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bironicI am a quarter of a century old today. It feels at once like quite a lot and hardly anything at all. Twenty-five years, and still straddling the border between adolescence and adulthood.
...That's about all I've got; for once, I'm not feeling particularly maudlin or even introspective. Perhaps it has to do with just having returned from a relaxing and fun week with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
synn, jumping straight back into work today, not having too much time in which to brood, and/or becoming naturally less, rather than more, morbid with age.
To celebrate, there will be fic later. It's not new, exactly -- I'm still working on the two stories due in August -- but rather that long story I mentioned on the 1st, soon to be unlocked. Nothing says happy birthday like an inbox full of comments, right?
Also! Very happy birthdays to those of you who are celebrating/have celebrated around now:synn, purrlia, firestorm717, alisel_kat (much belated), elynross -- am I missing someone?
Last year, I invited all of you to tell the stories of your usernames. You are still invited to chip in over there. This year, I will merely be a geek and list some celebrities who share(d) my birthday: George Bernard Shaw, Aldous Huxley, Carl Jung, Stanley Kubrick, André Maurois, Mick Jagger, Nana Visitor (Kira on ST:DS9), Helen Mirren, Kevin Spacey, Sandra Bullock and Kate Beckinsale. How strange the ways in which we feel connected to people.
...That's about all I've got; for once, I'm not feeling particularly maudlin or even introspective. Perhaps it has to do with just having returned from a relaxing and fun week with
synn, jumping straight back into work today, not having too much time in which to brood, and/or becoming naturally less, rather than more, morbid with age.To celebrate, there will be fic later. It's not new, exactly -- I'm still working on the two stories due in August -- but rather that long story I mentioned on the 1st, soon to be unlocked. Nothing says happy birthday like an inbox full of comments, right?
Also! Very happy birthdays to those of you who are celebrating/have celebrated around now:
synn, purrlia, firestorm717, alisel_kat (much belated), elynross -- am I missing someone? Last year, I invited all of you to tell the stories of your usernames. You are still invited to chip in over there. This year, I will merely be a geek and list some celebrities who share(d) my birthday: George Bernard Shaw, Aldous Huxley, Carl Jung, Stanley Kubrick, André Maurois, Mick Jagger, Nana Visitor (Kira on ST:DS9), Helen Mirren, Kevin Spacey, Sandra Bullock and Kate Beckinsale. How strange the ways in which we feel connected to people.
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Date: Jul. 26th, 2007 05:17 pm (UTC)Have a great day :)
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Date: Jul. 27th, 2007 01:01 am (UTC)Hope you're doing all right over there.
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Date: Jul. 26th, 2007 05:23 pm (UTC)And! Fic! LONG fic! Oooh. I anticipate.
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Date: Jul. 27th, 2007 01:05 am (UTC)I hear it's all downhill from there
I dunno, maybe things are different in Canada. :) Gather ye neckties while ye may...
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Date: Jul. 26th, 2007 05:39 pm (UTC)Looking forward to the fic!
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Date: Jul. 27th, 2007 01:06 am (UTC)Twenty-six was the traumatic birthday for me, because it meant I could no longer get a youth membership to hostels
Oh dear, yes, that's sad. When I couldn't get discounts at museums and travel agencies and things anymore, I said to myself, Self, you'll just have to enroll in grad school so you can get a valid student ID.
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Date: Jul. 26th, 2007 06:11 pm (UTC)You know, if I ever bothered to look at the "these friends of yours are getting older" list I would have written you a story in honour of the day.
But I don't, so I didn't. Although there's a lot of Atlantis fiction piling up in
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Date: Jul. 27th, 2007 01:09 am (UTC)I had no idea you were only barely 25. You must have an old soul.
:) I do tend to strike people as being older when we only know each other through correspondence (and yet many strangers I meet in person think I'm still in college or even high school). Also I have been accused of being 50 years old on the inside since about middle school. That's me, mature and dorky and boring -- and proud of it! (See also the Remus Lupin quote in my profile.)
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Date: Jul. 27th, 2007 01:16 am (UTC)Mm, chocolate cake icon.
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Date: Jul. 26th, 2007 09:06 pm (UTC)How awesome to share a birthday with George Bernard Shaw! I'm jealous!
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Date: Jul. 27th, 2007 01:18 am (UTC)(Dreamt last night that we met up and... now I can't remember what happened, but it was odd. Ah well.)
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Date: Jul. 26th, 2007 09:30 pm (UTC)Limited time offer. Where available. Any notions of the activity of blowing applied with intent to both icon images mentioned in this comment. Void where prohibited. TM...I?
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Date: Jul. 27th, 2007 01:19 am (UTC)LOL. And I love your supposed TMI on a regular basis.
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Date: Jul. 27th, 2007 05:07 am (UTC)Is two with Byron quotes and one with the man himself, since I remembered you said your lj handle was partially about him.
~Djinn
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Date: Aug. 1st, 2007 01:54 pm (UTC)I'm sorry for it, too. It wasn't really feasible to make the trip this year at that time. But I hear there may be more to come in 2009....