17 + 17

I just realized that I graduated from high school seventeen years ago today.

I was seventeen the day I graduated.

So high school was over for me half my life ago.

Y’know, really I don’t feel old. I don’t. But thirty-four sure sounded so much older when I was seventeen.

Even worse than that particular realization, though: seventeen years from now my oldest daughter will be twenty.

I think I need to go do something either very adult or very juvenile.

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  • Well, here I am at 30 about to begin Ph.D work. Sheesh. I'll be old an ancient before I take my degree.

    Wait a minute--maybe I'll be a sage!

    Or something . . . .
  • Amy
    Oh, man. It's been awhile since I thought of that night. You know what makes me feel old? David Rogers on his way to a Ph.D--that makes me feel ancient.
  • OK, I think that's got me beat.

    Though I have to say your turning 30 serves as one of those "damn-I'm-old" milestones--since I clearly remember the night of your twenty-first. :)
  • Amy
    How's this for a milestone? My oldest turns 7 the DAY AFTER I turn 30 next year. I have a bad, bad feeling about my mood next February. I think I'll be doing something very juvenile.
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