He was good to me, but I think I kind of pissed him off at one point. It was my fault.
I only earned an A.M. I did not apply to the Ph.D program for several reasons, but one of them was a reasonable expectation I would not get in, because I was even then a cranky, curmudgeonly human being. I was smart enough, but grumpy.
The river keeps flowing for all of us. We can move our boats left or right, but we can’t stop the tide of time. I am downstream from decisions made then. They were the correct decisions. Some of my curmudgeonliness was warranted. I was a man in the wrong place.
I have never stopped chasing my golden Snitch, though. I can say that honestly. It has evaded me, but I have never stopped chasing, and I continue both to get closer, and to get better at my closing skills.