ita, get offa my lawn.
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Lee - Mar 07, 2006 8:43:57 am PST #2356 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
DavidS - Mar 07, 2006 8:44:40 am PST #2357 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'll be 40!
Hmph.
Scrappy - Mar 07, 2006 8:45:53 am PST #2358 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Standing with Hec in the "saying goodbye to the 40s" corner.
JZ - Mar 07, 2006 8:46:25 am PST #2359 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Also, in 5 years I'll be 38. Ugh.
What-EV. I'll be 38 in a hair under 4 months.
My evaluations are fairly painless (though pointless, as nobody in admin or clerical on the university side has gotten a raise in 3-4 years). The only stressy thing is that my boss keeps wanting me to take accounting classes. I would rather push rusty nails through my lower lip.
sarameg - Mar 07, 2006 8:46:40 am PST #2360 of 10001
You know what? I don't think I ever knew your exact age before, msbelle. Funny.
The numbers don't get me. Except when they are funny and cliches that I don't really buy into happen. How quickly I can burn through a decade, now that can alarm me....
§ ita § - Mar 07, 2006 8:46:59 am PST #2361 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's like a cascade of curmudgeonness.
I, for the record, don't mind being about to be 38. Except for the part where it terrifies me that I haven't done enough yet. But I've (honestly) been feeling that way since I was ten, so I'm thousands of dollars of therapy away from not having that panic.
msbelle - Mar 07, 2006 8:48:03 am PST #2362 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I will not EAT IT!
You people can express dismay at whatever age you'll be, too. In my pea-sized brain I am (depending on the day) either 22 or 30.
Calli - Mar 07, 2006 8:48:31 am PST #2363 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I am 38, AIFG. It would be FGer if I had more money, property, and a love weasel to call my own. But still, it's pretty durned good.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 07, 2006 8:50:13 am PST #2364 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
EAT IT, both of you.
What Perkins said.
Signed,
Turning 40 in July.
p.s. Back in my day, 5 years was always in dog years! Chew on that, whippersnapper!
msbelle - Mar 07, 2006 8:50:15 am PST #2365 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Except for the part where it terrifies me that I haven't done enough yet.
perzactly.
But I've (honestly) been feeling that way since I was ten, so I'm thousands of dollars of therapy away from not having that panic.
you should get started on paying off that therapy bill.
I don't care about the age thing, it just seems odd. People never think I am as old as I am and I never lie about my age.