I am singing Schoolhouse Rock in my head as we speak. "Interjection! Excitement! And Emotion!"

Hah! Me too! "Interjections! Show excitement, or emotion! And are generally set apart from a sentence by an exclamation point, or by a comma if the feeling's not as strong..."

I hope I'm not slinging paperwork when I'm 65. I wish I could work in education or public affairs. I'm just not the right type or am missing some integral skillset I can't put my finger on.

People not retiring, or retire-rehiring, is a huge issue at the EPA. Where mr. flea worked, he was very young, at 42! They closed the child care center because no employees except us and one other family had small children.

I have gray hair, and it's fine color-wise, but it's so curly and stands up and it's been coming in this way for 5 years now and I still don't know how to deal with it.

It's an issue, I think, because of the stock market crash.

Oh, absolutely. The combination of actual financial need and good health, etc. My mother (66) keeps saying she doesn't know what she would do, since she has no hobbies.

Ha, I'm trying to imagine you as a teacher, and not to say you don't have the smarts to be a good one, but I think your head would LITERALLY (yep, really explode) over the WTFF fuckwaddery present in the field.

people, develop hobbies!

happy to make people snort.

Does anyone here write thru in their normal writing, like business writing?

Hell, no.

My mother retired at 70 and moved to a college town where they had a special school for retired people. She took classes, got out and socialized, even took some field trips.

No, fuck no, no to the nth.

ETA that was to msbelle, not to developing hobbies.