[HPFGU-OTChatter] accents and getting older

[Sam Edwards]

Sam wrote:
 Could you add me in to please Sheryll? It's January 4th. I will be
thirty next year and probably feeling old and needing lots of friends.

Carol responds:
Thirty's not so bad. In fact, you can finally feel grown up and
understand that the teenagers who think that anyone over thirty is
"old" are suffering from a delusion. If you start thinking of yourself
as already being thirty a month or two in advance, when the Big Day
comes, yu're already used to it. Just a matter of training the mind.
Really. It worked for me, and, as Brett Butler said in her defunct
sitcom, "Pushing thirty? Honey, I'm trailing it behind me." In my
case, way behind me.

Carol, who knows you're not supposed to pull your grey hairs but
pulled three of them today anyway

now me:
lol, thank-you Carol. I've been trying to stop thinking like a teenager for years, maybe I'll finally manage it.




> Iggy wrote:
> You can be educated at Oxford University in
England, 
> majoring in Literature and Writing, and within a
year of 
> being down here, you WILL start to sound like a
redneck. 
> (Although a strangely accented one.)


Sam:

       I dropped out of Oxford after a year, (not reading English.)  Perhaps I should have adjusted my accent. (South London sloppy version of drawling. Tonks in my imagination even if not in Stephen Fry's.)

Nah, I wasn't working hard enough. Lucky escape really. If I'd stuck it out I wouldn't have met hermionesdad:) 

Okay, when I was eighteen I thought that I was going to be a biochemist and never have kids, at least, not for a long, long time. Men were certainly never to influence my life except as an occasional hobby.

I'm now a wife, mother of two and part time nurse. I'm really rather happy with it too, even if I have turned into my mother. How have other folks lives turned out compared to their plans?

Sam

(apparently still in a fit of twenty-something angst and needs to snap out of it!) 

		
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