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younger than i look, apparently
Jan. 4th, 2018 08:27 amThe UCR Pokemon Go group does not skew young, for most part (and, frankly, most of the Riverside players I've met have all been in their late 30s and 40s, with a strong showing of 50 and 60 year old folks, too). Most of us are grad students, with a very few undergrads, and a couple of older folks who are staff members (one of them works admin in the chem dept, another is a security guard apparently).
So there have been folks who I've thought were undergrads and was pleasantly surprised to find out they were grad (such as the one cute dude who vaguely looks like a 90's Cantopop idol). Last night for our evening walk (the four-hour lure event ends today) we had an undergrad freshman join us, who's practically the youngest so far.
But the other night a couple of the regular dudes were complaining about needing "old man power" and making jokes about being old, and I was like "how old are you?" because I wanted to keep walking, and he was like "I'm old enough!" I figured he couldn't be that old, so I patted his head and said, "I'm 33, get the fuck up and let's go." And there was a collective mini-uproar (and hyena laughing) because among them I was definitely the oldest (I'm pretty sure none of them were born in the 80s, tbh).
Last night one of us got the gold medal/badge for walking 1000km and this started a round of comparing badges. I haven't evolved as many, or caught as many as the other Level 37 in the group, and Cantopop Idol blows us all away in terms of how many berries he's fed to gyms, but I'd walked 2222km (next highest was like, 1300km), hatched a comparable number of eggs (which is a thing that happens when you walk a lot), and visited 21,000 Pokestops (next highest number was 17,000). So I've done okay, generally! I'm pretty proud of how okay I've been doing, especially on the walking front.
Later, while getting a ride home with a bunch of these dudes (and a rousing hilarity over driving slowly and around the University Village parking lot in order to claim a gym and whatnot), I said to the driver, "I approve of this soundtrack, Justin, it reminds me of the soundtrack of my life in the late 90s." And there was a round of "I can't believe you're 33" and I found this very interesting! Apparently I don't look 33 and "you look like you're OUR age!"
And in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter, but it's really funny, because I remember when I was around ages 12 - 14, I was consistently being mistaken for being much older than I was, and online, still in my teens, I apparently spoke in such a way that folks thought I was in the late 20s or 30s. It makes me wonder what age I'll appear to be when I hit my 40s. Maybe I shall be age-appropriate then.
So there have been folks who I've thought were undergrads and was pleasantly surprised to find out they were grad (such as the one cute dude who vaguely looks like a 90's Cantopop idol). Last night for our evening walk (the four-hour lure event ends today) we had an undergrad freshman join us, who's practically the youngest so far.
But the other night a couple of the regular dudes were complaining about needing "old man power" and making jokes about being old, and I was like "how old are you?" because I wanted to keep walking, and he was like "I'm old enough!" I figured he couldn't be that old, so I patted his head and said, "I'm 33, get the fuck up and let's go." And there was a collective mini-uproar (and hyena laughing) because among them I was definitely the oldest (I'm pretty sure none of them were born in the 80s, tbh).
Last night one of us got the gold medal/badge for walking 1000km and this started a round of comparing badges. I haven't evolved as many, or caught as many as the other Level 37 in the group, and Cantopop Idol blows us all away in terms of how many berries he's fed to gyms, but I'd walked 2222km (next highest was like, 1300km), hatched a comparable number of eggs (which is a thing that happens when you walk a lot), and visited 21,000 Pokestops (next highest number was 17,000). So I've done okay, generally! I'm pretty proud of how okay I've been doing, especially on the walking front.
Later, while getting a ride home with a bunch of these dudes (and a rousing hilarity over driving slowly and around the University Village parking lot in order to claim a gym and whatnot), I said to the driver, "I approve of this soundtrack, Justin, it reminds me of the soundtrack of my life in the late 90s." And there was a round of "I can't believe you're 33" and I found this very interesting! Apparently I don't look 33 and "you look like you're OUR age!"
And in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter, but it's really funny, because I remember when I was around ages 12 - 14, I was consistently being mistaken for being much older than I was, and online, still in my teens, I apparently spoke in such a way that folks thought I was in the late 20s or 30s. It makes me wonder what age I'll appear to be when I hit my 40s. Maybe I shall be age-appropriate then.