Dr Hoabs, at it again.

Dr. Hoabs Never ever let’s me down. We had another meeting with him Friday. One classmate is working with the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. When Dr. Hoabs asked about her experience she relayed how it’s just getting off of the ground in Richmond and that they were even having problem finding space. Dr. Hoabs asked “tell me what you are learning?” She talked about seeing the difficulties in building from the ground up in a new town. Dr. Hoabs says, “Well I thought you were going to tell me that you are having problems getting office space because people don’t believe that breast cancer is a problem, as prominent and marvelous as women’s breast are.” Huh? Then he started to rip into my verbatim. He said I don’t want to injure my brother, I told him…”I can take it” Dr. Hoabs “Can you?” So then he told me it was scant and not verbose enough. That we need to take our training seriously and that we need to be able to write more words and to write better, and he’s looking for more pages, “I’m looking for you to write 20 but I’m only going to read 2. I want you to give an effort that gives me more pages. He went on telling us of his graduate school experience and how it was that he hung around the school at first because they wouldn’t admit him, so he “Played pea knuckle here, bid Whist across the street.” And how he was more about chasing girls and he was so much older than the students that he started looking at the teachers and saying…”Hey I might be able to get this ‘A’ another way.” Dr. Hoabs is my man though, I love how he is unashamed about being himself. Even though he goes on what seems like a tangent he’s always coherent. Well what proceeded was some sound career advice and some innuendo that seemed to be directed towards one of my class mates, so I’ll leave the rest alone. Just another example of how one of my favorite prof’s never lets me down. I started to use this story as a segue into how people will constantly compare themselves to others, but it’s going to take a two-parter that I’ll have to start sometime later.