syrinx

I just filled out my application for the Obama-Biden administration. I figured, I'm retired, I'm young, I just had a physical and it looks like I'm more or less healthy physically, so why not? Although I did hear news reports that there was a question about "are there any possibly embarrassing things about you in your past that we should know?" or that people were asked to submit all their electronic postings (like this I suppose) - but I didn't see that. Either I got a different form than those folks, or those folks were actually being considered for a position - I don't know - but anyway, I thought I would disclose in advance some possibly shameful things:

• I share the same birthplace as John McCain!(Panama Canal Zone)

• I once experimented with being a thespian! (during my junior year in high school I was in the class play)
• I used to dress up in a fancy hat and wave a big stick in a large field in front of a large crowd of people during ritualist ceremonies!(drum major)
• I was voted Most Intelligent by my high school class and was a National Merit Scholarship Finalist!(definitely an elitist intellectual, but not voted most likely to succeed...;-)
• I have conspired with an international group to help non-US citizens to cross our borders freely! (International Butterfly Migration Project)
• I recently collaborated with a Canadian over the Internet!(filed a patent)
• I am full of wit! (or as my therapist observed the other day, it looks like your sense of humor has returned...)(although I might observe, not that that's a good thing...)

Oh yeah, I have a "mood disorder" that no doubt is, as medical SCIENCE advances, we are beginning to understand is based on the complex interplay of genetic predisposition, environmental stresses, and physical and cognitive coping strategies that can be learned and practiced to deal with the underlying condition (humor being one of those strategies, medication another, counseling another). At least I''m not the President of the United States who thinks he has a mission from God to invade other countries. Although if I had abused alcohol and cocaine as much as some people are reported to have in their youth, I might think I have a mission from God as well. Thank God I'm an atheist.

tags: humor