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.
Don't you just love this party? Everything's so fancy, and there's some kind of hot cheese over there.
Kaylee ,'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.
Betsy HP - Mar 07, 2006 8:52:48 am PST #2367 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
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.
msbelle - Mar 07, 2006 9:01:04 am PST #2373 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
you feel guilt for not having stuff you don't even want and you won't get into therapy?
mmm ok.
§ ita § - Mar 07, 2006 9:02:04 am PST #2374 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I am no age. It doesn't matter. Somehow I separate it from all the time the psycho part of my head thinks I've wasted.
Scrappy - Mar 07, 2006 9:02:45 am PST #2375 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I find my feeling about my age differs with where I am in my life. The last couple of years have been difficult in several ways, and I had times where I felt old. This year is off to a much better start and the process of turning 50 no longer feels bad or final and I feel younger. So go figure.
Vonnie K - Mar 07, 2006 9:02:58 am PST #2376 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
OK, fly-by-ing here to share a strip from Questionable Content (OMG so horribly addictive) because of the Buffistas-ness of it all: [link] Although it strikes me as too on-the-money not to have been linked to from here in the past.
It's like the pictorial representation of the genesis of AIFG!