Fork in the Road of Life

Forks are definitely the most popular metaphorical roadside cutlery. Seldom, if ever, will you hear anyone mention they have a "spoon", "ladle", "electric can-opener" or a "chopstick" in the road of life. Indeed, look for the shot in the Muppet Movie where Kermit and Fozzie encounter a giant fork in the road on their sing-a-long ride to California.

And so it is now that I have a fork in the road. On one spoke, I have a job interview for an R & D position at Industrial Light & Magic (I.L.M) coming up. If that path follows through, I'd wind up back in San Francisco where I had resided from 1995 through 2003. Off another spoke, I could stay here in Los Angeles and pursue a part-time M.B.A. at UCLA (assuming I get accepted), presumably finding another software job. That had been my plan except that I'm not continuing my present contract (stupid corporate takeovers!)

Then there's always the "bizarro" spoke of the fork, where I would do something random, like start a band, or skurry off to Jamaica, Brazil, China or Europe for the rest of the year.

Typical usage of forks involves using all spokes at once, and there's a good chance I will get to do a little of everything.