4.8.02 – a very merry unbirthday to you!

turns out i have the same birthday as buddha. cool.

my day rolled by without too much excitement, since it was the first day of tech and i had to be in the theatre all day. no complaints, tho. cards and phone calls from far-away friends brightened the day, and the cast sang happy birthday to me in three-part harmony. birthdays stopped being really exciting after number 16. i missed the significance of 21 completely; i had been living in england for months, so the legal drinking age thing wasn’t significant, and besides, david and i had been thoroughly poisoned in spain a couple of days earlier and spent most of the day rolling around clutching our stomachs.

my grandfather called earlier today to wish me a happy birthday. i love my grandfather, but he is nothing if not square. imagine my suprise when the last thing he said to me before getting off the phone was, “if you ever need a place to crash, we’ve got a pad here.” who taught my grandfather to talk like that?