this...

...is awesome. IHOP! Who would have known?? I cut out the boring stuff...

Texas' Michael Huff is the top safety prospect in the 2006 NFL draft. He writes a weekly draft diary for SportingNews.com.

The whole process of training and getting ready for the Combine isn't anything new to me since I'm used to working this hard. We certainly didn't take it easy at the University of Texas. So the transition to draft preparation hasn't been that drastic.

I did get the chance recently to take the Wonderlic test, and man, was that interesting. It's a 12-minute exam consisting of 50 questions that are supposed to test your problem-solving skills and aptitude for learning. I don't know what a lot of those questions had to do with my job playing safety on Sundays, but if NFL teams want to know what kind of animal I want to be, a cat or a dog, then I guess I'm all for taking the test.

Since the draft is quickly approaching, I've been thinking about what I'll buy with my first professional paycheck. A lot of people are probably expecting me to say that I'd buy a big house, and that's partly true. But it's not what you think. The first house I buy will be the one with the blue roof on it that says "IHOP." It has been a dream of mine to own my own International House of Pancakes, and someday I will. Just last week I ate there five or six times, and about every time I got the same thing, pancakes and shrimp. It's a cool feeling to know that someday I'll get to eat at my IHOP whenever I want.