Had dinner tonight with a theater friend from college. We were never close but still keep up on Facebook and hey, I'm in her city. I'm so jealous of her house and her sewing space! So cool!! And it was so weird because to me she still looks just the same, though with slightly different hair. But her husband is three years younger than her (and she's a year younger than me) and I thought he looked old. Which makes me suspect she and I also look old, but still see each other/ourselves as we looked when younger?
And I wonder, what possible catastrophe came crashing down from heaven and brought this dashing stranger to tears?
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 74: Ready or Not
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
meara - Jul 07, 2015 5:53:35 pm PDT #438 of 30003
Jesse - Jul 07, 2015 6:09:54 pm PDT #439 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Nah, I think mid 30s-50s are the ages when people can look the most drastically different "for their age." Is he balding? That's a big one for aging men.
Calli - Jul 08, 2015 1:37:40 am PDT #440 of 30003
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
There was an article in the news yesterday saying that certain aging markers (I forget which--things like BP, maybe?) differed significantly for different people. So maybe he's aging faster than you, meara.
ETA: Here's the article. [link]
Hil R. - Jul 08, 2015 2:27:46 am PDT #441 of 30003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm in Maine this week, and the law here is that they have to card anyone who looks under 30, and I've been carded every time I've ordered a drink. So I at least look under 30.
meara - Jul 08, 2015 2:48:20 am PDT #442 of 30003
Oh sure--she just went to 15 year reunion and the girls tend to look a lot less different than the boys, that's for sure. But even still--it's not that if I'd seen him out I would've thought he was 40 rather than 34, just...
Sue - Jul 08, 2015 3:36:17 am PDT #443 of 30003
hip deep in pie
A friend of mine always says that men's looks change more drastically than women's as they age. They tend to get fatter, greyer, balder. Partly it's that they feel less pressure to try to look younger or mask the signs of aging.
Jesse - Jul 08, 2015 4:14:18 am PDT #444 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Truth.
Although, I was sitting near what I'm pretty sure was a husband and wife and their many kids on the plane the other day, and I would have put her as much older than him, despite (because of?) her dyed hair and "cute" style.
In continuing vacation news, today my mother and I are making the annual pilgrimage to her hometown in Rhode Island for fried clams! Her cousin and husband are meeting us there.
tommyrot - Jul 08, 2015 4:26:24 am PDT #445 of 30003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
My mom has already forgotten that my sister and I visited her last weekend. Sad now.
Dana - Jul 08, 2015 4:32:36 am PDT #446 of 30003
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Someone in training just whined "But that's one more thing we'll have to remember to do!"
I would either make a terrible manager or the world's best manager, because my mental response is "SUCK IT UP. IT'S YOUR JOB."
JZ - Jul 08, 2015 5:10:54 am PDT #447 of 30003
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I'm so sorry, tommy. I'm glad you have consolation at hand in the form of a cat and a lovely neighbor who writes cat diaries and wants to make out with you, even if neither of those is the same consolation as your mother remembering would be. All sorts of (platonic, non-making-out) hugs and punctuation.
Bleh. Do not want to go to work. Leaving at noon anyway, but really just want to get a jump-start on it by not going in at all.