I have a propensity to get bored easily and, when bored, to ask a lot of questions. It's a combination that has enabled (or, arguably, forced) me to collect careers and experiences the way some people collect stamps. I blame this on two pivotal events that occurred on the same day in the fifth grade: My first attempt at writing comedy was met with tears of laughter from my creative writing teacher and classmates and later that afternoon, I was asked to leave the Girl Scouts because of a tendency to conduct analytical deconstructions of the leader's decisions. These combined events became the foundation of a career path that has lurched rather than meandered through a series of jobs linked only by my often under-appreciated skill at finding the humor in any situation, and my audacity in writing about it.