I am 45, work full-time as an administrative aide for Los Angeles County Office of Education, working for a program called AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination), which helps junior high and high school students get better prepared for college - cool program to work for!

I have a B.A. Degree in Applied Mathematics from California State University, Fullerton (CSUF), and also extended education certificates in digital animation and video/computer game design, also from CSUF.

I may need to take more game/level design/programming courses before I can change careers; that's if I really want to work more than 40 hours a week, which most animators/game programmers, etc. work. It would be really cool to work on fun video games and/or movies, however.

What else, I am single and never been married - still hoping to get married someday - I need to check out some of those dating services soon; I have been busy with my new work assignment in the AVID program.

I attend the Vineyard Christian Fellowship Church in Anaheim, CA, really close to where I live in Yorba Linda, which is in Orange County, CA; very good church, great music and good pastors/members.

I first started reading the Wheel of Time back in 1992 or 1993 when I received the 3rd book, TDR, from the Science Fiction Book Club - it was one of their main selections at the time, and it was automatically sent to me when I forgot to fill out the reply form. So, when I realized it was book 3, I quickly went out and bought TEOTW & TGH in paperback, and after reading the prologue to TEOTW, I was completely hooked, and I read through the 1st 2 books very quickly.

I've re-read the series quite a few times (10 or 12 times through, at least for books 1 - 8), and like many other wheel of time fans, I have tried to reread the entire series through before a new book comes out in the series.

Brandon Sanderson has done an awesome job in completing the series, and I really hope Universal Pictures and Red Eagle Entertainment will start filming the live action movies for the series next year in 2011! If the Harry Potter books can generate 8 movies for 7 books, then universal/red eagle should be able to make at least 3 or 4 movies for a 14 book series!

I'm hoping that for the tour for the final book, AMOL, that Brandon will be able to come out to Los Angeles, so I can congratulate him in person for the awesome job he has done. I don't remember seeing Los Angeles listed for any of the book tours for TOM. Orange County isn't too far from Los Angeles.

God bless and take care, everyone.

Larry Carrigan

Yorba Linda, CA

10-1-2010