Since I started this scribbling lark I have had quite a few requests.

Quite a few have suggested I go stuff myself.  One or two have suggested “I get a life” [whatever that means] and then there are those who want to interview me for a newspaper or a school project or whatever.

Occasionally I get one from Academia from someone who wants to study me or who is doing some research or other and wants some help.  It is at times like that that I begin to wonder if I am some kind of strange endangered species, and they frantically want to dissect me before I become extinct.

I received one of the latter the other day.   EMC, who is a final year applied psychology student in University College Cork sent me a nice mail asking if I would help her with her research into [and I quote] “well-being in older adults”, and asking me if I would take a short survey.  I said I would. 

I haven’t taken the survey yet, primarily because she hasn’t sent it.  However, it seems she is having difficulty finding other “older people” who are as kind and as accommodating as me.  It appears that my ilk is more endangered than I thought.  I am considering putting in an application to declare myself as a National Monument and an Endangered Species and therefore deserving of considerable state funding.  We shall see.

In the meantime, is there anyone out there who would like to help EMC out?  She doesn’t specify whether she wants Irish or not and she is somewhat vague as to age [when I was a student anyone over thirty was fucking ancient] but she assures me that the survey is short and anonymous.  If you want to help, just send a Yay into the comments and I will pass on whatever email address you use to comment with.

Now is your chance to shape the world of the future!