I heard John Stewart, the smarmy wise-guy comedian, interviewed a few days ago. He was talking about his childhood, and the interviewer asked him what I had wanted to do, essentially to attract attention, when he was in High school. He said that he had hoped to be an athlete, and the interviewer acted surprised that he would have considered something so...conventional. To which he replied :

"Well you have to remember, this was back in the days before everyone was special."

I had to laugh.