I have an unusual occupation — I write fantasy for a living.\u00c2\u00a0 This means I’m succeeding in a field where lots of people try and fail, a field lots of people dream about working in.\u00c2\u00a0 I often talk to people who are impressed, who say they’d never have the nerve or persistence or creativity or whatever to be a full-time writer.<\/p>\n
Every so often I run into someone from my past who chose an even stranger field, one that strikes me as something I would never have dared to attempt, and that I never would have expected of the person in question.\u00c2\u00a0 There was a friend from high school who became a fine artist — he mostly shows at a gallery in Georgetown.\u00c2\u00a0 Another friend from high school now does special effects in Hollywood.\u00c2\u00a0 There was a guy named Norman who dropped out of Princeton to become a Formula One racer (and was pretty successful, last I heard).<\/p>\n
And I’ve just discovered that a woman who roomed across the hall from me at Princeton is now a professional psychic.\u00c2\u00a0 She loves it — she gets paid to talk on the phone.<\/p>\n
This is someone with a degree from Princeton — I think in either math or engineering, though I’m not certain.\u00c2\u00a0 And she’s a psychic.<\/p>\n
These are very strange days indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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