So, rabid readers, it's been over a year since I last blogged, and too much has happened. Too bad I didn't take the time to let you know about it all. Oh well, I guess that means there's more opportunity for the creative rewrite.
I suppose the best way to (re)start the story to present a cross-section of my life, so here it is, like a raw cut of T-bone steak:
Summer (my lovely and adoring Wife) and I somehow ride out these grand economic squalls a in a ground floor, one bedroom, two window, nearly-perfectly-tiny cave of an apartment in San Carlos, California. Though I am normally claustrophobic, I like the size of our life raft because of it's feel, like a comfortable sweater complete with king-size mattress, refrigerator, couch and W.C.
During the daylight hours, I make my way as a professional 'Geek,' mending all form of Microsoft-related malady and bringing back countless PCs from Lazarus' Tomb. For my services, I net only just more compensation than last Spring, when I was stocking electrical fittings on warehouse shelves. Truly, the reward is in the victory.
At night, I am a student of Paralegal Studies at the College of Extended Learning, at San Francisco State University's Downtown Campus. State's PLS program bears the helm of Certification by the American Bar Association to issue 'ABA-Certified Paralegal' certificates to those whom successfully negotiate the gauntlet of mandatory Legal curricula.
For those of you who don't know, "A Paralegal is to an Attorney what a Nurse is to a Physician." (Jon-Erik Storm, Esq., 2008, Spike's Pub, San Luis Obispo, CA).
Summer and I claim no children... yet [Mom]. This is by choice. Deal.
My long-term goals: to make my wife and family happy; to work hard and reap a life of financial security; and to find my way into a career that will never cease to maintain my attention, curiosity, and enthusiasm. Though I am a tremendous geek, a quality wonk, and a (potentially) excellent engineer, I have chosen the practice of law to act as my method of interface with the world. Sure, should I continue working as a Geek, I could help people, but I would never be able to earn what would be needed or live up to my potential, and as an Engineer I could placate my lust to help solve the most esoteric problems of our world... but the practice of law principally affords the opportunity to do both, and perhaps with a far greater field of potential for greatness and positive effect upon the world.
So, there you have it. Bon appetit!
