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From the [livejournal.com profile] altfriday5:

1. How old are you?
Twenty-four today, as it happens. Of all the dates to pick this topic....

2. How old do you feel? Why?
Hell if I can put a number on it. I feel years older than most people my age, but I still don't feel like an adult yet. Sometimes I wonder if I ever will.

3. How old would you like to be? Why?
Old enough for people to take me a little more seriously. Maybe thirtyish?

4. What was your best age? Why?
5. What was your worst age? Why?
That sounds to me like "at what age were you the best/worst person." I think I'm continually improving, so I guess 23 would have to've been my best age and zero the worst--though I admittedly went through a few bratty phases as a kid, I don't remember them all that clearly. If the question really means "what was the best/worst year of your life," any of the years since I started college might qualify for best and worst, really. I mean, yeah new friends and lovers and finding myself and all that, but also depression and dropping out of classes and taking too long to graduate and having no money....

Then again, I can think of even shittier things I've been through in my life--but then yet again, every time I think of those parts of my life I can't forget the good bits either. I guess I'm really just not prepared to peg any part of my life as outstandingly better or worse overall than any other, even though I think I'm slowly getting control of my life and may in a few years have swung it into the "unequivocally good" zone.

Date: 2005-07-09 07:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] adamchristopher.livejournal.com
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Happy Birthday V

I'm slowly getting control of my life and may in a few years have swung it into the "unequivocally good" zone.

I love it. Sounds like a brilliant statement to start your year with.

Date: 2005-07-09 07:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] olego.livejournal.com
Hey, Happy Birthday! :-)

Date: 2005-07-09 07:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hitchhiker.livejournal.com
happy birthday (:

Date: 2005-07-09 07:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ratontheroad.livejournal.com
Happy Birthday

Date: 2005-07-09 08:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tsgeisel.livejournal.com
Well, happy birthday then.

Date: 2005-07-09 08:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ocicat.livejournal.com
Woot! Happy Birthday!

Date: 2005-07-09 09:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jen92373.livejournal.com
Happy Birthday.

V feels replete

Date: 2005-07-09 03:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_duncan/
I hope this year leaves you a happier person than I met two years ago.

Oh, and that feeling like an adult thing? Seriously overrated. I have it on quite good authority (mid 80s) that you live longer if you don't.

(V was full of sushi)

Date: 2005-07-10 04:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vvvexation.livejournal.com
Eh, well, there's adult like stodgy and there's adult like competent. I'd like to feel more competent.

Date: 2005-07-12 04:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lunatravels.livejournal.com
Go for childlike competent. childlike adults have the most fun. Observation not action, best I generally do myself is to hang out with said adults. But that's why I'd like to encourage more of them.

Date: 2005-07-12 07:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vvvexation.livejournal.com
That's the idea, yes.

(BTW, I haven't commented on your latest post because it brought up scary things for me and I didn't want to add to the gloom factor.)

Date: 2005-07-12 08:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lunatravels.livejournal.com
It was scary to write. But it was more a celebration of the breaking of the gloom factor. I don't write (anything, anywhere) when things are really bad. I'm pleased you noticed I'd written. I was afriad I'd dropped off everyone's radar from being so unheard from for so long. I'll write something cheerful and not ill soon and I'd be delighted if you responded to that.

Date: 2005-07-13 01:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vvvexation.livejournal.com
One of the nice things about LJ is that if someone almost never posts, it costs me nothing to keep them on my friends list in case they ever do post. Much easier than constantly checking their journal page. :-)

Date: 2005-07-12 07:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vvvexation.livejournal.com
(Er, now that I look, I realize there is a later one. I meant, the first one that was at all recent.)

Date: 2005-07-09 04:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] snowy-owlet.livejournal.com
Happy birthday!

Date: 2005-07-09 05:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zwol.livejournal.com
Happy birthday!

Date: 2005-07-10 04:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] saizai.livejournal.com
*blink* I missed your birthday? Oops.

Er, happy post-birthday!

Date: 2005-07-10 06:32 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] vito-excalibur.livejournal.com
Happy birthday. :)

What does it mean to you to be an adult?

I think it's awesome that in your best judgment you're continually improving.

Date: 2005-07-10 07:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vvvexation.livejournal.com
I think I will feel like an adult when I feel like I can get the sort of things done that adults are supposed to get done, without fucking them up or needing anyone to make me do them. Of course, I'm not sure if that'll ever happen, really....

Date: 2005-07-10 07:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caesia.livejournal.com
A happy birthday
I am wishing to you now
with a late haiku.

Procrastinators
should write in 5-7-5
all the time, I think.

Date: 2005-07-10 07:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vvvexation.livejournal.com
Why just them? I say
everybody should, dammit!
(I am firm on this.)

...So, are you saying
the haiku-writing effort
was too strenuous

and required you
to overcome lassitude
before making it?

(Well, I shouldn't laugh.
It's not like I'm much better
at getting things done.)

Date: 2005-07-10 07:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caesia.livejournal.com
No, it is just that
I'm paying no attention
to my calendar

nor really LJ;
I consider this to be
procrastination.

Perhaps I could be
better termed a "flake," but that
sounds pejorative.

(Writing out comments
and counting out syllables --
rather strange, but fun.)

Date: 2005-07-10 07:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caesia.livejournal.com
Curses, foiled again!
Er, I mean, I meant to post
that as a reply. -_-

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