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.
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.
Calli - Mar 07, 2006 8:48:31 am PST #2363 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
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
information libertarian
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.
ChiKat - Mar 07, 2006 8:59:22 am PST #2372 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Also, in 5 years I'll be 38. Ugh.
I'm with Calli. I'm 38 and it's been a pretty great year thus far.