On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Malachi Kenney <kfringe@gmail.com> wrote:
No kidding. I'm not only having more fun now than I ever have, I also get to bitch about "the damned kids today."
On Mar 17, 2012, at 12:12 PM, Matt Bear-Fowler wrote:
> who is not actually that concerned about how old he is, and has discovered that being 30-something is actually much easier and more fun than being 20-something,
Hell yeah. My thoughts exactly. Though I don't really complain too long or loudly most of the time. I'm still working on a bachelor's degree so a lot of those kids are people I'm working with as peers-of-a-sort every day.
> (and it really IS weird that I joined this list when I was twenty-one but now I'll be thirty-four on April 7.)I could have sworn you were on the list at least a year earlier than that. I somehow feel like it was 1997. '98 at the latest. There's no way you joined as late as '99, is there?
I'm about 99.99% certain it was around August or September of 1999. The only reason I'm so certain is that I very clearly remember the sequence of events that led me to joining. In August 1998 I moved home to Maine from a failed experiment at being housemates with a friend in Vermont. I was sleeping out in my Mom's "barn" for the summer, since she didn't really have room for me in the house, On a trip to Barnes & Noble, I spotted the trade paperback of Greenmantle on the shelves and thought it looked awesome. I read it in three nights and promptly went back to buy Moonheart.
In spring of 1998 I moved into the apartment that I actually kept until just last fall. In the spring of 1999 I won $500 from a contest run by Roadrunner Records. I used it to buy a WebTV. That was the first time I had steady internet access after a long time without it. For some reason, it took me a few months to think of doing a search for Charles de Lint. (It was probably a Yahoo! search at that time.) Tamson House was one of the first results that came up so I signed up right away. I remember it was at the very end of summer and it was impossible to say what kind of weather we were up for day to day. The nights were already pretty cold.
Well, hell, young you left an impression in a hell of a short time.
Yeah, that's one way to put it. It wasn't a very good impression at first, of course. I'm really glad I smartened up so quickly and thoroughly and you all gave me another chance. My life wouldn't be nearly so interesting or fun without Tamson House.
Matt
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