Navigating Second Life as an obese man

My professor challenged us to change our appearance in Second Life to someone fitting some kind of stereotype. I decided to make my avatar heavier, or at least as heavy as Second Life would allow me to make myself. At first I thought this challenge might be a bit interesting, but then realized that it wasn't very challenging at all.
After navigating through Second Life for a bit, I tried to make myself visible to all the other newbies, as I was still on Orientation Island. Being that I was now larger, I also tried to get the attention of other avatars by deliberately bumping them. I did this because I figured I was larger and they might be intimidated. It didn't necessarily work. People would still just rush off as they had when I was just a slender avatar. I'm wondering if I should have done more, such as giving myself some kind of handicap. I just didn't know if it was possible to do so.
It just seemed to me that the more I tried, the more I realized that the discussions we had in class regarding the time and effort Second Life took, was true. I'm a very lively person, and always the social one. So for me to try and talk, or even meet someone as an avatar, just didn't do anything for me. There was no thrill in it. It's been time consuming and just plain uninteresting, but all in all, a different experience. I think I'm glad I at least gave it a shot.
I hope that others who find Second Life more interesting than I did, are able to have a good time and enjoy the experience. It just wasn't what I was expecting.

Twitter to Casa Blanca (The White House)

President Obama, I'm worried. I'm worried because our country is trillions of dollars in debt, yet we're creating bailout plans for major corporations, that I can only imagine will use this money selfishly to help themselves and then get themselves back into the very same mess we helped them get out of. Is this really wise? I say we look into ways to ensure our economic growth, especially seeing as to how bad a state we're currently in. How sure are we that these bailouts are not a way of allowing these corporations to get themselves into further trouble later down the road?