Poll: It's my birthday!

[alias_sqbr]

So today it is my birthday. I have had the odd moment of "OMG I'm thirty" but overall am ok with being so Very Old.

To celebrate, a poll:

EDIT: Yes, you will have to round up/down. But this way I get a mean and standard deviation!

[Poll #1489109]

And now to have a lie down, because the last few days have been fun but tiring.

Comments

[ilumiari.livejournal.com]

I'm 21 and a bit. 21 and a bit is not an option. Would have liked an "other" field :)

[alias_sqbr]

That sort of poll question doesn't allow them, unfortunately!

[greteldragon.livejournal.com]

I rounded up to 25. I am not actually 25.

Man now I feel ancient. :(

[alias_sqbr]

Yes you are SO OLD.

[greteldragon.livejournal.com]

:D

I want to stay 23 till I turn magically into an old crotchety 50yearold lady with a shotgun, a front porch and knitting. Can't wait till those times.

Also Happy Birthday, I forgot to say it in the earlier post.

[alias_sqbr]

Thanks. And I think you can be crotchety at 23 if you put your mind to it.

[greteldragon.livejournal.com]

Haha. It could be argued that I'm quite practiced at it really. :P

I am currently making an effort to be less angry and grumpy at people atm though, which has so far meant I've spent most of my time alone reading Mercedes Lackey (it's cheering!) to avoid starting fights on the internet. :P

[alias_sqbr]

I distract myself by getting involved in non-angry making but time consuming conversations (like, say, making polls...)

[sanguinity]

Rounded down to thirty-five. Because one should not get to claim forty until one has earned forty. :-)


Many happy returns, whippersnapper!

[ariaflame.livejournal.com]

Similar. Though rounding my age to the nearest 5 does indeed go to 35. For at least another 6 months.

[bunny-m.livejournal.com]

Funnily enough, I got the same. ;)

[alias_sqbr]

I can understand that. Thanks ^_^

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

I do wonder whether there would have been more of a bell curve if the options had been 5N+4

(I've not earned forty yet, but rounded up anyway)

[alias_sqbr]

Then people would get all confused on how to round, though.

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

Hmm. True that.

Ranges?

[alias_sqbr]

Then I wouldn't get the mean and standard deviation!

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

But you're already bucketing the data; I just meant alternative wording (current poll's the equivalent of 0-12,13-17,18-22 etc).

Moot point though; it doesn't look like that many of us 38-39yos have been rounding down :)

[alias_sqbr]

Oh yes, I worded it terribly.

[pedanther]

"Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years."

[seaya.livejournal.com]

I am 32.

[pedanther]

Hmm. If I round my age to the nearest 5 years, then I have to pick "30" - but my real age is "Nope, you old fogey" for another 11 months.

Eh, what the heck. It wouldn't be the first time I did something that looked self-contradictory.

[alias_sqbr]

The first question deals in approximations, the second is exact, I see no contradiction (except in how I asked the questions)

[penchaft.livejournal.com]

happy birthday miss lady doctor you :D

[alias_sqbr]

Thankyou!

Though that's Mrs lady doctor to you.

My mother in law sent me a card for "Mrs *my married name*", Cam is going to have a talk with her about how that's Not My Name :)

[penchaft.livejournal.com]

I can't ever imagine why that would bother you! :p

[infamyanonymous.livejournal.com]

I think actual chronological age is largely irrelevant :P

Happy Birthday!!

[alias_sqbr]

It's a number, I like numbers :)

[delicious-irony.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday S!

Probably won't be able to make your shindig, alas. Will most likely be dead from graveyard shifts (which is oddly appropriate).

Much love anyway. :)

[alias_sqbr]

Alas. Thankyou for the good wishes.

[red-elf-49.livejournal.com]

Hehe, I get the feeling I'm the youngest person in the quiz (19). Figured I'd round up. Also, the lack of a histogram annoys me (bar graphs just aren't the same).

[alias_sqbr]

I believe you are the youngest, yes. There is a definite lack of decent analytical graph making tools on lj, hmmph.

[elaran.livejournal.com]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

i inserted 'a bex and' before the lie down part of your last line. thank you brain?

[alias_sqbr]

Thankyou. And I had Vampire Diaries instead of Bex :)

[ataxi.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday! I rounded up to 35 so you'd feel young!

[alias_sqbr]

Hah, thanks, but there's no need to abandon mathematical rigour on my account :)

[furikku.livejournal.com]

I kind of rounded down because apparently 30 is Important or something so 27 probably doesn't count.

I think I feel more 30 than 25, but really I guess I just feel 27.

I am not good with age. I don't quite get it. >_>;

[alias_sqbr]

27 counts if you want it to! I started feeling 30ish when Cam turned 30, so around 28.

I often forget how old I am, sometimes I have to go "Well, it's 2009, so I'm around 29.." (the advantage of being born very near the turn of 1979/1980)

[furikku.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha, I do the same thing. I always hope I don't look too weird going, "Hang on, um... *mental arithmetic*" to people. ^_^;

Really, after 25, there just wasn't much reason to keep track.

[nixwilliams.livejournal.com]

i CAN'T WAIT to be 30! i love getting older!

[alias_sqbr]

Huh, for some reason I always assumed you were slightly older than me. Must be because you're so mature :D

i love getting older!

Good for you, since you can't help but do it :) I'm ambivalent about it, overall. I'm certainly not overwhelmed by "OMG SO OLD MY LIFE IS OVER", I think I was more freaked out at being 22.

[nixwilliams.livejournal.com]

also, happy birthday! did i say that already? oh well, i'll say it again: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

what is it that makes you feel ambivalent?

[alias_sqbr]

Thinking about how I feel about being 30 makes me think about my life up til now and into the future, and these are not happy things to contemplate given how drastically my horizons have shrunk in the last year :(