See if you can follow here, genius: I mentioned said degree initially only in response to another poster, whom I had not addressed in any way, personally insulting me and implying I had no accomplishments in life, or something of the sort (that post has been weeks ago now - I realize some of you have no life and probably have every post here memorized, but I actually work for a living). Then the poster to whom I responded a couple days ago with further details on my degree, implied that said degree was only an online degree from Hopkins.
I was merely correcting a fool in his foolishness.
And if you think writers don't brag, you really know absolutely nothing about writers. Writers are a notoriously arrogant lot, and generally the better the writer the more arrogant he is. If you read Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, he basically says that as long as humans are on this earth they'll be reading his words - and he's right. Hemingway had an ego bigger than the continental U.S., and he could back it up.