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That's my desired career, too!

And it was inspired by joining the PPC, wouldja believe.

I hate life. Life sucks. No children in the future, offered jobs which I'm scared of and worse. And yeah, it involved phone contact (which I'm terrified of. I'm no good talking face-to-face, let alone on the phone). Fortunately, I came up with a perfect solution to turn it down. My mum's heavily, heavily disabled and a 9 to 5 job from Mondays to Fridays would stop her ever leaving the house to go to my grandparent's as I'm the only one capable of helping her (i.e. lifting her and her wheelchair up large steps).

Hitting 21 in a couple of months, actually. Fun.

Well, I'm doomed to spend a loveless existence. Yay?

And please, don't mention the 'w' word. Urgh. Just got asked about a job as an administrator for "Pinnacle Staffing." Meep. Don't want. Don't want! My computer skills tend to revolve around reading the manual and then fixing mistakes by people who didn't. It'll involve people. I'm still waiting for work experience. I just don't want to look ungrateful. Meep!

It's one of those ones that starts with a two. I think. Holocene, isn't it?

Life hasn't been around all that long in the scheme of things :D

It wasn't until I remembered how long ago the... Cambrian explosion, is it? was, that I realised, yeah, a thousand million years is actually quite a long time.

We're in the Anchovy now.


... on a slightly more serious note, what century ARE we in? As in, what Earth century, not what Disc century?

Not when you consider the Earth itself is 4.6 billion years old ... :D

I keep thinking we're still in the Century of the Fruitbat.

Yeah, you've infected me with that, you know. A book I was reading the other day, probably Mutants, mentioned a thousand million years ago. Think they were talking about Hox genes. And I thought "a thousand million? That's... not all that long, is it?"

... tell myself we're in the Century of the Anchovy.

I have a horrible tendency to have a similar conversation on those rare occasions when I get IDed. My automatic response tends to be "Dunno, what year is it?"

and never truly comfortably. My best real life female friend in the last three years was a lesbian. Oh, yeah. I'm good with women.

... as a qualified biologist, that if you get on okay with women and children, that is all the requisite things for breeding. Y'know, women. Getting on with them helps if you wish one to bear your offspring.

I've always been comfortable with children. Never people of my own age or older. And of people my own age, I've always been more comfortable with women. I never had a "ew, girls are disgusting" stage. I *coughs* vaguely remember even skipping with the girls in lower school (though, in Year Four, I was the only boy in that year, so that may have been simply having nothing better to do).

Yes, it still requires two people to make a child. While they don't have to be in the same room at the same time to make one, personally I'd say it's probably a bit more entertaining for them if they are ...

... if you can't get comfortable with people, you probably don't really want children, do you? They make noise and mess, after all.

is a massive understatement. I can't get comfortable with anyone in real life. Pop goes my chance at having children?

.. but you do interact with them a LOT. To the exclusion of almost all other people.

Yes, proofreading might suit you a bit better if you're not a social type.

a proofreader. Being a geologist might require interacting. With people. *shudders*