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Happy birthday to me! (And many of you too.)

I 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

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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Harry Birthday! We here at the Sectus cabin miss you!

Aw, thanks! I have been thinking of all of you. I hear the con went splendidly and that you are recuperating in the wilds of Wales. Say hi for me, will you? *waves*

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kabal42.livejournal.com - 2007-07-26 21:37 (UTC) - Expand

Happy, happy, happy birthday!

Thank you, thank you, thank you! It's been a great day.

Happy birthday!

Have a great day :)

Thank you! Today has been great -- better than expected -- complete with sushi and a gag gift of a pair of pacifiers (is that what you call the plastic-and-silicone baby sucky-chewy things in England?).

Hope you're doing all right over there.

Happy birthday! May you have a Wilson of your to pet (and do... other things). *raises coffee mug in lieu of glass*

Thanks! What a nice wish. :) *raises cocoa mug back at you*

Hey! Congratulations! (I hear it's all downhill from there--but at twenty-six, things still seem to be going all right, so possibly we should form a lynch mob and round up the nay-sayers for a necktie sociable.)

And! Fic! LONG fic! Oooh. I anticipate.

Hee. Fic's up. The really long one -- if it ever gets done, or, *cough*, started -- is still much in the works.

I hear it's all downhill from there

I dunno, maybe things are different in Canada. :) Gather ye neckties while ye may...

HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOOOOOUUUUUU!!!!!

THANK YOUUUUU! :D

Happy Birthday! Twenty-six was the traumatic birthday for me, because it meant I could no longer get a youth membership to hostels (there only seems to be one category over 18 now, which goes to show how old I am).

Looking forward to the fic!

Yay - it's up now.

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.

A very happy birthday to you! :-D

Thankee! And thank the ... grabby badger lemur thing in your icon. 'Tis cute.

woooooooooo biiiirttthhhhdaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyy!

:)

Suuuuushiiiiiii! And tickets -- thank you again!

Wow. I had no idea you were only barely 25. You must have an old soul.

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

ninefics these days.

Ha. I shall certainly be moseying on over to devour your SG stories.

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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theninth.livejournal.com - 2007-07-27 15:36 (UTC) - Expand

There is something very special about 25, I think, because you've now accumulated tidy sums of both book wisdom and real life street smarts: the world is your oyster, baby!

It is certainly nice to think so! Though I suspect that no matter how old you are or how much you have learned, there still seems to be an infinite amount more that you still don't know.

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purridot.livejournal.com - 2007-07-27 13:31 (UTC) - Expand

Happy Birthday! I hope you're having a fun with whatever you're doing :)

Thank you! Today was fun -- more so than I thought it would be, with lots of well-wishing from co-workers and sushi dinner and unexpected gifts from my dad and sister. Hope you're having fun with whatever *you're* doing! (Aside from possibly sleeping, with the time difference and all that.)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Cake and hugs and kisses to you!!!

YAY! Thank you -- I think I did get all three of those in various forms today.

Happy birthday! Heee! Twenty-five!

It has certainly turned out to be a day worthy of exclamation marks!

Mm, chocolate cake icon.

Happy, happy birthday!!

How awesome to share a birthday with George Bernard Shaw! I'm jealous!

Thank you! Surely you share a birthday with someone awesome?

(Dreamt last night that we met up and... now I can't remember what happened, but it was odd. Ah well.)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GORGEOUS!!! I don't have any icons of B-day candles, so here - have some Wilson instead.

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?

YAY! Thank you! Love that shot of Wilson. Scrubs and season-one cheekbones and slouch and... yessss.

LOL. And I love your supposed TMI on a regular basis.

Happy birthday ^_^ hope you had a good one. And nice to see that I'm not the only July birthday out there.

Nope, there's a bunch of us. We went for sushi tonight! Well, I had sushi; my sister did vegetarian noodles and my dad tried chicken tempura. He'd never been to a Japanese restaurant before. (For my sister's birthday last year, we took him for Indian. We'll make a world eater of him yet.)

Hey, Happy Birthday!

Thanks!

It's still your birthday where I am, so I can wish a happy one to you.

Why, thank you! I saw this at 4:30 a.m. while wandering around with insomnia and it cheered me up.

Happy Birfday! I have fic for you, but is late. Until then, here is some icons!

Is two with Byron quotes and one with the man himself, since I remembered you said your lj handle was partially about him.

~Djinn

ZOMG awesome! Thank you!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! With extra Wilson :D

Thank you!! Extra Wilson is always appreciated. *pets*

Happy Belated birthday!

Cheers! Everyone have a good time on Wednesday?

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barely-bean.livejournal.com - 2007-07-30 17:09 (UTC) - Expand

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bironic.livejournal.com - 2007-07-30 17:14 (UTC) - Expand

Thanks for the birthday wishes, and belated Happy Birthday to you too. I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to meet you again this year.

Thanks!

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....

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