What makes you feel old?

[Abdula]

I like how you said basically the same thing Abdula said, but in a much more positive and less pretentious and patronizing way. It's nice to read a message like this without visualizing a hand slowly yet firmly stroking their penis as they type.

And despite my realization that I'm a decade older than my students, I'm still quite childish and playful. They tell me on a regular basis that I act like a little kid. So you're as young as you feel, but reading the numbers is slightly disconcerting.

Xan. I love you man. I can assure you that I am neither pretentious nor patronizing if only because I surround myself with people like you, who would not hesitate to call me out about such things. I must say you always put an interesting spin on my posts though. If I remember correctly you were the one who said you apply a "voice" to everyone's posts and you picture me as a guy running around with a machete