challenge would seem an EPIC fail... BUT- I've succeeded in keeping this egg alive for 5 days now and I'm going to CONTINUE to keep this Senor Juevo (numero 3) alive for as long as possible. Although, he may be so eggcited about the show tonight that he'll... f*&k it, I can't keeping using puns... you get the idea....
Next/Current Challenge: So- I still haven't written about the 'Spanish' challenge! Well the reason for that is I'm speaking with my Spanish speaking friend tomorrow/Thursday over the interweb. So I'll update when I get some external feedback. Also- my challenge this week is to write and record a song in a week. It can be whatever I want it to be, but it must be of some reasonable sound quality. So far I'm stumped for what to sing about so suggestions are always welcome!
* This is referring to Battlestar Galactica... if you haven't watched it then now would be a good time to punch yourself if the face as you've missed out on potentially the most amazing show ever... EVER! Actually on that note...
