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.
Simon: Captain's a good fighter, he must know how to handle a sword. Zoe: I think he knows which end to hold.
'Shindig'
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.
msbelle - Mar 07, 2006 8:48:03 am PST #2362 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
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.
sarameg - Mar 07, 2006 8:51:31 am PST #2366 of 10001
The fact that my brother is 27, now THAT is freaky.
Betsy HP - Mar 07, 2006 8:52:48 am PST #2367 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
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.
Which is why the death of Dana Reeve, at 44, hit me so hard this morning. Lung cancer, and she was a lifelong non-smoker.
Toddson - Mar 07, 2006 8:53:39 am PST #2368 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
For knitters, how's this for your next project (PDF).
§ ita § - Mar 07, 2006 8:54:52 am PST #2369 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
you should get started on paying off that therapy bill.
Girlfriend, I'm never having it.
Fact is, I started out feeling like an underacheiver when I was as much of a prodigy as I was ever going to be. Now that I'm a more average specimen, well now it's just more true, isn't it? Where's my PhD? My seat on advisory boards? My black belt (okay, maybe I can pull that off next year, but I still won't think I'm a good enough black belt, I can assure you)? My two children? My house? My three dogs? My...I dunno. Other stuff that I'm not even sure I want.
That's just how it goes. I tried to push my sister into doing stuff because she had a three year lead on being a whizkid. When she refused to read the bible at age 7 I knew I had a fight on my hands. But she graduated summa cum laude from McGill and got a full ride to Cambridge and then some of a ride there for her PhD.
God, what if she's my greatest achievement?
Yikes.
flea - Mar 07, 2006 8:56:19 am PST #2370 of 10001
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To clarify, I don't think 38 is old, per se, and I have no doubt I'll be fine once I go through the gradual increments of getting there year by year. The mental jump of adding 5 years all at once is the weird part.
Also, in my mind I am still 28 and expect to be for a while. I think it is my One True Age.
Jesse - Mar 07, 2006 8:58:42 am PST #2371 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
What's fun about being in school is that I can guarantee my life will be drastically different five years from now. However, I'm hoping it's also drastically different from five years ago.