The worldwide drinking day is here! Yup - you guessed it - it's St. Patty's Day.

Fanshawe College will be open, but my guess is that the only thing roaming the halls will be tumbleweeds. Students will most likely be up at the crack (no pun intended) of dawn to begin their festivities, but I caution you, don't start your day off with liquor and beer... instead a true Irish breakfast which consists of farm fresh eggs with the sunniest of yolks along with sausage, eggs, back bacon, grilled tomatoes, black pudding and white pudding. On the side is Irish brown bread served with sweet Irish butter and famous Irish preserves. Top off breakfast with a cup of a medium-rich Irish breakfast tea and put in lots of milk.

Now if you are a student like me and don't feel like making this monstrous meal why don't you try another traditional Irish breakfast...WHICH IS EVERYTHING GREEN!!!! Basically you buy green food colouring and put it in absolutely everything you eat that morning. I am talking pancakes, scrambled eggs, milkshakes you can even buy green dyed bagels. You can't turn sausages green but why not put green food colouring on them for fun too. You know if you go to the pub that day you are going to find green beer so you might as well keep with the green theme.

The only caution I give you is do not eat/drink too much green food colouring because you will wake up to a beautiful Irish surprise, which will have you scared at first sight and wanting to go to the doctors, until you realize it was St. Patty's day and you consumed copious amounts of green food colouring.

Doctors also say that green poop is caused by an over consumption of iron. The body won't be able to absorb all the iron, so it will excrete iron salts. Iron is found in enriched breakfast cereals, red meat, beans, spinach, baby formula and supplements. But come on people, don't waste a trip to the doctors, because you have Dr. Hillis right here...you have green poop because you drank WAY too many green beers!

If you want to get into pubs like Molly's and Poachers Arm's you are going to have to be one of those die-hard Irishman/women and get up early... say 6 a.m., eat your Irish breakfast, then proceed to have some beverages (preferably the ones of the non-alcoholic persuasion for the FSU's sake), don't forget to shower and put on your Sunday best, which is also known as something GREEN - Because you are going to have to be there by noon at the latest.

Fanshawe, the last thing to remember on this wonderful St. Patty's day is to eat green, drink green, have fun... but most of all BE SAFE because we are all here to have fun!
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