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[madbaker]

vittoriosa asked:

1. Best meal you've ever had?
   Masas for the wife's birthday a few years ago. The food was spectacular, the ambience lovely, the service attentive without being solicitious. The best three hours I've ever spent having a meal.
   ...I still want to hit the French Laundry though.


2. Who or what inspired you to pursue a career in your particular field?
   I was an Econ/Math major and I graduated in '91 when there were very few jobs to be had, especially in southern CA. An SCA friend worked for a mutual fund company and I started there as a phone rep taking transaction calls. I gradually moved into portfolio management from there.


3. How did you and your other half meet? :-)
   Brocc's South Bay dance practice.


4. Favorite theatrical role so far? Dream role?
   My best bit had to be my pants falling down onstage as Trivilino (huge audience laugh!) but I still look back on our high school production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, with a short German exchange student playing Mrs. Ratched. It was very, very intense. I played Cheswick, one of the other inmates.


5. Biggest moment of "culture shock" when you lived in France?
   Going to a private Jesuit school after a lifetime of public secular education? Not having breakfast?
   No, I think it was being told that showering every day was wasteful.