OMG I’m behind again on my Blog Fodder questions. Here’s #10 and later in the week I’ll catch up.

If you could go back in time and choose your career, what would it be?

This is so easy, and I think about it all the time. I would love to go to law school.

Now I don’t want to hear any snickering. I know how lots of people feel about lawyers. They’re easy to make fun of, and the lawyer jokes I’ve heard are all pretty funny.

But when I think about what really interests me, it’s the law. I’m a total C-SPAN junkie. I could watch the House and Senate all day long, and sometimes do. I love hearing the Supreme Court Oral Argument recordings they play form time to time.

And it’s not like I want to be a courtroom lawyer or anything. I’d much rather be involved in some kind of legislative/policy kind of thing. I know this a lame way to think about it, but when I look at the characters on L.A. Law and compare them to the characters on The West Wing, I feel like I identity more with the latter. Sam, Josh, Toby — they’re all Lawyers.

And no, I don’t have some kind of Rob Lowe or Bradley Whitford fixation. You don’t see me wanting to be a TV executive like Danny on Studio 60, do you? Hey, is it true Richard Schiff is on that show, too? I got that from TV.com

But I digress. What else is new?

I’d love to go to law school, but (1) I can’t afford it, and (2) there isn’t one close by, and (3) even if there was, it would be a tough thing to fit into my busy schedule. Wifey is supportive of this dream of mine, and that’s nice, but that doesn’t make it any easier to achieve.

It’s something that really feels like a missing piece of my life, though. And every now and then it makes me really sad.