Day 810 of 1000

I flew back to Phoenix yesterday morning after four days of frenetic activity in downtown San Francisco.  We made lots of progress, but I am very happy to get back to life at a saner pace.  I fly so much, I get bumped to first class on semi-regularly now.  Something else new is that I have been tagged as TSA pre-check so getting through the security process is much easier now.

So I sat by a nice lady on the plane who has two children in high school.  One of them loves math and plans to do an engineering degree in college.  The other is great at math, but her mom is encouraging her to get a degree in film because she is so creative and has put up some amazing videos of her friends on Youtube.  What is wrong with this picture?  We were in a long enough conversation that it came out that our daughter, Kelly, is a quite good artist, but is also a pretty good mathematician.  It came up that I discouraged Kelly from an undergraduate degree in anything in the liberal arts, but that she plans to do something that could very well use her art skills in her graduate work.  My seatmate was a little bit offended and ended the conversation shortly after that.  It was nice to get caught up on my reading after that.