idiosyncrasies:

An excerpt from the Wikipedia article on Stephan Pastis, creator of Pearls Before Swine:
Pastis was raised in San Marino, California and attended the University of California at Berkeley, earning a B.A. in Political Science in 1989, followed by UCLA School of Law.From 1993, Pastis worked as a litigation attorney in the San Francisco Bay area.
This man went to Cal, went to law school, worked as an attorney in the bay, then went on to write a comic strip.  Someone is already living my dream life.

idiosyncrasies:

An excerpt from the Wikipedia article on Stephan Pastis, creator of Pearls Before Swine:

Pastis was raised in San Marino, California and attended the University of California at Berkeley, earning a B.A. in Political Science in 1989, followed by UCLA School of Law.

From 1993, Pastis worked as a litigation attorney in the San Francisco Bay area.

This man went to Cal, went to law school, worked as an attorney in the bay, then went on to write a comic strip.  Someone is already living my dream life.