Joel Wedberg:  

Life So......There was some college, and then some working in the real world, and then more college. The college was San Diego State, the "real world" was the often bizarre world of working at a bank, Home Federal Saving and Loan. I left that bank and a year or so later it went belly up. Draw your own conclusions. I went to work at another bank for awhile - and it went belly up while I still was there. Again, draw your own conclusions. At the tender age of 32 I got a bachelor's degree in geophysics, specializing in earthquake seismology. (Yes, there are other kinds of seismology.) I started working on a Master's but abandoned it to go to U.S.C. in Smell A (Oops, I mean L.A.) to work on a Ph.D., which I did until my mother got Alzheimer's - which is a time SINK and which, among other things, drew my Ph.D. pursuit to a premature (pronounced, "un-suk-sess-full") close. A little more time and some unforgivably boring adventures later, I am in what I hope and calculate are the closing stages of a sort-of-geophysics Master's degree at Cal. State Northridge, which is in a part of L.A. they call (for some reason) Northridge. However, I live in an area called Eagle Rock in the close-knit farming community of Los Angeles. Will I try again for a Ph.D.? Will I be churned out of the college and into industry? Will I get a job teaching at a community college? (I have taught at Cal. State Dominguez Hills, Pasadena City College, and Occidental College, as well as teaching labs at U.S.C. and Cal. State Northridge, and looooooouuurrrv teaching college-age kiddies. I use a lot of humour and it ends up being the Joel Show with a captive audience...) Who knows? Who cares? Other things that have h...Expand for more