Farewell, early twenties and hello mid twenties

[giallarhorn]

I'm now in my mid-twenties, which is a really weird thing to type out. Don't feel any more mature, adult, wiser, etc. At least not any older yet, but that's probably because I've already been feeling older for a while now. Still, biological age is a handy metric

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[sparrowspark]

I really need to get back into Avatar...and follow through with Korra.

Cinnamon Rolls! :D Yum. Whenever it's a birthday in my house and there's cake...you basically just eat cake till that's gone. For real. Like it's okay to eat it as dinner. You can have something else but cake. I love it haha.

[giallarhorn]

You should! Avatar is a pretty solid show, but Korra is just spectacular once it gets rolling. Plus, last seasons and all.

Cinnamon rolls are much more manageable compared to an entire cake, because I don't think I'd manage to eat an entire cake in one day. Like, I don't know how you do it even with other stuff mixed in because all that sugar, omg.

[sparrowspark]

Well it doesn't have to be in one day hun haha. Spread out the celebration and good feels! :D

[ladymercury_10]

Being lazy and eating a cinnamon roll sounds like a good way to spend your birthday. Also: happy reading!

[giallarhorn]

It is most definitely not a bad way to enter the realization you're old, so.

Heh, I'm in the position where I can't actually read it because there's just so much else I need to get done first, but I suppose at the very least I don't have to worry about returning it to the library :P

[ladymercury_10]

at the very least I don't have to worry about returning it to the library
Hahaha, fair enough. :P

[pax_athena]

I somehow place you older ...? I don't know why. Also: happy belated birthday!

And your entry made me really, really want to watch Korra. But: time. Grah! *goes back to work*

[giallarhorn]

Thanks! And I have to ask out of curiosity, how much older? But it might be because all of my friends are older than me by something close to a year (where my birthday falls means I should've been a year below everyone in school) so that's probably rubbed off over the years. Or more realistically, the daily grind of academia and research. That'll ages you fastAhh, you're flattering me. It seriously is a solid show overall and excellent when it gets things right, though- it isn't always great but it has enough in its favor that the shortcomings aren't so bad. And they've done this fascinating thing where since the world is going through an industrial revolution, they're presenting a lot of different and divisive ideas of how the world should be run/how problems should be dealt with, ie. if an egalitarian society would be better or democracy or anarchy or if populist rule overrides imperial lineage. On top of the whole move to kind of tackle mental illness in about the only way that they could really do it in an animated show, through

[pax_athena]

I'd say somewhere over 25 - 26-27 perhaps? Yeah, academia rubbing off may be part of it. But also my personal expectations because you do the kind of work a PhD candidate in Germany would do (and sometimes more of the work a postdoc would do) and given how German university tends to start late and people who start PhD finish a five year degree before, they tend to be in that age range

[giallarhorn]

Oh, that's not too far off- the grind of academia, yeah. I just tend to...kind of get stuff lumped at me without much regard, either by proximity or bad luck. But do PhD candidates all have a five year degree prior to their PhD? As in, five years undergrad or something else between

[phonatix]

I am turning twenty-five myself in a few months, and I can't say I'm looking forward to it. I do actually feel quite a bit different from when I was twenty-two/twenty-three though, even though that was only a couple of years ago.

Many happy returns, may you at some point get a cake with candles :)

[giallarhorn]

Yeah, 21/22 you're right at the age of what's typically considered 'adulthood', or at the very least the edge of 'young adult'. Whereas at mid twenties, it's assumed that you've managed to grow into a fine and responsible member of society, or enough to pass for one. It's so weird, because you're right in the middle between being comparatively old, and youth.

Haha, I probably wouldn't know what to do with that much cake if someone did get me one. Plus, the amount of time to light that many candles?

[spiffysavannah4]

ok, I didn't read this whole thing, but WHOA WHOA WHOA... Legend of Korra is based on the Last Airbender??

[spiffysavannah4]

also, sorry we didn't get you a cake or anything :(

[giallarhorn]

Wait, you didn't know? LoK is the sequel to TLA, only that it's set about 70 years after the events in TLA. Same world, more or less same rules and established facts, but the shows are kind of polar opposites in a few respects, ie TLA is very clearly aimed towards a younger audience, while LoK is pretty much a young adult show.

Nah, it's cool- your presence was more than enough to make up for a cake. Plus, I don't know what I'd do with a decent sized cake other than leave it in the fridge for a while.

[spiffysavannah4]

no, haha! I watched the Last Airbender with the kids I used to nanny for and was surprised how much I liked it since I was expecting a kid show, haha. I didn't finish it though, they only had two seasons or something...