Perspective

[resonant]

I'm 49, which is an age at which you have to get used to opening the newspaper and seeing that someone your age has endowed a children's-surgery wing at a hospital or died of a heart attack

So it was with some pleasure that I read this morning that someone my age had been arrested for biting her probation officer.

Comments

[laurashapiro]

Hee! Well, yes, I can see how that would be cheering.

[buddleia]

Completely choked laughing as I read down!

[king_touchy]

Something to aspire to! Though I admire the people around that age I know who cosplayed in spandex; performed ballet on pointe (having never done before); hiked a glacier; took up acting and improve classes.

When I grow up, I want to be Carolyn Knapp-Shappey. Own my own air dot, fly all over the place, and terrorize my pilots.

[minxy]

Ha! Yeah, that's my kind of kindred spirit too.

...not that there's anything wrong with founding children's hospitals (and only a few garrottings...)

[shrift]

It's very cheering when someone makes you feel good about your accomplishments in life without also making you contemplate your mortality.

[azurelunatic]

Did it say why? *fascinated*

[giglet]

Laughing.

[lexin]

Oh, fantastic! Did it say why she'd bitten them?

[china_shop]

Heeee! <3

[emeraldsword]

LMAO, that's brilliant!

[celli]

Ha, awesome!

...er. you know what I mean.

[out_there]

So it was with some pleasure that I read this morning that someone my age had been arrested for biting her probation officer.

Hee!

[lobelia321]

Giglet just said the other day that she was 49! Is everyone 49? I'm 51 which is the new 49.

Yay to us.

[jesse_the_k]

A new life goal established!

[merrily]

Excellent. :-)

[vickita]

I am 52, which is the new 49 and a half. *g*

It's taking me some getting used to, being in the "heart attack not that weird anymore" age range. But other than that, 52 is not bad.

[resonant]

It's good to be comparatively mature.

[resonant]

You should have seen me snickering in the coffee shop.

[resonant]

I think it takes effort to keep on starting new things! But you have to.

[resonant]

And garrotting is a nice quick death.

[resonant]

Yes! She did me a great favor!

[resonant]

It didn't! It was only a news brief, so a paragraph was all there was -- pretty much name, age, address, and crime.

[resonant]

Every morning, the radio news leads off with whatever was the big crime in that morning's paper. It's a very small town, and most of the crime is pretty small-time (domestic violence, drug use, gas-station robberies) -- a while back, the morning crime involved deer poaching.

[resonant]

Unfortunately not!

[resonant]

I don't promise not to steal that for a story someday.

[resonant]

It made me literally laugh out loud -- in public.

[resonant]

It was!

[resonant]

See, I haven't bitten anybody. It's an achievement!

[resonant]

I've ranted elsewhere about how hard menopause is hitting me, but it's cool to see others in fandom who aren't fresh out of college so I don't feel so out of place.

[resonant]

More biting, or less?

[resonant]

It made me happy. This would probably surprise her.

[jesse_the_k]

I too want to join the dental contact hall of fame.

[omg_wtf_yeah]

Hi, I wanted to let you know I friended you (you're one of my all time favorite SGA writers and this entry...is all kinds of funny and relatable). :)

[lobelia321]

Yes, indeed, it is indeed the new 49 1/2. If not the new 9 3/4. Or the new 33 1/3.

But I do feel that I'm closer to death now than to birth, and that does have an effect on how I see the world and my life. Not sure what effect exactly, yet, but definitely an effect. Also I got a letter from the NHS inviting me for a mammogram. Means nothing of course as in places like Switzerland all women, regardless of age, are invited for those all the time.