The Onset of Cognitive Dissonance

[taste_is_sweet]

Otherwise known as how I'm turning 41 this June. Yes, 41. Forty-one. The big 4 - 1. Ol' One and forty.

Aside from finally remembering how to spell 'forty', I've come to the unpleasant understanding that despite how I'm well on my way to decrepitude (occasionally feeling every second of it; believe me), I still almost constantly feel as completely unprepared for the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune as my kid, who is seven. Hell, sometimes I feel he's way more together than I'll ever be.

Anyone else feel like that, out there in the blogosphere? Like a total fraud who is going to be discovered for the completely green, soaking-behind-the-ears newbie to life in general that she actually is? At least sometimes?

Of course, I also get to add to it the small but sad daily reminders that I'm no longer 20-something and cute but 40-something and matronly. It certainly doesn't help that I live in a small city where the average age is something like 24, because of the big community college and huge university, each with their multitude of bright-eyed and bushy-tailed boys and girls running around. All of them so cute and vital and young enough to be my offspring.

And yet in my heart of hearts I feel like I've barely made it to 18, which is at least the legal drinking age in Montreal. If I felt like drinking, but I don't have the same tolerance I used to.

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Re: Whoa, check out all the links!

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

Heh. I'd figured you knew about all of Gross' and Rennie's stuff, but I wasn't sure about Rogers. :) Do you remember the name of the earlier book on the Expedition?

Franklin Expedition books

[ride-4ever.livejournal.com]

The 1988 book by John Geiger and Owen Beattie was titled Frozen in Time : Unlocking the Secrets of the Franklin Expedition; the 2004 book Frozen in Time : the Fate of the Franklin Expedition sounds to be a later revised edition of the same book. Beattie and Geiger also wrote a "young adults" book about the Franklin Expedition, titled Buried in Ice : the Mystery of a Lost Arctic Expedition (warning for graphic photos which may not be appropriate for REALLY young readers : contains photos of the corpses unearthed by Owen Beattie's 1984 scientific expedition).

Re: Franklin Expedition books

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

It definitely sounds like I got the later version of the same book; thank you for telling me about it.

The corpses are freaky, aren't they? The autopsies--and the fact that they were even possible--were amazing.