sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey: passion)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2013-10-09 01:11 pm

It's the year when some poet said we must love or accept the consequences

It is my birthday. I am thirty-two years old. I woke to [livejournal.com profile] derspatchel calculating when I would be thirty-three and a third. (Sometime in February 2015.) I have a card from my parents with a midway motif, a copy of Evangeline Walton's She Walks in Darkness (Etruscan!), and from Rob a framed print of the iconic sign of Lyndell's Bakery, a meeting point between our households when I lived on Dartmouth Street; now we visit it together. It will be the first piece of art we hang in our new home. We are going to spend the afternoon at New England Aquarium and then see if we can catch the restoration of The Caine Mutiny (1954) at the Brattle. It is clear and sunny outside, bright autumn. So far, this day, so good.

[identity profile] ashlyme.livejournal.com 2013-10-09 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday! And yay for new art and aquariums. Your thirty-three and a third will almost chime with my forty-first.
Edited 2013-10-09 23:00 (UTC)

[identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com 2013-10-10 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
YES PLEASE. *votes early and often for this* We'll assemble a jam session of quirky and expensive electronic instruments, and sacrifice a large and intriguing cake. Parsnip-brown butter-spice with a bourbon and brown butter Swiss meringue cream?

Oh my God what if my hair's gone entirely white. I won't be able to come out of the kitchen. But you bet your ass I'll be there.
chomiji: A chocolate cupcake with a birthday candle and the title Birthday Love! Make a wish ... (birthday love)

[personal profile] chomiji 2013-10-09 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)

Happy birthday! I hope the 'quarium was all you expected and more!

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[personal profile] aliseadae 2013-10-10 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday!

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2013-10-10 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
Happy Birthday!

Sounds a lovely plan for the day, and I hope it's even lovelier than it sounds.

(I started to wish you a happy day on FB, but I find myself suspecting you'd rather keep that particular piece of information out of the hands of said social networking medium.)

[identity profile] dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com 2013-10-10 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
*squeaks in* Happy birthday!

[identity profile] ron-drummond.livejournal.com 2013-10-10 07:02 am (UTC)(link)
Happy 11,689th Day! I hope it is as fabulous as your 11,688th, and that you are gifted with thousands of days more that are full of magic, goodness, and love.

I swooned when I saw my first actual John Singer Sargent oil portrait!

I see that your 12,000th day will be on August 17, 2014. And that you will be 33 1/3rd on February 7th or 8th 2015, depending on how you wish to count. One third of a standard year is 121 & 2/3rd days, and 121 days after your 33rd birthday is 2/7/15, a Saturday, and 122 days after is 2/8/15. Great weekend to throw a 33 & 1/3rd Party! Let everyone bring vinyl for the turntable. A day and night and weekend to remember. Bless you!
Edited 2013-10-10 07:03 (UTC)

[identity profile] gaudior.livejournal.com 2013-10-14 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Gah, so sad I missed this! May you have a year of love and friendship and family and books and writing and poetry and movies and reviews and good health and tasty food and all the ocean you could ever want! Love you

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