You know what? I don't think I ever knew your exact age before, msbelle. Funny.
The numbers don't get me. Except when they are funny and cliches that I don't really buy into happen. How quickly I can burn through a decade, now that can alarm me....
Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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.
sarameg - Mar 07, 2006 8:46:40 am PST #2360 of 10001
§ ita § - Mar 07, 2006 8:46:59 am PST #2361 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's like a cascade of curmudgeonness.
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. 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.
msbelle - Mar 07, 2006 8:48:03 am PST #2362 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I will not EAT IT!
You people can express dismay at whatever age you'll be, too. In my pea-sized brain I am (depending on the day) either 22 or 30.
Calli - Mar 07, 2006 8:48:31 am PST #2363 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
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.
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.