Comments | cynthia_arrow: venting, but it might be humorous if you're not me, IDK

cynthia_arrow

venting, but it might be humorous if you're not me, IDK

Aug 21, 2007 15:39

I am 27. I am an adult. I don't say this because I'm in that murky place in your mid-twenties where you're sort of an adult and you want to be but you're not sure. I can honestly say I am already ( Read more... )

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cynthia_arrow August 22 2007, 01:34:12 UTC

Oh, Lord, short too? I'm 5'7", so I've never had that problem compounded. Sheesh.

15?! GAH. Human beings should be implanted with, like, age indicator lights or something.

thespiansparkle August 22 2007, 01:24:22 UTC

"Is your mother here with you?"

Swear to god. That's what I got last time I went to do bloodwork.

Then she looked at my paperwork, with my birthdate, where it says, quite clearly, that I am 23. "Oh, you don't look like you're even 18!"

Ohh, fuck off.

I'm getting my Master's and people are still continually stunned that I teach. (Granted, so am I.) And I get the whole "Ohhh, you'll be so glad when you're older." OK, so talk to me then.

I hear you, is what I'm saying. I give you Hugh Jackman looking come-hither, to appease.

cynthia_arrow August 22 2007, 01:32:49 UTC

I started teaching when I was 23. My students would sometimes even ask me how old I was, LOL. I would actually just come out and tell them. I was really surprised how much distance 5 years looks like to them at 18. (And how anybody with a syllabus and a roll sheet seems all official and teacherly to them.)

I normally laugh shit like this off, but with the semseter on my heels (tomorrow! eek!) and the temperatures here so ridiculously high, it's just SO easy for me to get cranky.

Hmm... A hot boy to return the favor? Aha: my favorite Scot, all animated. :)

alissabobissa August 22 2007, 01:43:12 UTC

What really bugs me: when I do tell people my age, after the inevitable comment about how I'm going to be happy to look younger when I'm older (which I know), they keep right on using a tone of voice that should only be reserved for certain portions of the 18-20 population.
Fucking A! I know exactly what you mean, and you know I do because I'm sure you've witnessed some of this on my end (damn our mother's face).

My favorite now is when people at work say, "yeah, that little girl in textbooks was helping me." That's me, a fucking 24-year-old "little girl." Ugh. Double ugh. OH, but I was at a bar the other night and I was not carded at all! Suck on that bitchez!

I give you Naughty Gaius for your viewing pleasure!

cynthia_arrow August 22 2007, 02:04:15 UTC

You sound like you're about as frazzled as I am. For the record: I hate school. And it hasn't even started yet ( ... )

alissabobissa August 22 2007, 02:32:55 UTC

Damn! I missed Nathan Fillion on OLTL!?!??!?! Damn, I bet he and Dan Gultier were so hot together. So they really killed off Asa? Crazy.

And I agree, sometimes soaps are so damn fun and even touching with the right actors (Rex is the SHIT and always will be. His scenes with Bo were the reason I watched for a while).

Oh, and ass cookie for you!

cynthia_arrow August 22 2007, 03:44:22 UTC

Yep, it was Nathan Fillion there hugging Vicki and, literally, within a minute and a half of finding himself back in some off-the-beaten-path parlor room, having this exchange with Dorian that Kevin walks in on and is very amused by ( ... )

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elise_509 August 22 2007, 06:05:18 UTC

People are stupid.

The end.

I'm sorry you have to deal with them. Sometimes you just want to smack the world. It's so annoying when people talk down to you. Drives me crazy! I fully understand where you're coming from.

*glomps you*

cynthia_arrow August 23 2007, 06:03:40 UTC

*glomps back*

:D

holycitygirl August 22 2007, 17:47:59 UTC

If it doesn't cool down in Bama by the first game I'll help you kill someone. Anyone you choose. Just tell me where to bring the shovel. ;)

I swear I'm dreading it. I'm excited about the season starting but I do not want to die tailgating.

Oh - and believe me I get that ageism crap all the time. I think we just have to resign ourselves to not being taken seriously until we are forty.

cynthia_arrow August 23 2007, 06:05:51 UTC

Grr. Is it as hot up your way as it is down here? 'Cause it's miserable.

Cold beer. Lots of it. Only for the God of football will the south forget all about its pesky little problem with being sub-tropical until October. ;)

holycitygirl August 23 2007, 11:56:01 UTC

It's hot in good ole' TN, but it's always hotter in Bama. Always.

Don't joke about the God of Football, Bear Bryant's ghost might make your bed levitate tonight. ;)