'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky

[geoviki]

It's a lovely Colorado day. I'm celebrating my work anniversary today (by not being at work, of course). I've worked at the same place for *mumble26mumble* years. Odder still, because of the golden handcuffs of the Government retirement system, most of the people I work with have also been there as long as I have. I look around and see the same faces as the day I walked through the door. I swear, one of them is still wearing the same flannel shirts and hiking boots! (Hair's a lot thinner, though). I know how unusual this is - I see from your LJs that a lot of you are changing jobs, schools, homes.

I, however, seem to be anchored here. My husband and I have been together for *mutter28mutter* years. Among other benefits, I can say I really value having someone in my life who carries a huge part of my history with him.

I know these posts of mine about real life leave all of you at a loss for replies, and that's okay. I mentioned "layers" in my last post and I think I'll elaborate a little. I think I've discovered that I haven't aged by replacing my younger self with an older one. Instead, I've built myself up in layers. I can tap into that 23-year-old me and feel the same feelings I did then. It's not as distant as you'd think. (Well, some of the details have vanished; my husband is good for filling those in). So I don't feel removed from you when you describe your lives. It's really all right there, in the layer that is me.

See, now I can segue into talking about all of the money I dropped at Barnes and Noble yesterday on my weakness - CD's. I know a lot of you share that hobby! Let's see, I bought: Brasil 2mil (contemporary Brazilian music), In Time (best of R.E.M.), Showbiz Kids (Steely Dan), Jazz After Dark, Pod - Afro Celt Sound System...

...and Jimi Hendrix.

Which I was listening to 26 years ago when I first moved to Colorado.

I'm the one who's got to die when it's time for me to die. So let me live my life the way I want to. Jimi Hendrix

Comments

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

oh, this is a really beautiful way of looking at things...growing older in layers rather than changing completely. and yes, i look at my students and *feel* their excitement at starting college, *feel* their heartache at their first big breakup...and then there are other emotions, the more abstract ones like political focusedness and civil self-righteousness that i have a harder time recapturing...

happy golden work anniversary!!!

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

I think us older folks can relate to the "layers" idea. And I've been thinking about your comment for 24 hours, and have decided that I can still capture my abstract emotions, but my reaction to them is different now, because of experience. But if provoked enough, I do react with that same intensity. For example, when Bush restricts stem cell research that will help cure my son's diabetes, I am in a much better position to drop a large check to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

[cat-mom.livejournal.com]

I've been trying to remember if I introduced myself when I friended you recently. Since I can't remember, I'll tell you I friended you because it appears we have some things in common, foremost our love of H/D fics. I also suspect we are the only ones in the fandom who remember black & white TV and rotary telephones. My husband of 29 years is a geophysicist and we have two daughters, aged 22 and 24, one of whom shakespearechic introduced me to the fandom and live journal. I like how you described yourself as aging in layers - that really makes sense to me. Anyway, hope you don't mind me butting in! :)

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

I don't recall any intros, so glad you stopped by. I just read some of your journal entries and friended you back. I'm behind on reading journals of all the folks who friended me in the aftermath of "A Thousand Beautiful Things", so sorry about that.

If you are older than I am, I'll be your bestest friend. It's close...so close...could be...

Houston, huh? A lot of my classmates spent at least some time there. And if your husband ever uses gravity or magnetic data, he might have read some of my other publications, which number in the hundreds, actually. And I'll get more hits today on ATBT than I will in my lifetime on all those other pubs. What a crazy world!

[cat-mom.livejournal.com]

I'll ask him if he's read any of your stuff! May turn out to be a small world after all! And, although I like to keep people in suspense, I'll tell you my birthday anyway: * 17 April 1953 * I try not to advertise it in the fandom, because if I were a twenty-something in the fandom today, I would wonder what the hell a 50+ yr. old women sees in it!!!! Well, foremost, I think it keeps us young, don't you think? Hee-hee!
P.S. I think your Draco is much cuter than Tom Felton!

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Yes! *punches fist into air* Finally! A contemporary!

I've stopped trying to a)figure out the reason for my obsession and b) explaining what I see in HP fandom. I haven't a clue, to be honest. I just know what I like.

My Draco is hot. And better yet, he's legal! 21. And you or I could be his mother, of course.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RobertBoyd/

For a zillion pix of him. He's a real model. One of those androgynous boys that the fashion industry finds sells clothes these days.