Happy Pete! Er, my birthday!
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mrissaHey! It's my birthday! I'm 29! Happy my birthday!
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the_red_shoes wants me to be happy on my birthday, so she linked to all the Pete Seeger videos on YouTube. Eeeeee. I am listening to them with bouncy glee while I finish my birthday scone. One of them got me all sniffly and excited, because it's Pete and his grandson singing "Well May the World Go," and oh wow oh wow, especially when you hit the choruses, Pete's grandson has his voice and his exuberance. And an obvious love of his grandfather and his grandfather's music. And a band. Whose albums I must now own.
Also, we should all age so well as Pete Seeger, fierce and energetic.
Later I will open presents, take a dip in the hot tub, work on the book because I want to, have a good lunch but I don't know what yet, read something good, have dinner at Rice Paper and ice cream at Sebastian Joe's with two of the people I was with 29 years ago today (plusmarkgritter). I might bake something. I might not. Depends on what I feel like doing, because it's my birthday.
What are you making today? Stories, lunch, earrings, amends, programs, a living, a better life, connections, a garden, a bit of room to relax?
the_red_shoes wants me to be happy on my birthday, so she linked to all the Pete Seeger videos on YouTube. Eeeeee. I am listening to them with bouncy glee while I finish my birthday scone. One of them got me all sniffly and excited, because it's Pete and his grandson singing "Well May the World Go," and oh wow oh wow, especially when you hit the choruses, Pete's grandson has his voice and his exuberance. And an obvious love of his grandfather and his grandfather's music. And a band. Whose albums I must now own.Also, we should all age so well as Pete Seeger, fierce and energetic.
Later I will open presents, take a dip in the hot tub, work on the book because I want to, have a good lunch but I don't know what yet, read something good, have dinner at Rice Paper and ice cream at Sebastian Joe's with two of the people I was with 29 years ago today (plus
markgritter). I might bake something. I might not. Depends on what I feel like doing, because it's my birthday.What are you making today? Stories, lunch, earrings, amends, programs, a living, a better life, connections, a garden, a bit of room to relax?
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Date: 2007-07-26 12:37 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-07-26 12:48 pm (UTC)Apparently, I'm better at initiating others to initiate me, than I am at initiating myself. Hmm.
Introspect aside, happy birthday!
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Date: 2007-07-26 12:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-07-26 12:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-26 01:00 pm (UTC)I'm at work,
making up for being late because I overslept this morningmaking a few minutes to read lj while I wake up.Birthday horoscope!
Date: 2007-07-26 01:05 pm (UTC)http://www.elle.com/birthday/
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Date: 2007-07-26 01:08 pm (UTC)And, yes, I'm all over the whole Pete Seeger thing, but you're still too young to sing "Get up and go."
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Date: 2007-07-26 01:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-07-26 01:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-26 01:27 pm (UTC)I am making a living. I am also, indirectly, making any number of people a lot happier by fixing things which were, pre-fix, Misery Augmentors, so that's a pretty good way to make a living.
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Date: 2007-07-26 03:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-26 01:33 pm (UTC)Did you listen to and like "The Seeger Sessions?" by Springsteen?
And, randomly, Seeger and other such luminaries were all friends of my mom's family. Western Mass. commies. :)
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Date: 2007-07-26 01:34 pm (UTC)today I am making an effort to smile at people. (I'll be at the reference desk for 4 hours) Also making myself dinner of some variety, probably based on chicken. chi-kan go-od!
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Date: 2007-07-26 03:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-26 01:36 pm (UTC)hope you have a lovely one!
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Date: 2007-07-26 03:28 pm (UTC)So is running around outside the house doing all sorts of things!
My birthday is very flexible that way.
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Date: 2007-07-26 01:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-26 01:39 pm (UTC)Also: 29 is great. i'm almost done with it, but it's been one of the best so far, if not THE best.
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Date: 2007-07-26 01:49 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-07-26 01:56 pm (UTC)I'm going to start by making a cup of tea - we'll see what develops after that.
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Date: 2007-07-26 01:59 pm (UTC)Anyhoot, I shall try as ever (with a 1 in 10 success rate so far?) to get and MAIL you a post card from Pennsic, for which I shall be leaving THIS VERY AFTERNOON! (That is, if I survive jamming all my stuff into a car and driving cross country with my Friediness and all my worldly possessions of significant value strapped precariously to the top of the Durango - all while praying like mad that it doesn't rain... too much... before we can get the pavillions set up...) Please god, don't let anything else go wrong. I keep thinking that Murphy has covered everything, but then he keeps coming up with something I hadn't thought of yet...
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Date: 2007-07-26 03:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-26 02:05 pm (UTC)I don't know what I'm making today, but I have Meetings scheduled.
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Date: 2007-07-26 02:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-26 03:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-26 02:17 pm (UTC)What am I doing? Cleaning, knitting socks, and packing for a 2 week trip to the UK tomorrow :) It'll be mighty damp....
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Date: 2007-07-26 02:23 pm (UTC)I am making an effort to get in to work only an hour late today. *)
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Date: 2007-07-26 02:23 pm (UTC)I am making this bit of somebody else's code work on the Computers in the Room Full of Very Much Computer rather than on the Small Computers Sitting in the Laboratory, so that we can do things like compare it to the entire human genome.
(I am also making myself try not to fall asleep at my desk, but that is somewhat less interesting.)