Many people spend their time on earth resisting some of the greater things in life, but some things are just too good to refuse.

Being the first to ski through a field of fresh powder or traveling through a valley in an obscure canyon are just a few of the things that are impossible for me to resist.And when it comes to food, who can pass up chocolate mousse - or any form of chocolate - even on a full stomach? I can't. Chocolate has always been my weakness.

I guess it started back a few years ago when I spent some time in Italy among the world's greatest lovers of fine food. After every meal, no matter how much pasta I ate, something sweet followed.

For fear of offending the hostess, I could not turn down a good dessert - especially chocolate.

And now back in the states the tradition continues at my house. After every meal comes the chocolate. There is always room for the rich dessert - it just fills in the cracks.

Several weeks ago I realized I was not the only one with a craving for chocolate. About 600 other people joined me in a chocolate feast at the fourth annual Temptations in Chocolate.

When sponsors of the evening, the Friends of the Provo Public Library, invited me to cover the event, it suddenly became a pleasure to work on a Saturday night. Who could resist free samples of brownies, ice cream, frozen yogurt, fudge, mint truffles, cookies, candy bars, suckers or chocolate milk?

The entire ballroom of the Excelsior Hotel was full of chocolate and chocolate lovers. That's where I met a group of people just like me.

Take the members of the Chocolate Club, for example. This exclusive club, consisting of only six members (because most chocolate desserts shouldn't be cut in more than six pieces) is made up of a handful of employees in the Brigham Young University Library Circulation Dept.

"Chocolate is not a temptation, it's an obsession," said Kim Smith, vice president of the Chocolate Club.

The club meets every Friday at noon to exchange chocolate recipes and pig out on a chocolate dessert. To make it into the club, there are several criteria to meet:

-First of all, one of the six members has to quit.

-Then your chocolate treat has to pass taste tests of the other members.

-Chocolate has to be the main ingredient in the dessert.

-No raisins are allowed.

-Nuts have to be pre-approved by the club president before they can be included.

And then there was Charlie Eads (not Eats). He came all the way from Salt Lake City for the chocolate. During an ice-cream-eating contest, he downed 41/2 Baskin-Robbins sundae bars in seven minutes.