What I want to be when I grow up

Yeah, if I was good enough to compete professionally, I would. I'd like nothing more than to swap stories with Dean Karnazes. He is my hero.

While living in SF, I became obsessed with this idea. I ended up flying to NY for an interview and tour of the French Culinary Institute in Manhattan. Then my dad, the restaurateur, whacked some sense into me.

I had visions of working with children with speech impairments. I looked into Masters programs in DC and realized that I'd be starting at the very bottom with pre-requisites I didn't have from college. Ho-hum.

This person helps kids with serious illnesses that have to leave their homes to live in hospitals (for long stays with painful treatments) cope with being away from home and adapt to living w/out their parents. Focus is on psychological adjustment as well as making sure they're receiving education and having fun.

From an article in Time magazine, 2000 "Fifteen years from now, your doctor will hand you a capsule packed with million of nanosensors, each programmed to seek out and kill cancer cells in your body. One day, autonomous "Nanobots" far smaller than motes of dust will patrol the body, repairing aging organs and fixing genetic damage before if can turn into disease" Fascinating! Too bad the brains in my family went to my cousin.

For those of you who have been to Lovejoy's in SF, you know why I wanted to run my own tea room. Honestly, not a whole lot of operating costs and SF has the perfect weather for it.