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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2020-10-09 02:19 pm
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I have a few thoughts just here and there

It is my birthday. Last year I couldn't think of any characters my age, but this year I am thirty-nine, which makes me as old as Jack Benny. It is a sobering thought that when Tom Lehrer was my age, he had been using that line about Mozart for two years. Actually, I am now as old as Peter Wimsey when he met Harriet Vane. I think it would be nice if things went as well as the rest of that quartet from here.

I have no idea how to celebrate a birthday this year, but I had a card from [personal profile] selkie and a card from my godchild and a card and a gift from my godmother—jewelry of green tourmaline—to start it off with. One cat watched me from the dresser and one cat curled against my hip. [personal profile] spatch has promised me sea. We'll figure something out.

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[personal profile] aurumcalendula 2020-10-09 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday!
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[personal profile] sovay 2020-10-10 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday!

Thank you!
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[personal profile] nineweaving 2020-10-09 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy thrice thirteen! I hope that quartet shows up with a cake for you.

*hugs*

Nine
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[personal profile] sovay 2020-10-10 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
Happy thrice thirteen! I hope that quartet shows up with a cake for you.

Thank you! (Oh, man, the baking of that would be epic in itself.)

*hugs*
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[personal profile] naraht 2020-10-09 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday! I wish you the sea, and appropriately social distanced celebrations.
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[personal profile] sovay 2020-10-10 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday! I wish you the sea, and appropriately social distanced celebrations.

Thank you! I had a river and the latter and it was lovely.
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Happy Birthday!

[personal profile] kathmandu 2020-10-09 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Wishing you a *good* year.
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[personal profile] sovay 2020-10-10 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
Wishing you a *good* year.

Thank you! I should like one for all of us.
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[personal profile] sholio 2020-10-09 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday! I would be happy to write a little bit of fic for you, if there's anything in particular you want.
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[personal profile] sovay 2020-10-10 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday! I would be happy to write a little bit of fic for you, if there's anything in particular you want.

Thank you so much! Er . . . Torchwood or Turn, dealer's choice, bonus points for autumn? (I'm still working on this "asking for a friend, who is my id" thing.)

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[personal profile] minoanmiss 2020-10-09 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday! *cheers*
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[personal profile] sovay 2020-10-10 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday!

Thank you!

[personal profile] ex_inklessej388 2020-10-09 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday. *COVID appropriate elbow bump*
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[personal profile] sovay 2020-10-10 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday.

Thank you!

*COVID appropriate elbow bump*

Much appreciated!

*electronic bumps back*
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[personal profile] gwynnega 2020-10-09 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday! Wishing you an excellent year to come.
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[personal profile] sovay 2020-10-10 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday! Wishing you an excellent year to come.

Thank you! Please, all round.
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[personal profile] isis 2020-10-09 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday! And the line about Tom Lehrer made me giggle, and hear it in his voice, of course.
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[personal profile] sovay 2020-10-10 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday! And the line about Tom Lehrer made me giggle, and hear it in his voice, of course.

Thank you! Yay. Tom Lehrer was formative for me.
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[personal profile] strange_complex 2020-10-09 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, happy birthday!
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[personal profile] sovay 2020-10-10 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, happy birthday!

Thank you!
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[personal profile] davidgillon 2020-10-09 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday! May this year bring fair winds and following seas.
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[personal profile] sovay 2020-10-10 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday! May this year bring fair winds and following seas.

Thank you! That's a very nice blessing.

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[personal profile] cmcmck 2020-10-09 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Hippo birdie two ewes!
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[personal profile] sovay 2020-10-10 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
Hippo birdie two ewes!

Thank you!
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[personal profile] moon_custafer 2020-10-09 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
The great thing about being as old as Jack Benny is that you can *always* be as old as Jack Benny. Many more happy 39ths to you!
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[personal profile] sovay 2020-10-10 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
The great thing about being as old as Jack Benny is that you can *always* be as old as Jack Benny. Many more happy 39ths to you!

I'll think it over.

Thank you!
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[personal profile] yhlee 2020-10-09 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday, Sonya!
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[personal profile] sovay 2020-10-10 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday, Sonya!

Thank you!
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[personal profile] cyphomandra 2020-10-09 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday!! I hope you have an abundance of sea and cats, not necessarily simultaneously.
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[personal profile] sovay 2020-10-10 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday!! I hope you have an abundance of sea and cats, not necessarily simultaneously.

Thank you!

(They do like water, but, yes.)
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[personal profile] thanate 2020-10-09 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
My father, age 40, made a quip about being older than Jack Benny at his Navy physical and was deeply disappointed when the examiner said, "Jack who?"

May your sea be birthday-worthy and your future years good also.
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[personal profile] sovay 2020-10-10 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
My father, age 40, made a quip about being older than Jack Benny at his Navy physical and was deeply disappointed when the examiner said, "Jack who?"

Oh, seriously. My sympathies are entirely with your father.

May your sea be birthday-worthy and your future years good also.

Thank you!
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[personal profile] troisoiseaux 2020-10-09 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday!!!!
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[personal profile] sovay 2020-10-10 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday!!!!

Thank you!
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[personal profile] rmc28 2020-10-09 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)

Happy birthday!

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[personal profile] sovay 2020-10-10 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday!

Thank you!
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[personal profile] rachelmanija 2020-10-09 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday! May thirty-nine be much, much better than thirty-eight.
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[personal profile] sovay 2020-10-10 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday! May thirty-nine be much, much better than thirty-eight.

Thank you! Amen.
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[personal profile] pameladean 2020-10-09 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday! May the sea give you many gifts.

P.
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[personal profile] sovay 2020-10-10 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday! May the sea give you many gifts.

Thank you!
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[personal profile] julian 2020-10-09 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday, and happy sea-to-be, knock wood.
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[personal profile] sovay 2020-10-10 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday, and happy sea-to-be, knock wood.

Thank you! (Today it was a river, but it was still great.)
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HIPY PAPY BTHUTHDTH THUTHDA BTHUTHDY

[personal profile] nodrog 2020-10-09 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)

A gift:

Window Swap Lets You Enjoy the View From Other People's Windows Around the World

"Travel may be on hold, but that doesn't mean the views have to be."

https://www.travelandleisure.com/travel-tips/offbeat/window-swap


* Anyone who knows of Basidiumite will certainly have read of Eeyore’s birthday party.

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[personal profile] sovay 2020-10-10 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
Window Swap Lets You Enjoy the View From Other People's Windows Around the World

Thank you! That's lovely.

Anyone who knows of Basidiumite will certainly have read of Eeyore’s birthday party.

We would have played Poohsticks this afternoon if the bridge in question hadn't been so crowded.

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[personal profile] thistleingrey 2020-10-10 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday! I had forgotten about age and Lord Peter, who now *winces* seems a bit young, though I haven't reread since my twenties. Time is strange and agreeably stretchy.
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[personal profile] sovay 2020-10-10 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday!

Thank you!

Time is strange and agreeably stretchy.

It is. I am doing my best to live in it.
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[personal profile] sovay 2020-10-10 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
Happy happy birthday!

Thank you! And thank you for the links! I am glad of the letter, and of the Wide Awakes, and I will definitely look for Home Fire. I love Anouilh's Antigone.
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[personal profile] dramaticirony 2020-10-10 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
Best birthday wishes! May the year ahead be filled with hope and unexpectedly good surprises!
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[personal profile] sovay 2020-10-10 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
Best birthday wishes! May the year ahead be filled with hope and unexpectedly good surprises!

Thank you! I like those kinds of surprise.
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