kinship
yesterday i felt officially OLD. REALLY OLD.
i was trading some emails with an unfamiliar employee. i asked her to interoffice me a document. it had not arrived yet by the next morning, so i told her that the mail can be a little slow and that i would let her know when it finally showed up. she wrote back "great. thanks!" and i thought i was done.
but no. she wrote back a few minutes later:
btw, GO BEARS! (class of '06)
:)
i managed to write back something cute (like "yay! go bears!") but inside i was dying. later i pointed out to a similarly-aged friend: "when she was graduating from college, i had already been working here for eight years."
good golly.