Who are you, and what do you do?

[TheRealJoeFish]

Hi! I'm Joe (that's that the J in TRJF means :-o). I'm 25 and live in northeastern Pennsylvania.

For most of my life, I was the consummate mathlete, going all over the state and doing math competitions in middle school and high school. At college, I studied - whaddya know? - mathematics, and kept mathing. Math.

I always planned on becoming a math professor, but all the Putnam exams and undergrad research and being lazy really wore me out. So, around my junior year, I sort of thought: "what could I do that's not math?" I wanted to settle on something that involved: thinking and reading and writing and talking and getting to know people and getting some money.

Boom. Lawyer.

I went to law school and, after a transfer (to basically cash in my good first-year grades, which were the product of the first and last year I've ever worked hard in my life) found myself a just-about-full fledged lawyer this year. Crazy stuff.

Quite frankly, what I'd like to do most in life is write. Literature. For a living. But I done went and got myself into some debt, and lawwing pays the bills a little more steadily.

I like to play chess and all sorts of other games. In my spare time I am an amateur sports statistician, and this past fall I wrote a weekly column on high school football. I am NOT a city person (my hometown's about 5,000 people), and during the two years I lived in a city I counted down the days until I could leave. Now that I'm in a somewhat less urban environment, I'm relaxed and loving life.

Now, if I could just lose some damn weight...