Birthday Highlights
Wow. I wanted to keep this birthday (unlike previous, monkey pinata beating birthdays) low-key. I succeeded. But the day still kicked ass as friends and coworkers and MIT students alike showed me love. Thanks y'all. Here are just a few highlights from Birthday 2007.
Waking up to find the new roommate, Kayla, had baked me strawberry cream puffs. (I thought I must be having an "oh crap I'm still asleep but dreaming I'm awake" dream at this moment but the cream puffs were real. Deliciously real!)
Wearing my panda ears around work. They're comfy.
Getting loads of happy birthday greetings from my peeps all day long.
Being surprised with a balloon sculpture, floral arrangement, book array installed after an MIT student was sent to lure me out of my office on a false pretext. This would have worked a lot better for him if I weren't such a suspicious person.
Getting invited to participate in the Somerville News 'Writers Festival' in November alongside Tom Perotta, Steve Almond and Robert Pinsky. Hot damn!
Having Amy call me to sing Happy Birthday to me and then say, "I hope you appreciate that I'm doing this in the middle of Barny's. People are looking at me."
Finding that Tracey bought me the panda school folder I wanted from the grocery store but didn't buy because I was pretending to be an adult that day. She knows me better than that.
Finding that all my novel copies had arrived from HarperCollins. What a happy coincidence!
Getting the pink cupcake holder from the very handsome boyfriend. The very same cupcake holder I was extolling the virtues of the day before. It holds 36 sweet cuppin' cakes.
Eating more strawberry cream puffs.
Watching "Breaking Away" again. Very handsome boyfriend had never seen it. I have a spot spot for that film.
It was a lovely, happy day. Thanks to everybody who made it so.