I wish I looked a bit older, just because it seems like a lot of people will look at me and treat me as a teenager, and it gets aggravating.

Oh, sweetie, I SO hear you. It hasn't been until the last couple of years that I have finally looked old enough that that is less of a problem. No one ever understood why I was so excited to turn a year older each year.

My dad got beat up by a 6 year old.

Of course, the next year, he beat her up.

(tae kwon do while they were amatuers and still learning to pull their punches. Kid learned faster.)

I saw a pair of med students in the elevator today who just made me sad -- no, really. Two young women with stethoscopes and resident IDs at the ready, weighed down with patient records and dosage crib notes and scribbled rounds notes bristling out of every pocket, and both of them shorter than Hil and slender and wispy looking, with the kind of ageless faces that when coupled with short and slender totally read as "twelve, thirteen and a half tops." Looking at them, you could just tell that they were trying extra hard to dress like grown-ups and look fierce and old and that the next person to crack a Doogie Howser joke was going to get an unpleasant surprise.

The timing of this whole conversation is weirdly charming, given the thread title.

Aaand then there are the "teenagers" on WAT. Um, sure.

JZ, that was my first trip to the doctor here. I was in my early 20s. She looked younger than I.

JZ just described the medical student that sat in on Owen's birth. She was so wee and cute I couldn't refuse when she asked to watch.

On WAT, I didn't think that was right. Here is a link spoilery for a plot point.

Medical inaccuracies or not, WAT made me cry. A little bit of Joni Mitchell, and I'm a goner.

Oh hell yeah, Vonnie.

However, Jon Stewart now has me crying....with LAUGHTER!

However, Jon Stewart now has me crying....with LAUGHTER!

Oh dear god YES!!! The photoshop items!!!!! TED KENNEDY!!!!