Tired of feeling old
Nov. 12th, 2006 07:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
womzillaI'm tired of having thoughts that start "Just a couple of years ago--no, wait, make that decades." Everything I did in college is a minimum of 20 years ago next month; high school, 25.
I'm tired of realizing that I'm older than FOO was when FOO did BAR. This week, it was realizing that I'm old than Ed Asner was when he began playing the gruff, burned-out but angrily avuncular Lou Grant.
But most of all, I'm tired of people dying around me. I was never close to Jack Williamson, but I felt his presence in the field. I'm much more personally affected by by the death of Sondra "Sandy" Swift, an accomplished literary scholar who did some wonderful work on John Crowley. Sandy was one of the first people I met completely through the ICFA, and I will, cannot but, associate it with her until I, too, am dead.
I'm tired of realizing that I'm older than FOO was when FOO did BAR. This week, it was realizing that I'm old than Ed Asner was when he began playing the gruff, burned-out but angrily avuncular Lou Grant.
But most of all, I'm tired of people dying around me. I was never close to Jack Williamson, but I felt his presence in the field. I'm much more personally affected by by the death of Sondra "Sandy" Swift, an accomplished literary scholar who did some wonderful work on John Crowley. Sandy was one of the first people I met completely through the ICFA, and I will, cannot but, associate it with her until I, too, am dead.
