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[Vector]

Isn't that what you are studying for though, Vector? If you're trying to be one and you keep getting mistaken for one, that would be good, yes?

It's on the slightly insulting side, since you really don't get to be a mathematician until you're at least 30, most of the time (typically accompanied with looking 10 years older than you are, due to stress)--and the hallmarks of it for the layman are not mathematical prowess, but the "I've been sleeping in my chair for five days and can't remember my own name" look.

That's a hell of a combination.  A frumpy sweater can tack on 10 years all by itself.

Yeah, I realized as I was listing it that the only difference between current-me and high school-me is the sweater.  Before I started wearing it, I was frequently mistaken for a fourteen-year-old.

It's smooth (i.e. non-nubbly/close-woven/made with thin yarn, however you're supposed to say that), dark blue, long-sleeved with a white stripe along the button line, so I thought it wasn't that bad--maybe even kind of stylish.  Getting me some weird reactions, though.

[Leafsnail]

Yeah, I realized as I was listing it that the only difference between current-me and high school-me is the sweater.  Before I started wearing it, I was frequently mistaken for a fourteen-year-old.

In that case, with a bit of careful foreplanning, could you theoretically pretend to be your own daughter?

[Sowelu]

It's on the slightly insulting side, since you really don't get to be a mathematician until you're at least 30, most of the time (typically accompanied with looking 10 years older than you are, due to stress)--and the hallmarks of it for the layman are not mathematical prowess, but the "I've been sleeping in my chair for five days and can't remember my own name" look.

I thought people said that mathematicians' best work was produced before their 30s.  (Not that I ever believed it that much, but it's still a logical contradiction.)

[Vector]

In that case, with a bit of careful foreplanning, could you theoretically pretend to be your own daughter?

Maybe... I'd probably need to "dress young" somehow, though, and I don't own most of the accoutrements.

I thought people said that mathematicians' best work was produced before their 30s.  (Not that I ever believed it that much, but it's still a logical contradiction.)

Generally they're talking about the PhD thesis and the bit just after that, when one is a post-doc rather than a tenured professor.

Also, I disagree with that notion, though I'm sure it's true for some/many/most.

[inteuniso]

This was rather depressing, but still an excellent game.

In six days, every living cell on Planet Earth will be dead.

You have One Chance.

I spent my last day working on a cure.

Spoiler: Sad (click to show/hide)

My daughter, lay dead next to the entrance, her last sight the inside of a lab. She didn't know about her mother committing suicide, but I think she knew. Everyone else, dead. And me... I closed my eyes, looking at the computer screen. With a giant red X.

Sigh.

[Sowelu]

I spent my last day working on a cure.

Spoiler: Sad (click to show/hide)

My daughter, lay dead next to the entrance, her last sight the inside of a lab. She didn't know about her mother committing suicide, but I think she knew. Everyone else, dead. And me... I closed my eyes, looking at the computer screen. With a giant red X.

Sigh.

Spoiler: spoilarz (click to show/hide)

You can, in fact, complete the cure...but only if you spend every day available working on it.  That means NOT going out for drinks on the first day.  Yeah...The moral there is, your actions have effects that you can't even fathom now.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I spent my last day working on a cure.

Spoiler: Sad (click to show/hide)

My daughter, lay dead next to the entrance, her last sight the inside of a lab. She didn't know about her mother committing suicide, but I think she knew. Everyone else, dead. And me... I closed my eyes, looking at the computer screen. With a giant red X.

Sigh.

Spoiler: spoilarz (click to show/hide)

You can, in fact, complete the cure...but only if you spend every day available working on it.  That means NOT going out for drinks on the first day.  Yeah...The moral there is, your actions have effects that you can't even fathom now.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I don't think there's really supposed to be a moral, it's just tragic.

[Footkerchief]

Yeah, I realized as I was listing it that the only difference between current-me and high school-me is the sweater.  Before I started wearing it, I was frequently mistaken for a fourteen-year-old.

It's smooth (i.e. non-nubbly/close-woven/made with thin yarn, however you're supposed to say that), dark blue, long-sleeved with a white stripe along the button line, so I thought it wasn't that bad--maybe even kind of stylish.  Getting me some weird reactions, though.

Huh, yeah, that doesn't sound necessarily frumpy.  From what I remember of your photos with/without glasses, they're probably a major factor too.  Big eyes look youthful, small eyes (or ones made to look so by glasses) look older.  Clunky boots... I don't think they'd make anyone look old as such, but combined with everything else, who knows.

[Aqizzar]

When I was sixteen and my father was forty five, we stopped at a motel in Utah, and the clerk thought we were brothers.  Now, Dad has always looked young for his age and I had a giant scruffy neckbeard, so I think she thought we were like at opposite ends of our 30's or something.  Point is, it's not that usual.

[Vector]

Huh, yeah, that doesn't sound necessarily frumpy.  From what I remember of your photos with/without glasses, they're probably a major factor too.  Big eyes look youthful, small eyes (or ones made to look so by glasses) look older.  Clunky boots... I don't think they'd make anyone look old as such, but combined with everything else, who knows.

Yeah, these are the mid-calf black laceups, though I also have some ankle-cut brown ones.  "Granny boots."

As for big eyes... one of the reasons why I go for the big glasses is because I got really sick of the "Gosh, you're a tiny person with enormous eyes!  Allow me to patronize you!" reaction.  As-is, there's a real difference between the way people treat me before and after I give some sort of indication of my age.  Before, we discuss things, people are interested in my opinion, etc.  After, it's all about giving me advice and trying desperately to mother me.

Meh.  Anyway, I guess I've just got to go back to the drawing board with my look and see if I can't work out something a little bit less weird.

[Heron TSG]

When I was sixteen and my father was forty five, we stopped at a motel in Utah, and the clerk thought we were brothers.  Now, Dad has always looked young for his age and I had a giant scruffy neckbeard, so I think she thought we were like at opposite ends of our 30's or something.  Point is, it's not that usual.

People look at me and my brother and assume we are twins sometimes.

[Euld]

I've been getting up habitually at 7am-8am for the past few weeks for work.  My mom seems to enjoy greeting me in the morning with, "oh!  what you YOU doing up so early?" every. single. morning.  FINE.  I get it, she goes to bed early thus wakes up before either I or the FREAKEN SUN RISES and likes to gloat about how this makes me a lazy good for nothing.

I'm not a morning person.

[Simmura McCrea]

I've been getting up habitually at 7am-8am for the past few weeks for work.  My mom seems to enjoy greeting me in the morning with, "oh!  what you YOU doing up so early?" every. single. morning.  FINE.  I get it, she goes to bed early thus wakes up before either I or the FREAKEN SUN RISES and likes to gloat about how this makes me a lazy good for nothing.

I'm not a morning person.

My parents do that as well on the rare occasion I'm up before the normal time of 11am-1pm. I hate mornings.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Really? I love mornings.
I'm sad because we have to move house, I'm gonna miss our old house..

[Vector]

I'm leaving for school for two days and I am part sitting here freaking out because I'm leaving and part freaking out because I'm not gone yet.

Auuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh!