My student worker had a question, but I had to tell her, "WAIT! I'm searching the Internet to find out what year Springfield's "Jessie's Girl" came out! So, hold your horses cuz I'm busy!" Well, as it turns out, it wasn't 1983 like my co-worker Thomas thought, but 1981 like I thought (because I knew I was still in the single digits when I used to watch feather haired teenagers blasting it from their cars)...which means, I'm not THAT OLD!

This all came about because another student worker is named Jessie. Thomas and I like to sing tunes that go with the words we use in conversation. For instance, Thomas will say something like, "Would you like me to install the latest version of Dreamweaver?" and I'll respond with "Dreeeeeam-weeever, I can get you through the niiiiiiiight!" Ok, so it's funnier in real life. The point is that we asked Jessie if everyone sang "Jessie's Girl" to him and he was like, "No, I've never heard of that song before." Which made us feel not just really fucking old, but also really dated. But it turns out that I'm not that old, because I was only 9 when it came out and not 17. It's not like he hadn't heard of the Beastie Boys or something.

Just for today, it's OK that twenty-year olds haven't heard of songs that I heard when I was nine...must...not...panic...yet.