(I thought I wrote about this before... well, it's still worth retelling.)

So some months ago, as part of finishing college, I was part of a Portfolio Show. Basically each graduating student gets a booth where they set up a table to feature their best work. Fashion students show off their clothes, design students show off logos and print, animations students show off 3D models and, well, animations, game art students show off a mod project...

I, being the first and only graduate of the Visual & Game Programming major, had quite a quandary. What the fuck does a programmer show? I certainly can't stream 12,000 lines of code on a screen. No one would get it. Plus, I want to be more than a programmer, so showing code wouldn't really show off my best work anyways. But I did my best. I ended up having quite the assortment of work, and I had a pretty popular demo of a prototype gossip simulator (which actually did not simulate gossip... but people really care more about how it looks... and it was entertaining to a crowd... so it worked well enough!)

So each person that attends, all the parents of the graduates, the employers looking for the best new guys to hire, hell... ANYONE that wants to come in off the street, they each get to vote for how good a booth is. Awards are given to the Best in Show in a variety of categories. People liked my stuff so you never know...

Time Passes and my school calls me up:
"CONGRATULATION YOU WON"

"What? I won an award for the Portfolio Show?"

"YES YOU WON BEST IN SHOW!! CONGRATULATIONS!"

..."Wow. That's awesome!" ... "Wait. Is that Best of Show for the whole show? Or just for my major?"

"JUST FOR YOUR MAJOR! HOORAY."

"Oh. I'm the only one in my major. I was the only graduate for VGP."

"CONGRATULATIONS!"

So yeah, I'm totally the best of one. Number 1 outta 1. Then they wanted to book me for their award show. I couldn't fathom the idea of accepting an award where I was the only participant.