A Stool to be Melancholy Upon

[steepholm]

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.

Comments

[cmcmck]

A mere young thing you are then! :o)

Have you started wearing purple yet?

[gillo]

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.

[thistleingrey]

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.

[steepholm]

Have you started wearing purple yet?

I'm saving that for when I become Imperatrix.

[steepholm]

Thank you!

[steepholm]

Well, there does come a point when one has to accept that one's in the second half of one's allotted span, and I suppose it may as well be now. But other than that, yes!

[shewhomust]

Happy birthday!

[thistleingrey]

Yes, I think a key is being able to choose.

[kalypso]

Happy Birthday! I hope you're having a good one.

I will pull ahead again on Sunday.

[steepholm]

Thank you - let's enjoy these few shared days of 55ness!

[slemslempike]

Happy birthday!

[steepholm]

Thank you!

[ethelmay]

I shall be the Hempress of Colney 'Atch.