You know what's badass?
(I’ll tell you)
…Receiving a facebook friend request from your old professor, who is also the head of the creative writing dept. at FSU/the author of the Godfather sequels.
Besides being a kickass writer (guys, read The Godfather Returns; everyone, read That’s True of Everybody), he ran one of my favorite workshops during my time at FSU. I even went to his office hours just to “shoot the shit,” and he was tickled by the way I’d put it, and told me that he’d never had a student come by without an ulterior motive of changing a grade, etc.
He held our final class at The Warehouse, a pool hall/bar housed in, well, an old warehouse. We drank pitchers of beer and discussed stories and it was pretty much the perfect last class of my college career. Seriously, the dude’s a badass.
Not too shabby.