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09-27-2006, 09:39 AM | #81 | |
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09-27-2006, 10:56 AM | #82 |
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But then we'd have to start a married club and pester you with St. Valentine's Day greetings.
I'm aware I married rather young: it's sort of a tradition in my family. My mother was nineteen, my grandmother 20...but I have plenty of much older friends who haven't married and show no signs of nuptials in the future. It just ended up being the right decision for me at the right time. And my hubby's all sweet and cuddly and lets me buy things and schtuff! I'm all excited because he bought be $140 worth of fabric last night to make a slipcover for our couch. It's a hand-me-down from my parents, with upholstery that's much the worse for wear. I bought this beautiful old-gold material with a lovely soft suede texture, and the finished product is going to have dark brown trim. The package says "Mocha", if that means anything to anyone. I think I've checked individual volumes of HoME out of the library two or three times--and never opened the covers. The Canon, the Hobbit, and the Silmarillion remain (and are likely to continue to remain) the only Tolkien reading I've done. OH WAIT!!! I just remembered I read "Roverandom" as a very little girl. Years before I'd ever been introduced to the Hobbit. Tee-hee...if that counts I could qualify for the old-peoples' club in maybe three years. Not that I'll likely leave here unless kicked out. I may be the "old married woman" according to my still-single friends, but I don't intend to ever count as an old fogey. P.S. My husband, Neal, is 25 and all old like dirt and stuff. My mother refers to him affectionately as the "cradle-robber". When I turned 21 last summer I think he was more excited about it than I was! Finally he could look for live music or whatnot without feeling guilty about it! P.P.S. If I ever move back to Indy I am so going to the Vogue. And the Neon Cactus. Thing that sucks about turning 21 so far from where you think of as home...I've never really wanted to go to any of these bars, even if I did live in a city big enough to have a music scene to speak of. Which I don't.
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09-27-2006, 11:58 AM | #83 |
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Hello people! Here's an other member that qualifies for the Middle Age Club!
I'm now 21, but how old I was when first introduced to the Tolkien world I can't remember. Like so many others, I started off with Bilbo. But I can't say that I was thrilled. It was an interesting story, sure, but it wasn't until I read LotR that I was caught by the magic of the professor. I'd guess that I was something like 12 years old when I read Bilbo and LotR followed soon after. I rememer lying in the couch, reading and having Enya playing in the background... I read whole days and could hardly put the book down to eat. I tried reading the books in English when I was done in Swedish, and got through them all even if I can't have understood everything. I even made an attempt to read The Silmarillion in English, but gave up. I was to young then, but now I read mostly in English. Since then I've read Silmarillion, UT and BoLT, but haven't tried HoME yet. "Roverandom", what is that? And how can I not know what it is? What can I more say? Rune can take it easy, I'm not close to getting married either Even if my girlfriend says that she's going to marry me sometime... Belonging to a club now, right? Yipee!
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10-04-2006, 07:47 AM | #84 |
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Well, fellow Middle Agers, I think it can be declared official.
We're really boring. Has anyone done anything interesting lately? I've lost 3.6 lbs (yay), gone to the beach (yay, there were dolphins), and am eagerly awaiting the reappearance of fresh spinach in supermarkets (it was declared safe on Monday...so impatient...)
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10-04-2006, 07:58 AM | #85 |
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mmm fresh spinach. . .
I actually ment to write, I even wrote a note about it. . .I must see if I can find it, as I cannot remember all I wanted to say. |
10-04-2006, 08:12 AM | #86 |
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Well, there's not much new at this end of the line... school and work take up most of my time, and that's not fun... I think we should start a tolkien-related discussion that only we "middle agers" can join. It should be something interesting and fun, so that all the other age groups envy us.
DId the balrogs have wi.... no, wait, I've got it... Who's Tom Bo.... done already, huh? Well, I'm out of ideas. Any bright minds around?
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10-04-2006, 08:18 AM | #87 |
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well we have talked about it before, but never come to an agreement. Maybe that should be the quest of our club, atleast it is a long-term quest. . . .
