The Desert Mermaid

I was a gifted kid, and people kept saying I should teach math when I grew up since I liked it so much. That always struck me as an incredibly stupid idea - if I understand something intuitively, I'm the worst person in the world to try to explain it to kids that *don't* get it. Plus, you know, the idea of going into a career where I constantly had to deal with the sorts of children who made my childhood miserable because I was "too smart" somehow just didn't appeal to me.