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[wombat]

Current toddler status, 9/10: Unsuccessfully piloted pink plastic trike car down deck steps (scraped nose, forehead), wore hand-me-down Princess dress with missing velcro wings. If you are directing a music video please commission these visuals.



(I know this isn't about me but: Three thousand posts. OMG.)

[Drygioni]

Current toddler status, 9/11: Television raised the child while I paid a few bills and made a sandwich. After that, the Magna Doodle raised her while I wrote to some friends. I can't figure out who's raising her now; I can't see her.

[wombat]

Current toddler status, 9/14: This might sound entirely cheesy and made-up, but today we literally went side-by-side down a great big wide slide together.

[spudboy]

Current toddler status, 9/18: She goes to a little school now, 2 hours a week, including snack break. This is the same schedule I used to make Stanford bearable.

[theinevitable]

dude, that is such the li(f)e. I wish I could get away with that... in fact, I wish I had not decided to do extra hours. why the fuck did I do that.

I have never tried to be an overachiever. but, you know, "hey, I want to take an extra class! what the hell, it can't be that hard!"
(in reality... so far, it isn't. but I am afraid that it Will Be, and I am thinking about the More Sleep I'd be having if I were taking one class fewer.)

[V-Adore]

This semester I have am 8:30 AM class five days a week. I wish I was going somewhere for two hours a week plus snack.

[wombat]

But what we can all learn from this is that it is really essential to remember to schedule a snack break.

[V-Adore]

Dude, I know it's whining, okay? It's just that this is the class that I have on top of my lab rotation, which I'm led to understand is basically a full-time job (or more, if you like being published), so it's like adding insult to injury. I am aware that I am insulated from the outside world and thus deserve no respect from anyone not in academe, thank you.

[theinevitable]

I have never understood this kind of comment. Yes, it sucks to wake up for an 8 AM class. it sucks more to get up for a 7 AM job. Do degrees not exist anymore?

[wombat]

Inev, someday you too will be Old and will be a messageboard curmudgeon, all Youth is Wasted On The Young, like me and Ash.  Then you will understand.

Speaking of which, does anyone else think that toddler updates have just never been as good baby updates?

[AugustWest]

These young punks today just don't know how good they gots it.

Now git off'n my lawn!

[wombat]

By the way, it's bullshit that college is the best years of your life.  You couldn't pay me to be twenty again.  We're just jealous because if we went back to that life now, it would seem easy and fun, because we know what we know now and have all the skills we've gained since then.  But if we old folk were actually twenty again without all the experience we have accumulated, it would suck for a second time.

The thing is, don't you think baby updates were snarkier?  Toddler updates are sometimes actually, OMG, cute.

[Drastic Action]

There really should not be a "best years" -- it seems like for me, the best years were always 4/5 years ago, but instead of distancing myself from them as time passes, this time buffer remains constant.  So it's all nostalgia anyway.  Unless, of course, you get yourself stuck in a thoughtless job and never have time to take a train across russia.

[AlohaDawg]

By the way, it's bullshit that college is the best years of your life.  You couldn't pay me to be twenty again.  We're just jealous because if we went back to that life now, it would seem easy and fun, because we know what we know now and have all the skills we've gained since then.  But if we old folk were actually twenty again without all the experience we have accumulated, it would suck for a second time.

The thing is, don't you think baby updates were snarkier?  Toddler updates are sometimes actually, OMG, cute.

College was awesome. I would go back in a second.

Also, I read that quote header as "The Dick in Asherdan's Hand". That was funny.

And, finally, I'm almost 40 and now I work 5am to 2pm. First non 9-5er in my life. That SUCKS, y'all.

[Doc]

With regards to the college thing, just because I'm another whiney ingrate:
I'm in my honours year so I go into the lab I work at every day, usually from about 9ish till 5 or 6 (sometimes I stay later but thats really just because the net here is better than at home so it doens't really count) then on thursdays I go straight from there to the petrol station where I work a few hours till 9. On friday I go home and get a couple of hours sleep so I can work the graveyard from 10pm to 7am then usually have to go straight to sleep so I can wake up and work the 5 to 8 shift on saturday afternoon. Then I get to have sunday morning all to myself until I have to go in and work another stupidly short shift sunday night.
Now these are all choices I've made and I'm happy with them, I love uni and my job is tolerable but when my dad talks to me about how hard it will be in the 'real world' and how these are the best years of my life (particularly from a guy who works 9-4 in an office so quiet he frequently falls asleep in the middle of the day) I have to double check for some sort of facial tic that would let me know he's making some sort of joke.

For my money what makes uni (college, whatever) so much better than paid work is the amount of self-direction, that in itself is wonderfully satsifying and something I imagine you have to work for a while to achieve in the work-a-day world.