 i didn't realize i was actually training myself for writing for television for writing for sitcoms because it was actually a form of practice but when i wasn't doing that the one or two weeks a year that we went on these cruises that my dad got us on because he was a salesman for canard line they were the moments of the year that i kind of lived for it was almost like i became another person i could step outside who i was in school or who i wasn't and i was invisible