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10-04-2006, 01:49 PM | #89 |
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Now, now kids...if the Old Folks' Home is any guide, we can chat a little here. It is after all a place to get to know eachother better, and build a stronger community here on the Downs.
Of course the Old Folks have little to speak of other than quilts and gardens...but we're young, vibrant individuals! Surely we can do better!
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10-04-2006, 02:18 PM | #90 | |
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I have a question for everyone. Is there such thing as a college student who can receive a proper amount of sleep? Just wondering because I have failed to drag myself into bed before 2am ever since school started...
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10-04-2006, 02:44 PM | #91 |
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That depends...how much sleep are you aiming for?
4-6 hours? Easily. 6-7 hours? Sure. On weeknights. Which include Sunday, but not Thursday. Especially if you don't have many morning classes. 8-9 or other amounts actually recommended by doctors and other health professionals? Why would you want to? So many other things to do...except on Sunday mornings. Sleep until like 1 on Sunday if you want.
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10-04-2006, 03:03 PM | #92 | |
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I'm thinking of a good Tolkien idea for this thread, but I'm at work... I'll expand on it when I get home. Edit: I just saw your other post... I ne'er said we can't chat, I just thought it'd be a good idea to have some Tolkien involved... let's face it the old folks tend to take up a lot of space on the interesting discussions... and after their elaborate, comprehensive posts, what is a young'un like myself going to say? But here they are shut out looking in, MWAHAHAHAHA.
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10-04-2006, 04:41 PM | #94 | |
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10-04-2006, 04:49 PM | #95 |
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One of the things I loved about Argentina was the fact that people went out to eat around 10-11 PM. . .
Once I was leaving this club at 4:30 AM and people was still in a hughe line to get in. (we of course was allowed to skip the line because we knew the password, "we bring Scandinavian girls" ) I am having seriouse problems getting to bed before 3 AM and it is your fault! If I was to buy a minor work of Tolkien, what would a bunch of middle aged people like you sugest ? |
10-05-2006, 06:18 AM | #96 |
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This may be rather pathetic, well, actually, it is, but I rarely stay up past midnight on weekdays, unless I have a paper due. Usually, on the nights I don't work, my roommate and I are in bed by 10:00PM. I like to stay up, but if I don't have any homework, I'd rather sleep!
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10-05-2006, 05:39 PM | #98 |
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Oh actually I got that one. . . sorry
Other than that, what do you recomend ? Yeah it is pretty much what we do as well, only it is not always we procede to the next club/bar/whatever. I never liked clubs and I still don't go to them at home, but in Argentina I was clubbing like crazy. I loved the place. . .I would not mind spending a year in BA! (What is up with those bars that serve free beer and don't charge anything in the door ?) |
10-05-2006, 06:51 PM | #99 |
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I recommend Smith of Wootton Major and Farmer Giles of Ham. Smith is my personality double, after all.
I think I can beat everyone on early bedtimes. 9:00 sometimes. I'm not that bad right now since I don't have to be in to work until about 9 in the morning, but when I had to be in at 5 AM, 9 o'clock was definitely lights out time.
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10-05-2006, 07:05 PM | #100 |
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I feel like a little school-child with all this talk about bed times. . . Was that never the major talk of your class ?
Smith of Wootton Major it is. . . I once got Farmer Giles of Ham from the libary with alot of other books, but was frightened away by the aweful Danish titel. "Niels Bonde fra Bold" It is not really different from the English titel, but it just sounds really silly and Roverandom had two dogs on the cover so I did not even bother to open it. (Mind that I had borrowed more books than I could read) |
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10-05-2006, 08:34 PM | #102 | |
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10-05-2006, 10:25 PM | #103 | |
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I still don't know how any college student manages to go to bed at 9-10. It's too noisy in the dorms, besides that's when all the excitement occurs. Right now, it's after midnight and I'm still powering through. The latest I went to bed was at 4:30 and that was for a paper (groan)....shows how terrible of a procrastinator I am. Seriously, I would never survive if it weren't for naps. No, naps aren't just for pre-schoolers.
