A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins...

My adventure has begun. I'm blogging from Los Angeles, in the midst of (gasp) a college party. I'm staying with my brother. This morning I had an admission interview at a prominent Southern California business school. It went well, but I felt tense and uncomfortable in the suit. I'm still not used to standing tall, collecting business cards, gladhanding, and shmuzing. Reminds me a little of those first few weeks of teaching, when I was just weeks out of college and would look at myself in the mirror at 6 in the morning, tie around my freshly-shaven neck. The thought in my head would be, "There's Mr. F____." It was an identity I was not yet comfortable with. It took most of a year to comfortably integrate my teaching persona into my overall personality, to be relaxed in front of a class. I guess it will be the same with wearing a suit and a smile.