Three short stories sounds great until you get hit with a question that doesn't match any of them and now you're stuck trying to jam a square peg in a round hole. Rehearsing gets a bad rap, at least you know your material cold instead of scrambling mid call. Honestly I'd rather have ten memorized answers and one that's a little stiff than three stories and a long awkward pause.

Ha, that gym sock phase is no joke. I remember my first starter smelled like a wet basement for almost two weeks and I kept it next to the coffee maker just so I would not have to think about it. Funny how the fix is usually just less food, not more.

Learning that a shorter cut can feel more like the book totally flipped my view too.