Mary, I'll bet you would have been better at it than I was.
Patricia, thank you for the compliment, and I hope nothing I wrote here could be construed as disrespect to animators. The artists I know who have some animation history do very fine work indeed. Now I'm just waiting for Cynthia to start a "Cartoons and Caricatures" Forum category.
Heidi, you're right, I'm terribly lucky on all counts. One of the benefits of living in the Jurassic Period was that college was easier to get into than it is today.