is it really december already? only 27 more days until 2006. for serious.
i just got an email that a friend of mine here in north carolina has been reading my bloggery, so i say hello to stacy & her new offspring, ezra. i'm thinking she stumbled onto my blog from THE DIRTY DISH. welcome to the randomness. buckle up for safety.
i have nothing of any real substance to discuss other than it surprises me how quickly 2005 has slipped by me. that's what happens nowadays, though. as a kid, time always seemed to pass too slowly. there was a constant nagging desire to fast forward through school days so that you could get to playing king of the mountain with friends. then there was the desired fast forward of the actual school year so that you could have uninterrupted playtime during the summer.
as a kid you wanted to be thirteen so you could be a (wretched) teenager. somehow we assumed that teenagers had their stuff together & did cool things like go to parties & go on dates.
as a teenager you couldn't wait until age sixteen when you'd get the driver's license. there was that nagging feeling that you were somehow left behind if you didn't have wheels.
after age sixteen you looked forward to age eighteen when you'd be voting. nowadays i think it's more about who has most MTVized commercial in order to determine how to vote for the leader of your country.
of course, you were too busy at that point being a college freshman, which presented more desirous expectations along the line of turning twenty-one so that you could have some acrid beast ice beer at a fraternity party. oh wait, i should amend that to say "legally" have some acrid beast ice beer at a fraternity party.
after age twenty-one, there doesn't seem to be so much of an expectation of particular ages as there is of particular events. college graduation, first real job, meeting "the one", engagement, marriage, babies.
i suppose it's good that we don't equate an age with these events, although i'd say that we do have general expectations of a timeframe for such things. but, as we all know, that timeframe is really just a floating timeline in invisible ink.
speaking of invisible, that's my cue to fade into the darkness for now. duty calls, after all.
i just got an email that a friend of mine here in north carolina has been reading my bloggery, so i say hello to stacy & her new offspring, ezra. i'm thinking she stumbled onto my blog from THE DIRTY DISH. welcome to the randomness. buckle up for safety.
i have nothing of any real substance to discuss other than it surprises me how quickly 2005 has slipped by me. that's what happens nowadays, though. as a kid, time always seemed to pass too slowly. there was a constant nagging desire to fast forward through school days so that you could get to playing king of the mountain with friends. then there was the desired fast forward of the actual school year so that you could have uninterrupted playtime during the summer.
as a kid you wanted to be thirteen so you could be a (wretched) teenager. somehow we assumed that teenagers had their stuff together & did cool things like go to parties & go on dates.
as a teenager you couldn't wait until age sixteen when you'd get the driver's license. there was that nagging feeling that you were somehow left behind if you didn't have wheels.
after age sixteen you looked forward to age eighteen when you'd be voting. nowadays i think it's more about who has most MTVized commercial in order to determine how to vote for the leader of your country.
of course, you were too busy at that point being a college freshman, which presented more desirous expectations along the line of turning twenty-one so that you could have some acrid beast ice beer at a fraternity party. oh wait, i should amend that to say "legally" have some acrid beast ice beer at a fraternity party.
after age twenty-one, there doesn't seem to be so much of an expectation of particular ages as there is of particular events. college graduation, first real job, meeting "the one", engagement, marriage, babies.
i suppose it's good that we don't equate an age with these events, although i'd say that we do have general expectations of a timeframe for such things. but, as we all know, that timeframe is really just a floating timeline in invisible ink.
speaking of invisible, that's my cue to fade into the darkness for now. duty calls, after all.
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