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steepholm ([personal profile] steepholm) wrote2018-01-24 05:58 pm
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A Stool to be Melancholy Upon

Tomorrow is my birthday, which will take me into the very midst of my mid-fifties. It occurs to me today that I have (within a month or two) also now been a university lecturer for exactly half my life.

In my rage for symmetry, I wonder if I am doomed to lecture for another 27 and a half years, before retiring at 82? It's not impossible, the economy being what it is. Thereafter, I will decline gracefully into the sunset of my dotage, before expiring gently at the at of 110, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, etc.

Actually, maybe I'm already sans taste - otherwise I'd have a much sharper wardrobe.
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[personal profile] cmcmck 2018-01-24 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
A mere young thing you are then! :o)

Have you started wearing purple yet?
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[personal profile] gillo 2018-01-24 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
To be fair, Stanley Wells is still going strong at around that age, so why not?

Happy birthday for tomorrow. You're nobbut a young lass compared to me, anyway.
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[personal profile] thistleingrey 2018-01-25 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday! (Not so very much my senior--a decade and change. Someone had to balance the other comments?) I hope that you're able to arrange your lecturing years as you please, without regard for externally or internally imposed limitations.
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[personal profile] shewhomust 2018-01-25 10:47 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday!
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[personal profile] thistleingrey 2018-01-25 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, I think a key is being able to choose.
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[personal profile] kalypso 2018-01-25 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy Birthday! I hope you're having a good one.

I will pull ahead again on Sunday.
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[personal profile] slemslempike 2018-01-26 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday!
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[personal profile] ethelmay 2018-01-27 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I shall be the Hempress of Colney 'Atch.