I intend to put a witty few paragraphs detailing how I came to be me, but that'll have to wait. For now, a summary.
I
was nerd and a dork in high school. For college, I went to the
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, which at the time was an all-male
school. My junior year I went to study in Hungary, and began a 3 year
period of intense de-dorking. I was a Fulbright scholar, and later
dropped out of grad school, swearing to never do math again, and moved
back to Hungary for a couple of years. Having become a suave
man-of-the-world super-playboy, I decided to return to the world of the
sane. A few years later I had a Ph. D., child, wife, and mutt (acquired
in reverse order).
After graduating in Illinois, I professed in
San Diego for 3 years, and then moved to New York City.
NYC has its ups and downs. What's with
all the trash on the streets? And why do 'yous' keep asking
"But what are you gonna do?"
and
"I know, itn it awful?"
and telling me to
"Fuhgeddaboutit!"?
There's a severe fatalism in New York City that I wasn't expecting.
Note: A friend has warned me that the dictionary
defines 'mutt' as "a stupid or insignificant person". That isn't what I
acquired! The second dictionary definition is "a mongrel dog". That's
what I meant. I swear.
