happy_birthday_e_o_i raze i hope you're having a great time in england right now, and i hope you're having the best day today, plucking ripe fruit from the heartiest syntax trees and feeling happy and loved. sending you hugs from a little less than four thousand miles away. 220620 ... tender_square happiest of birthday’s to you, e_o_i! wishing you a wonderful day and year ahead, friend. hope you’re living it up in england; can’t wait to read more about your adventures in those unique and character-driven narratives that only you can deliver. lots of love from the mitten. 220620 ... nr happy birthday, e_o_i! (imagine that without the r pronounced/with an attempt at a british accent.) hope you celebrated well and are having a jolly old time in jolly old england. 220620 ... e_o_i Thanks everyone!! Some of my keyboard keys are only working intermittently, so I haven't been able to write much. (And thanks! Basically I had a great trip, but technology kept failing me.) 220622 ... raze this time i get to say, "i hope you're having a great time in germany right now, and i hope your day is full of all the best things." or, in german: ich hoffe, du hast den schönsten tag. wie ein weiser mensch einmal sagte, bedeutet die unausweichliche mondalität des germanischen vorstoßes, dass man nie alleine eis essen muss. 230620 ... e_o_i The last part escapes me... Something about not eating ice cream alone? :) But yes, thank you!! I had a great day. A little bittersweet, because it's the last full day in Vellmar/Kassel/Germany as a whole, at least for now - tomorrow I leave early for the airport. Patricia was sweet and baked me a cake. She, TK, and I (Arild was away) had a good chunk of it for breakfast. And I blew out candles atop wooden blocks in the shape of a 3 and a 5. I keep using the word sweet, literally and metaphorically, but it's worth saying again to raze and everyone: you too are sweet, in the best way, and I hope you and blather have many more birthdays!! 230620 ... e_o_i Google_Translate says: "I hope you have the best day. As a wise man once said, the inescapable mondality of the Germanic advance means that you never have to eat ice cream alone." ...shame on Google Translate for not getting "ineluctable modality" right! (Also I'm a heretic and didn't celebrate Bloomsday this year, but I do mean to get to Ireland one of these days. Onward!) 230620 ... kerry happiest of birthdays to you, e_o_i! glad you had cake for breakfast. that's the way to do it. 230620 ... tender_square happy birthday to you, e_o_i! 230620 ... nr herzlichen glückwunsch zum geburtstag, e_o_i! hope you've had a wonderful day. 230620 ... nr happy birthday, e_o_i! i hope you have a great day celebrating. i am toasting you with my black tea (clinking the mug with your turmeric tea) from afar. 240620 ... raze i'd like to add to that celebratory toast by raising (razing?) my bottle of water. i hope you have the best day, full of adventures that are as daring or low-key as you'd like them to be. 240620 ... Soma hip, hip, hoorae_o_i! 240620 ... e_o_i Thanks everyone! I return belated toasts and well-wishes; I wish you awesomeness and awe-soma-ness. And I'm sorry for seeing this late, but I didn't check blather last Thursday - it was only today I thought, "Oh, one person might have said happy birthday" and I was right x 3, though tardy. 240626 ... raze did i ever tell you about the dream i had in which you were the point guard on the basketball team i found myself a part of? your court vision was masterful. anyway. i hope you have a really great day. 250620 ... ovenbird Happy birthday e_o_i! I hope you have a wonderful day planned full of all the things that make you feel alive! Also, it's been really wonderful to get to know you through your words (your story yesterday on first_crushes about your French teacher made me laugh). I'm glad you're here and I hope your birthday is marvelous. 250620 ... nr hope you’re having a wonderful day, e_o_i! 250620 ... e_o_i Hey, thank you, everyone!!! I can barely basketball in real_life, but in dreams I can fly sometimes, so... And the Valentine's Day story in first_crushes reminded me of overthinking which cards I would give which people around that age. I'll put that in valentines_day. Anyway, this made me smile, especially since I'm still recovering from a head-clogging nuisance of a cold. Ah, birthdays. 37 feels like such a dull number. Not a nice divisible one like 36. I couldn't do much yesterday, but I did listen to a live online interview for world_refugee_day, which wasn't fun exactly but still fascinating. Tomorrow, my cousin Lia will be here and there is a rumour of cake. 250621 ... raze here's to a day full of whimsy, fun, and friendly weather. and perhaps an impromptu musical performance or two from a gathering of inanimate objects, just to keep things a little surreal and unpredictable. i hope you have a great birthday. 260620 ... ovenbird Happy birthday e_o_i! I hope there are poems, and fascinating dreams, and time with people you love, and cake, and concurrent toilets. You always bring things that are brilliantly unexpected to your writing so I hope you find something brilliantly unexpected wrapped up in the day. 260620 ... nr herzlichen glückwunsch zum geburtstag, die verkörperung der unverständlichkeit! or: happy birthday, the embodiment of incomprehensibility! (this is the closest the translation could get.) hope you're having a fabulous day with good eats and music and all other celebratory ingredients your heart desires. 260620 ... releaseofwarmth Happy belated, twin. I heard a young person refer to a comrade as twin and he made it sound cool. It's also a gemini joke. I hope it was fruitful and that you were made to feel special. 260621 ... e_o_i Thank y'all so much! I was lazy yesterday, mostly making_crossword_puzzles (one crossword puzzle, a measly 10 x 10 square in four irregular quadrants) before I braved the rain to attend a poetry thing where no one bought my books but a writer I liked remembered my name. Oh, and I pitched a workshop idea to the bookstore owner and got a maybe! (It's about humour in writing and I need to make an outline this week.) nr, at first I only understood the first half of the German sentence, but when I read the translation, I was able to parse the words in the second half. My brain (maybe like other brains?) takes a longer time to divide compoundwords inanylanguage but they're fun anyway. warmthofrelease, I'm curious now, when is your birthday? If it's in Gemini it's probably passed, so happy belated birthday too! 260621 ... warmthofrelease No, sorry for the confusion, me a September Libra. (see happy_birthday_warmthofrelease) 260621 what's it to you? who go blather from