Thirty-five

Today, I turn 35. I don't pay much attention to age and the only way I really remember my own age is to remember what year I was born and subtract it from the current year. So if you asked me in March, I would have said I was 35 already.

I was at a conference earlier this year and one of the speakers asked how many people in the room were over 35 and how many were under. Even though I was really 34 at the time, as I already said previously, I thought I was 35 when he asked. So I couldn't really raise my hand for either group, as I was in between.

He then made some point that those over 35 were old media people and those under were much more intuned to the digital age - the bloggers, the IMers, the people who will read their news online but not in a paper.

I don't know if his statement is true, but I certainly was "in between." I get the Sunday paper, but not a paper for every day of the week. I still print out articles and blog posts that I want to read but are longer than a page. I then collect them and read them while "offline." I use an iPod but if I like an entire album (well, that is the wrong name now isn't it!), I'd prefer to buy the CD and burn it then to purchase it all digitally (but I have purchased individual songs). So I guess in some ways I do sit "in between" the two groups the speaker talked about, using old media in some regards and new media in others. Or maybe that is just me.

And one last thing...it amazes me how time speeds up at 35. Time just goes faster. The day, the week, the month, the year...