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10-08-2006, 10:40 PM | #104 | |
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10-08-2006, 11:35 PM | #105 | |
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10-18-2006, 05:43 PM | #106 |
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So I have returned from England and with me I have brought the 2 first books in the HoME series and an Ilustrated hardback copy of the Silmarillion. I am really happy about these buys as you cannot get that copy of the Sil in Denmark and I saved 2.5-5 £ per copy, compared to the prize back home.
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10-18-2006, 05:47 PM | #107 | |
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10-18-2006, 05:59 PM | #108 |
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well I was going to England anyway. . .my errand was not to buy books. I was there to visit family and watch football. I went to Middlesbrough v Everton and Man U v FC Copenhagen.
(The ticket ended up not costing anything for me, my grandmother decided to pay for it as a pressent.) |
10-18-2006, 06:05 PM | #109 | |
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Sorry. A bad joke. But a thinkable one, at least...
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10-18-2006, 06:52 PM | #110 | |
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10-18-2006, 06:59 PM | #111 | |
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10-18-2006, 07:11 PM | #112 |
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well it is not something that happens often, infact this is the only time it has happened.
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10-19-2006, 03:13 AM | #113 | |
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10-19-2006, 08:51 AM | #114 |
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That is the one. . .
It is so lovely, good drawings, hardback and with nice big letters. . .what more could a guy want? (In a book that is) |
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Then I realized how true that is. I don't know about you folks, but before I had a cellphone I thought they weren't necessary. I've only had it for two months, but I have to admit that I'd be lost without it. Ok, perhaps not LOST lost, but I wouldn't want to loose it. It's mine! My precious!! What do I mean? well, thanks to my celly I've been able to keep in touch with two friends, one in Indianapolis and another in a nearby city I hadn't talked to often for a good while, I'm able to arrange for rides much more easily (which will be really useful when temperatures start dropping below -30 C which is what I'd call COLD cold) and let's face it... All those little gadgets like the camera and what not might be mostly useless but... they are cool. While I'd like to hear your thoughts on cellphone-dependance, I'd also like to expand the question to "what other modern-day One Ring's can you think of?" and give a bit of an explanation of why, obviously... shopping-lists are good but not for an answer here
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10-19-2006, 11:54 PM | #116 |
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I'm not much of a phone-talker and rarely contact friends by phone, so I'm probably not quite a dependent on it as others my age. My main dependence for my cell is for family reasons. Now that I'm away at college, I enjoy talking to my parents and sister every few days- after all they're the ones who know me best. I mostly use my phone as an alarm clock. I nap a lot and without that phone, I'd never make it to class.
My main dependency: my laptop. It has my whole world on it- my homework, my music, my pictures, my entertainment, and most of all the internet. Without my computer, I'd be out of touch with the rest of the world. From the internet, I check the daily news and keep in touch with friends. And of course, 90% of the time I'm here on the Barrow Downs. Oh boy, I don't know what I'd do without this site.... Computers are awesome.
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10-20-2006, 02:38 AM | #117 |
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Cell-phone free zone
There you have it. No cell phones here. Cell phone: nada. I don't even have an answer machine. If somebody wants to call me and it's important, they will call again later. The idea to be reachable all the time is, in fact, a little scary to me.
There were times when I wore a watch almost everytime. Then someday, some months ago now, it broke, and my second one just after it. Since I'm lazy, it took me some time to get them repaired, and in that time I was wearing none. The first days it was weird, but then I more and more realized that you don't really need one all the time. It is a liberating feeling! Now I don't wear watches anymore and it's no problem ever. My two ones still lie on my desk at home - unrepaired (I told you I'm lazy). I feel like a modern rebel! PS: I heard about people who wear memory sticks around their necks. What does that remind me of? |
10-20-2006, 05:33 PM | #118 | |
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Here's a thought for you guys. Want another "Ring"? The Internet. And the 'downs is a part of it. Raise a hand if you have NEVER EVER procastinated and put yourself in a bad situation because of over-using the 'net (including visiting the 'downs for a bit too long ). hmmm.... see? I thought so.
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10-20-2006, 10:11 PM | #119 |
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Wow...you must have internet 2.0...I can't see people's hands.
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