My 88 year mother takes classes five days a week at the local Senior center (including aerobics three days a week, and works out on a machine the days she does not take aerobics). She is in a Senior Rock N' Roll choir, polticically active in left wing causes and goes to pay-what-you can at the opera and local theaters and also has lots of friends. I would call her quality of life pretty damn good.
Buffy: So how'd she get away with the bad mojo stuff? Anya: Giles sold it to her. Giles: Well, I didn't know it was her. I mean, how could I? If it's any consolation, I may have overcharged her.
'Sleeper'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Typo Boy - Jun 03, 2010 8:28:06 am PDT #3661 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Scrappy - Jun 03, 2010 8:31:56 am PDT #3662 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
My great-great-aunt Nan lived to be 91, and up until she had a fall at 90, she lived on her own, went to concerts and had a lively social life. She was a former librarian, and when told that she might not want to have a cataract operation at the age of 85, said to the doctor in indignation "Of COURSE I want the operation. How will I read?"
Nora Deirdre - Jun 03, 2010 8:33:07 am PDT #3663 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
I have a lot of old miserable people in my life- I'm jealous of y'all!
meara - Jun 03, 2010 8:33:35 am PDT #3664 of 30001
left wind causes
I read this and thought "isn't wind power pretty left wing already? Geez!" and then realized it was a typo for left wing. Doh.
Jesse - Jun 03, 2010 8:37:02 am PDT #3665 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My aforementioned grandmother is fairly sick of things (especially since she can't read anymore), but she still volunteers at the hospital every week!
Calli - Jun 03, 2010 8:37:15 am PDT #3666 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I'd be very happy to have my paternal grandfather's quality of life at 80. I'm dreading having my mom's quality of life at 74. Tithonus was a pretty good parable for framing the hope for a long life carefully.
Dana - Jun 03, 2010 8:45:58 am PDT #3667 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Oh, my god, self, do not read the comment thread on Consumerist when the subject is a business insulting fat people. YOU KNOW BETTER.
lisah - Jun 03, 2010 8:48:04 am PDT #3668 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
Oh, my god, self, do not read the comment thread on Consumerist when the subject is a business insulting fat people.
Oh! I bet I know what story that is. The cake company?
Aims - Jun 03, 2010 8:50:26 am PDT #3669 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
How else are people going to express their disgust at the fat people who just can't control their eating and aren't healthy and a drain on society and worse than lepers? Stop persecuting people, Dana. Sheesh.
Which, of course, is to say -- you know better, sillyhead!
§ ita § - Jun 03, 2010 8:52:57 am PDT #3670 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Clothes women like that men hate.
I dislike most of these clothes myself (no opinions on headbands--the male reasons given for hating them drive me up the wall, and I don't care one way or another about gladiator sandals, and I like tuxes).
At least the article leads with the presumption that it's advice for women trying to impress men with their clothes, not all women.