I've always wondered: If you are that smart, do you grow up wanting to use your brain for something huge and important? Or, because you *can* think in a certain way (and family/people probably push you in that direction)is it just the natural progression?

Because what if he could be a really great dancer or veterinarian or gossip columnist, but he never gets to find out because he is always in math class?!

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We've already seen what happens when people who don't really care about the economy start sticking their fingers in the pie--investment bankers, I'm lookin at you.

I wish everyone had the freedom and opportunity to pursue what they love. The world would be in much better shape. But then, I'm a dreamer.

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Shame on them.

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Teachers were always talking about how she should end up winning a Nobel prize, or do some other really prestigious thing. What pressure for a kid! She was extremely smart, but do they know how RARE it is to win the Nobel prize even if you probably are a genius? I think it's unfair to put a child in that position, no matter how smart they are.

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Ann Curry drives me to drink. I saw her in the street, once, in front of Union Square, and she was yakking on her phone, with an ear piece in. Even in a casual setting, and trying to be semi-incognito, and she had that faux-concerned, annoying tone, and I believe she was making an appointment for her hair or something. I wanted to scream and rip that thing out of her ear.

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