Bizarrely I feel closer to my chronological age now than any previous time in my life. (When I was a kid I always felt older and when I became an adult I felt younger, but now I pretty much feel like 'just about to stop being a Young Adult'.)
I waffled between one and two, picking two. Generally, though, I have a glass of wine or beer with supper and that's it.
-- Steve literally can't remember the last time he had hard liquor, and not because of ethanol-induced neural apoptosis either. It's been ages... and the last one may have been a toddy during my bout with strep throat, come to think of it.
-- Steve once had a friend question him on why he used so many "ten-dollar words" in conversation. The reply, verbatim; "Bigger words are more better."
Perhaps Andy wants to know the average mental age of the readers of his journal so he knows where to aim the content; more hip music vs more posts about tea and jumpers.
I had to resubmit, due to missing the first question.
I'm 34, feeling slightly younger. I went 31 because I *really* like being in my 30s and wouldn't go lower. In a very real sense, though, I feel early 20's. I'm in the first home that feels 'mine', in a Degree that I should have entered straight from school, and seeing a delightfully Lady that could be best described as 'younger'.
I could disregard much of the last 15 years [except the whole having a Daughter bit, which is far beyond completely wonderful] and not really lose much.
Is the first question meant to have a random selection of numbers? Is it an age question? If it is, I don't feel any of those numbers but they seem a little arbitrary.
Yes, I got faintly confused by the first question. It took me a few readings to even think of the possibility that it might mean age, let alone decide it was the most likely interpretation!
I think I confused myself by expecting the list to contain adjectives, and was sufficiently thrown by seeing numbers instead that I didn't manage to adjust immediately.
(Perhaps the drop-down should have instead contained "happy", "sleepy", "grumpy", ...)
Hey that drink question is severely flawed for the non drinkers too. I definitely drink less than once a week but that could imply 2-3 drinks per month. However I don't think I coiuld honestly say not at all, as I may have a drink a couple of times a year.
I totally forgot to do the age bit. I am 40 but in some ways feel about 14. Overall??? I really dunno - I have no preconceptions of what it feels like to be an age older than I am, and no really detailed memories of ages younger than I am (my memory [and imagination] appear(s) to be very much less emotionally-associative than most people's, so it's a really hard question for me to answer)
I thought question 1 was just a particularly abstract question about what number I liked the most in my head, and now I have figured out what you meant I've decided I like my interpretation better :)
Age bit, once I realised what it was, made me understand I don't know the answer. My default is to say I'm prematurely middle aged, but given my ability to act like a kid I suppose I might just even out at about my chronological age (mid 30s).
I don't drink, except when I do - a unit or two maybe every 3 or 4 months. Watching Snowtown at the weekend left me feeling the need for booze in a way that the holiday season never did.
The cool thing about getting older is realising again and again that being age X isn't as bad as you thought it would be. The tricky part is remembering to apply that logic to the years to come as well.
Oh wait. The first question was about age? Sorry, I didn't realize until after I picked a random number. Without any context, I assumed it was as sort of 'How good do you feel? 8 out of 10' and upon seeing weird numbers went 'eh... random!'
My problem with drink is that it takes me about 4 nights to get through a bottle of wine if I'm on my own. So often on days that could be dry I've got booze that needs drinking...
I don't-drink a lot less since I moved back in with my parents. There's always wine at supper; sometimes I don't have any, usually I have a glass, sometimes two. I've been wondering if I should stop drinking entirely, mainly because I know that if I had to buy all my own drink I wouldn't be having so much...
I drink a glass of wine with dinner every day, except Wednesday when my schedule means I eat dinner on the train en-route to rock climbing. I'm not sure how useful it is to compress "the amount you can safely drink in a week" into fewer days, that seems likely to lead to more binge drinking to me...
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-- Steve literally can't remember the last time he had hard liquor, and not because of ethanol-induced neural apoptosis either. It's been ages... and the last one may have been a toddy during my bout with strep throat, come to think of it.
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Ooh, new word. Thank you!
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awesome
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You're welcome.
-- Steve once had a friend question him on why he used so many "ten-dollar words" in conversation. The reply, verbatim; "Bigger words are more better."
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I feel 24 but am 28.
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I'm 34, feeling slightly younger. I went 31 because I *really* like being in my 30s and wouldn't go lower.
In a very real sense, though, I feel early 20's. I'm in the first home that feels 'mine', in a Degree that I should have entered straight from school, and seeing a delightfully Lady that could be best described as 'younger'.
I could disregard much of the last 15 years [except the whole having a Daughter bit, which is far beyond completely wonderful] and not really lose much.
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I think I confused myself by expecting the list to contain adjectives, and was sufficiently thrown by seeing numbers instead that I didn't manage to adjust immediately.
(Perhaps the drop-down should have instead contained "happy", "sleepy", "grumpy", ...)
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(Also, with tiredness and illness I made a mess of the poll. Going to re-run it in the morning)
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I don't drink, except when I do - a unit or two maybe every 3 or 4 months. Watching Snowtown at the weekend left me feeling the need for booze in a way that the holiday season never did.
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Also: you know a lot of non-drinkers!
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Sorry, I didn't realize until after I picked a random number. Without any context, I assumed it was as sort of 'How good do you feel? 8 out of 10' and upon seeing weird numbers went 'eh... random!'
My problem with drink is that it takes me about 4 nights to get through a bottle of wine if I'm on my own. So often on days that could be dry I've got booze that needs drinking...
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Awkward double negatives
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