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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.
...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
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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:
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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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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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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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Most of my coworkers are shocked to find out I'm in my 30s. Even the ones were here when I started... something like eleven years ago. The day I turned 25, someone said to me "Man, I thought you were one of those 18-year-old supergeniuses". But when I was first online (at age 12) everyone thought I was in my late teens at least.
I look forward to looking younger than I really am. It'll be great to be in my 50s and have people think I'm in my 30s.