Strange feeling of deja vu

Today I tried to listen to a guy give a Powerpoint presentation about amphibian decline. I managed to stay for about an hour. Then I had to leave before I started to gnaw my own leg off.

Here's the thing: I gave up lifetime job security so I would never again have to sit in a room listening to a PhD utter the words "controversy in the literature." And it turns out it doesn't make a damn bit of difference what topic he's saying it about.

(To get the same information as his talk in about three minutes, click on the link to my Year of the Frog article over there on the right, if it's still there.)

Strange feeling of deja vu

"Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall."

--scholar of comparative mythology Joseph Campbell, quoted in an article in today's Washington Post.

Been there, done that. Hmm, if I've got it wrong this time too, does this mean I STILL haven't reached midlife?

I could get to live forever, this way.