Major life decisions mostly happen in a really random, happenstance way

On Thanksgiving, I went to an annual party (I think its in its twentieth or so year) thrown by one of my dad's college friends and had a great time hanging out at the top of the TransAmerica pyramid. Anyway, since I hadn't been in the area for awhile, I got a number of questions about what I was doing nowadays. And I had a number of people asking why I …