I haven’t mentioned it much on this site, but I studied advertising in college. It’s what I thought I wanted to do when I grew up, and it was all I talked about during the interview for the scholarship that my high school awarded my senior year, which I won. I did actually spend an entire year of my life at an advertising agency, McCann Erickson in Houston. Of course, I wasn’t doing anything like what I had gone to school to do. I tired of it quickly, and was very glad when that place was in my rear view mirror.