Can you eat with chopsticks?

I'm learning to use chopsticks. I've decided this will do a couple of things. 1) My waistline should improve dramatically since I usually get tired out before my plate is empty. 2) It will continue to improve my patience...I'm mean really, rice one piece at a time?

Bobby and I took a 5 day Carnival cruise to the Bahamas to celebrate his graduation. (Nice how I benefited from this gift, right?). Every night at 5:30 the sushi bar opened near the casino. Something about the clanging and dinging of the slot machines put enough excitement in the air to drive me to try using chopsticks in public. I was a disaster. Dropped rice and dripped soy sauce everywhere. Bobby was quick to point this out to me, as if I didn't already know I needed a little practice. But I'm stubborn, so every night I kept trying and he kept laughing. If you're expecting me to say here that with a little persistence I got the hang of it, ha! fooled you. No, all I learned was lesson #2 discussed above is not learned on a 5 day cruise during sushi hour.

In any case, as rumors continue to fly about on blogs regarding possible 16 to 18 month waits, I will continue my new chopstick diet and hope patience begins to feel as comfortable wiggling bamboo in my fingers.