December(???) Talking Meme: Birthdays
Jan. 2nd, 2021 01:04 amFrom here, ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
belacqua asked me to talk about past/present birthdays.
This is late because I was occupied by the topic itself, naturally. Anyway, I have lucked out here because my birthday is very conveniently timed - I've always had it off automatically for school and/or work, it coincided nicely with the former's calendar for the first 18 years of my life, and it makes thinking about a new year awfully convenient.
Most of my birthdays have been pretty good, spent with friends and/or family - one time they managed to pull off a surprise party, which was pretty impressive. For the years with parties, I used to get the exact same chocolate cake every year, because I am nothing if not boringly consistent.
2020's was quite nice: a brisk walk by the river; a large slice of chocolate cake that I have leftovers of; a NYE spent with friends that featured dumplings and an unexpected yet delightful marathon of Ted Lasso. (FYI, it's a fantastic tv show about football starring a mashup of Coach Taylor and Leslie Knope. Which football? Yes.)
I have been itching to throw a proper party one of these birthdays though. Perhaps when all this nonsense is over, I will finally do so.
Time for some unrelated EOY bookkeeping.
1. I am giving Twitter a shot again, trying to focus my attention on the good and the interesting and the friendly, while muting/blocking those bad-faith actors that make the site terrible (and politics ofc). I think it is going okay so far, and my unfiltered shitposting now lives at![[twitter.com profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/e0caa790ec10/-/twitter.com/favicon.ico)
jaggedwolves.
2. Added the final update to my 2020 media list :D
belacqua asked me to talk about past/present birthdays.This is late because I was occupied by the topic itself, naturally. Anyway, I have lucked out here because my birthday is very conveniently timed - I've always had it off automatically for school and/or work, it coincided nicely with the former's calendar for the first 18 years of my life, and it makes thinking about a new year awfully convenient.
Most of my birthdays have been pretty good, spent with friends and/or family - one time they managed to pull off a surprise party, which was pretty impressive. For the years with parties, I used to get the exact same chocolate cake every year, because I am nothing if not boringly consistent.
2020's was quite nice: a brisk walk by the river; a large slice of chocolate cake that I have leftovers of; a NYE spent with friends that featured dumplings and an unexpected yet delightful marathon of Ted Lasso. (FYI, it's a fantastic tv show about football starring a mashup of Coach Taylor and Leslie Knope. Which football? Yes.)
I have been itching to throw a proper party one of these birthdays though. Perhaps when all this nonsense is over, I will finally do so.
Time for some unrelated EOY bookkeeping.
1. I am giving Twitter a shot again, trying to focus my attention on the good and the interesting and the friendly, while muting/blocking those bad-faith actors that make the site terrible (and politics ofc). I think it is going okay so far, and my unfiltered shitposting now lives at
2. Added the final update to my 2020 media list :D