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[ogrevi]

Today winter officially ended in Richmond. It was sunny and beautiful, and the temperature hit 80 for the first time this year. I’ve been happy all day, but that doesn't mean I can’t complain about work

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[reallyamermaid]

Yes, I expect you'll get plenty of use out of that.

[ogrevi]

The original said, "Hey, you lousy kids! Get off my damned lawn!" but I decided that was too clichéd.
Extremely fast reaction time, by the way. I realized right away that I'd spelled a word incorrectly, and by the time I'd fixed it, here you were.

[ogrevi]

for some reason, I got no e-mail notifying me you'd commented. Have you? Gotten notification that I'd commented, I mean?

[reallyamermaid]

Yep.

[mrs_prufrock]

A 10th grader wanted to ask me if I would text her Sunday night to remind her to bring her outline for her paper. But first, she said: "Do you know how to text people?"

[ogrevi]

Heh. And you're a good bit younger than me. That makes me feel better.

[dadadadio]

As a half-centennarian I have similar tales of youngsters assuming I'm not up to speed. In one terse reply I said "Hey kiddie, I had email when you were shitting your diapers."

I try not to be crotchety but I can't help it. I remind myself how young and clueless they are, as I once was, and how they'll someday be old and clueless as I am.

[ogrevi]

They can't possibly be as clueless as I was when I was twenty, I don't think, but they are rather more thoughtless.
One of them commented on the ridiculous variety of music I have on my iPod a few weeks ago, and I said, "Well, honey, I've been collecting music since before you were born," and then realized that was true.

For some reason LJ has decided that today I am not allowed to choose my userpic. Everybody gets the default. Oh, well; it's not entirely inappropriate.

[waitsjunkie]

A guy at work mentioned a TV show he watched before I was born and assumed I would have seen it too. I'm not sure if it's worse to have near-children thinking you're ancient or people two decades older somehow thinking you're one of them. Maybe I need to rethink my librarian outfits.

Allie, not Liam

[ogrevi]

I just realized that I don't know how old you are. You don't have to tell me, of course. I guess I just assumed that Liam is roughly the same age as Mrs. D, and that you are roughly the same age as Liam, which would make you 5-10 years younger than me.