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November 24, 2004
Holy Crap! I'm Old
I Recently found I'm old.
I made the mistake of dating myself with a Public Enemy reference in public; this keyed in everyone to age.
(If you find yourself asking, "Public enemy? John Dillinger? I thought he was dead?" I thank you very much. You make me feel young. Young like I felt yesterday, before my tragic slip of the tongue.)
Truth be told, I am getting older every day. I see it; it doesn't surprise me that others do too.
Yesterday I ate broccoli. I cleaned my plate. Without being told to do so.
I laughed at the childishness of the girl that closed her jacket in the door and tried to go down the steps to no avail.
I moved the ramp so that I wouldn't land in a pothole when I flew over it on my skateboard when hanging out with my 6 year old neighbor. Then I corrected his grammar. "You can drop the 'at' at the end of your sentence. It's superfluous" I said in a voice that rang in my ear remarkably like that of an adult's.
His cousin told me I'd be a "fun dad." Not a "fun guy." No. A fun "dad."
That could be because she was angling for me to hook up with her mom, so I'm not really too worried about it. Still, it makes me think. If I'd be a fun dad would I also be a fun tutor?
I hope so, because I just signed up for a tutor gig. I'm supposed to teach kids about stuff, and if there's anything worse than somebody trying to teach you something it is somebody boring and unfun trying to teach you something.
In my heavily biased opinion fun teachers are better than those of the unfun variety.
I remember virtually nothing of my differential equations class I took years back and haven't used a whit of since, but I recall with some fondness the professor that spent days telling us about giving wine to the Chicago's homeless in... what the hell was the name of the class?
Oh, yeah. Political Science.
Posted by calculatoronfire at November 24, 2004 01:21 PM
Comments
Thanks to the title of this blog entry... everything I have said today starts with "Holy Crap!"
Holy Crap! I want to go home!
Holy Crap! The internet is slow today!
Holy Crap! These glasses are giving me a headache!
Posted by: Fate's Fool at November 24, 2004 02:20 PM
Holy Crap! I've warped yet another mind.
This cannot be good, karma-wise.
And let me tell you, when you get as old as I am I you start worry about such things almost as much as you worry about the damn kids trampling your lawn. Working on the karma calculator takes up much of the time I spend not yelling at kids to "git off my laaawn!"
Posted by: brian at November 24, 2004 03:19 PM