Today is my birthday! Today I shall have ALL THE THINGS!: seanan

Today is my birthday! Today I shall have ALL THE THINGS!

It's my birthday! Today, I am thirty-three years old. In fun math facts, thirty-three is the atomic number of arsenic, the recorded number of miracles performed by Jesus Christ (I wonder if that includes exploding the snakes?), and the largest positive integer that cannot be expressed as a sum of different triangular numbers. It's also the number of vertebrae in the human spine. So it's creepy, miraculous, and poisonously delicious. What a great number!

I've always liked my birthday in terms of time of year (winter) and numbers involved (1/5/78). I have always disliked my birthday in terms of where it falls on the modern calendar, since being born right after Christmas is a really good way to wind up annually rooked for parties and presents. This was a big issue for me when I was a kid. All the other kids got to bring in cupcakes and goody bags! I got to bring...the end of Winter Vacation. Um. Sorry about that, guys. I didn't mean to be the school year's personal seasonal monarch.

As I've gotten older, this has mattered less, largely because I am no longer forced to look longingly at the cupcake heaps of others. Now, I can buy my own damn cupcakes, and I don't have to share them with the rest of the class. I usually wind up sharing them anyway, because who needs to eat that many cupcakes, but still.

Today, I'm going to finish packing for GaFilk (I fly to Georgia tomorrow), do my normal Wednesday errands, go out for Indian food with my mother, my sister, and Kate, and attempt to reassure my cats that I'm coming back, honest, really, I swear. At some point, I may find a way to obtain some cupcakes.

Happy birthday, me! I've survived another trip 'round the sun.

Bring on the next one.

kitrinlu

January 5 2011, 23:34:08 UTC 6 years ago

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Happy birthday! :)

ironed_orchid

January 5 2011, 23:38:28 UTC 6 years ago

Happy Birthday.

Enjoy all the things.

dubie

January 5 2011, 23:47:44 UTC 6 years ago

Happy Birthday! I totally understand the lack of fun with birthdays this close to Christmas. January 2nd, between our birthdays school and work always starts back up. No parties at amusement parks and all that. You are right though now we can have all the cupcakes and parties we want. YAY! Happy Happy.

calico_reaction

January 5 2011, 23:58:00 UTC 6 years ago

Happy Birthday!

scavengerchild

January 6 2011, 00:05:43 UTC 6 years ago

deire

January 6 2011, 00:08:41 UTC 6 years ago

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

inkgrrl

January 6 2011, 00:11:43 UTC 6 years ago

Huzzah for the Royal Birthday and spankings to those who fail to observe the Royal Birthday Month!

Neat way to get around that whole XMas thang ;-)

Happiest Happy Happy! May this next turn around the sun bring you everything you want and nothing you don't.

ducktape74

January 6 2011, 00:28:29 UTC 6 years ago

Happy Birthday! As someone with her birthday on the 4th I feel your pain.

ravenclawed

January 6 2011, 00:32:31 UTC 6 years ago

Happy Birthday!!! I kept reminding myself all week that today is your birthday, so I'm glad I didn't miss it.

I hope you get everything you wanted.

hms42

January 6 2011, 00:54:45 UTC 6 years ago

Happy Birthday.

Safe travel to GaFilk.

jarissa

January 6 2011, 00:58:10 UTC 6 years ago

Happy birthday! I wish you a comfy flight and a rambunctiously fun weekend!

beckyh2112

January 6 2011, 01:00:00 UTC 6 years ago

Happy birthday, Seanan! I hope you enjoy Georgia - it's lovely country, in my experience. Of course, my experience is largely driving through it for Dragon*Con and Dragon*Con itself.

jeffreycwells

January 6 2011, 01:35:06 UTC 6 years ago

And a very happy one to you!

tezmilleroz

January 6 2011, 01:46:27 UTC 6 years ago

I wouldn't share my cupcakes, but you're more generous than me ;-)

Your Birthday - Move It?

hvideo

January 6 2011, 01:53:52 UTC 6 years ago

Would you like to sub-let my birthday this year?

I have a wonderful birthday. It's March 2nd, which means that I have a couple hundred friends from all over the world come to a location close by. We sing, and go out to dinner together, and sing some more. Sure, sometimes they are a little late in arriving (ConSonance 2011 is March 4-6 this year), but we don't let little details like that get in the way. And I'm sure we could get a Authorized Cupcake Hunting License for you for around that time of year....

joecoustic

January 6 2011, 01:55:49 UTC 6 years ago

Happy Birthday!!

See you at GAFilk :)!

soundingsea

January 6 2011, 02:02:12 UTC 6 years ago

Happy birthday to you, Awesome You!

(I've been meaning to tell you that on vacation over Xmas I finally read my long-neglected copy of Feed, and was very excited to see Buffy's username. :) And oh, man. What an awesome, delightful, heartbreaking, inventive, and did I mention awesome book!)

seanan_mcguire

January 11 2011, 22:57:57 UTC 6 years ago

YAY!

I've been way excited for you to get around to that, since Buffy's blog name WAS a reference to, well, YOU.

gorgeousgary

January 6 2011, 02:53:04 UTC 6 years ago

Happy Birthday! Lookin' forward to an awesome weekend!

alicetheowl

January 6 2011, 03:32:31 UTC 6 years ago

You are exactly 42 days older than me. While I'm sure the number means a lot more to you, to me, it means exactly one thing: between us is the answer to life, the universe, and everything.

Happy birthday. Awesome about Feed winning that Goodreads thing for best SF. And I'll see you next weekend in Boston. I'm looking forward to meeting you.

emurphy42

January 6 2011, 03:34:47 UTC 6 years ago

And will you be visiting Club 33?

queenoftheskies

January 6 2011, 03:42:10 UTC 6 years ago

dormouse_in_tea

January 6 2011, 03:51:13 UTC 6 years ago

Happy happy happy year to be. :)

cleothyla

January 6 2011, 05:24:39 UTC 6 years ago

alexwearspants

January 6 2011, 08:40:45 UTC 6 years ago

Happy Birthday! I hope the Indian is the delicious and the next year just as fruitful.

palmer_kun

January 6 2011, 10:21:51 UTC 6 years ago

You deserve ALL THE THINGS!

I know I am late, but I would like to send you a gift nonetheless.

Well, assuming you would like things that include "cthulhu", "witch hats", "stuffed", and "orange" as keywords. I'm sure you do, but it's always best to check.

Alas, to do this, I would need to tell the nice FedEx man where to go.
Gmail for me is "sirsquishington" if you so desire.

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