Immunity Idol

So I was finally motivated to write a blog post after many months parched by the desert of graduate school. Unfortunately, grad school tends to suck any sort of normalness out of life.

I recently made a purchase of a particular collectible (aka Big-boy toy) I had been eyeing for quite a while. Many of you may recognize this collectible as a replica of the famous idol from the beginning of perhaps the greatest movie ever, Raiders of the Lost Ark. The idol is sculpted into a small pen/pencil holder for the perfect desk accessory. As I am always on the lookout for items to put in my future classroom, how could I pass up a pencil cup that would call to mind my favorite movie every day? Obviously I couldn't.

Unfortunately, there was a bit of a problem with the idol. If you look closely, there is a child coming out of the its nether regions, which thus labels the figurine as a fertility idol. Right now, however, we do not want anything in our house with the name "fertility" in any way attached to it. My desire for the item won out though when we came up with a suitable solution. The solution: The idol will forever be known in our house as an immunity idol, not a fertility idol. How better to ward off unwanted fertility by making sure that the idol represents everything opposed to fertility? So, from now on it's an immunity idol, and the child down there is just playing hide and seek.