Geoffrey Linehan:  

ith someone that popular. Then as I shared more with her, more than I had shared with anyone except my best friends, it seemed like a healthy release. Here was somebody who cheered me up as a child, now so cute and giggley. Whatever the experience, I wrote poetry for the first time and the creative energy was so adept. That opening up was fleeting, because after graduation everybody left. I lost that potential for friendship. I still think about it sometimes. That's why having a nice Reunion meant a lot to me. It was soured by something in particular, but there were nice moments and some people did approach me as I hoped they would in high school. College I was admitted to Syracuse University, already in mind to major in both tv-radio-film and political science. Aside from my studies, new interests flourished, or at least the old ones developed. I studied these new interests just as hard as my classwork: M-theory and relativistic physics, computer programming, and Egyptology. For anyone who's curious, my favorite pharoah is Akhenaten, for perhaps obvious reasons. He overturned the basic religions of Egypt in favor of Sun worship and relocated to a new city capitol. M-theory is the leading field of physics, trying to understand the entire universe in very unified terms. My long interest in Star Trek was what inspired interest in physics. I wanted to figure out how a warp drive system could practically be accomplished. The same goes for the holodeck. There's been some progress. I've had a talent for drawing, so that's what prompted an interest in computer programming. I enjoy conceiving and developing video games. Plus it's lucrative. I also practiced Japanese and Russian, in addition to coursework in Hebrew. During college, I also studied as many government documents as possible: budgets, departmental organization, legislation, etc. This project of putting together a presidential agenda actually had begun at the end of high school. I wrote legislative texts, speeches, a budget, campaign strategy, etc. What I most liked about the agenda is that it fit a coherent vision for the future. It also mimiced the administration of my favorite president, Kennedy. Some of the items on my agenda were actually being achieved by President Clinton so I wondered what I'd be left with. Any one of them takes a lot of effort to pass, so that would just let me focus more effort on the remainder. I also noticed some mistakes which proved to trip up Clinton. Of course, a nostalgia for 80's entertainment, particularly music, developed. Oh, and I must mention 1930's screwball comedy became one of my favorite genres. Amidst this, I also wrote several feature film scripts. There was also an urge to relocate to L.A. and start that entertainment career like you wouldn't believe. Years culminating, waiting to be part of something big.