3-0

Yesterday, I'm sitting around bullshitting with a handful of folks, when my friend Terri randomly asks me why I stopped teaching.

T: So why'd you stop teaching?

Lindy Loo: Because I got my master's, so I didn't really have the option of sticking around.

Alexis (an acquaintance): You used to teach??

Lindy Loo: Yeah, freshman English for a couple of years.

T: Well, why didn't you just get another job teaching?

Lindy Loo: Because it's near fricking-impossible if you don't have a PhD.

Alexis (blurting): How OLD are you?

Lindy Loo (grinning): 29.

Alexis: GET OUT!!!! You are not!

Lindy Loo: Heh heh. No, seriously. I'm 29.

Alexis: Oh my god! I totally thought you were my age--like 21 at most! I kept thinking, man, she's accomplished a lot of stuff for only being 21. That makes me feel a lot better. Heh heh. Man, I can't believe you're 29!

Needless to say, I immediately put her in my pocket and took her home with me--I'm keeping her in a cage in my closet so I can have her around in February when I hit the dreaded 3-0.

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