Kevin Williams <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> The Underpants Gnomes tell me that
> Threnody <crredwards@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > Kevin Williams wrote:
> > 640 hours. It'd take about four months to get it if I was able to
study
> > 40 hours a week. In reality, I'm looking at closer to seven or eight
> > months. Just studying 20 hours is hard to whittle out of the week.
> I can imagine. Seeing all the junk SWMBO has to bring home from her
> teaching gig and then thinking how much time a hypothetical child would
> need...
Hypothetical kids don't take up /nearly/ as much time as the real ones.
> > Just before I started to reply to your post, UPS came by to drop off
all
> > my medical dictionaries and pharmaceutical work guides. I've got a
> > HUGE-ASS stack of material here now. (Love you, Dorland's! You too,
> > Grey's! I'm totally free every night for the next seven months! Call
> > me!)
> ROFL. "Now that we have established what you are, let's negotiate the
> price! How about this lightly-worn first edition of the Encyclopaedia
> Britannica?"
I've got a lightly-worn 1971 Compact OED, and you can't have it.
> >> [1] Whoever got that joke is officially an a.g Old Timer.
> >
> > That's so freaky to me, in a way. I've been on a.g since 2001 (or
> > thereabouts -- it was right after Birdie Sue was born). I'm so *old*.
> Tell me. I'm getting uncomfortably close to having perpetual 29th
> birthdays. Dammit, I'm too /immature/ to be this old.
I have to say, 29 was much more difficult than 30. I got past my maturity
issues when I realized that, at 20, I was probably (in some ways, at
least)
already more mature than many 25-year-olds. A little residual immaturity
just helps me get along with my daughter better.
I'm still here, too, BTW. Just busy, busy, busy.
I did manage to take a day off yesterday (since my wife has the week
off), and we took the little one to Disneyland. I've never seen her
that worked up. Not even the last time we went to Disneyland.
That Pinocchio ride is some freaky ****. She wasn't amused. Lots of
fun on the revamped Tom Sawyer's Island, though. King Arthur's Carrousel
was a big hit, as usual.
--
Gene Sullivan :: curiousgene@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
:: http://curiousgene.com
Compassion is what *you're* good at. I'm better at complex
searches through organized data structures.
-Jane, "Speaker For The Dead"
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