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[seventhe]

I got flowers today from my parents, which is sweet beyond anything. It's a really beautiful spring mix, all lilies and sunflowers and daisies and a few little roses; and they've been sitting in the study, filling up the room with (sorely needed) bright colors and just a hint of fresh sweet flower scent that I catch every now and then when I turn a page.

It's been a fantastic day here: stormy. I love the rain, like any good Taurus: it brings life and peace to us poor dry earth signs, especially those of us who are spring-born and need the refreshment. It's been actually enjoyable to sit and read through notes with rain and wind and thunder pounding the window at my back. I love storms, and today's was a good one.

I've made it through reviewing the notes for the Thermo class, the final I am sure to take on time. I am not sure what more I can do with the concepts; I find it hard to learn a concept from a single source, but for a class where the "notes" (I use quotes, for they are not exactly organized, nor clear) are the only reference material we have and every textbook I check lacks any relevant information... I guess I can only do what I can do. Memorizing is next, sadly - I hate memorizing. (I thought about sending an email asking how they justified not allowing any of us a notecard, but with all of the confusion over my finals anyway, I decided it not a very good idea.) If it goes well and I can answer the homework problems with ease, I'll probably move on to the other final -- if I could take these on time next week and just be done with everything. If.

I have near two hours left until I turn 26 (by day; by hour, I have until tomorrow afternoon). That's a sort of sobering thought - did I think I was going to be sitting home, alone, with a stack of notes scribbled on blue paper in multicoloured ink, when I turned 26? Oh well. Rarely, if ever, have I been able to predict myself at any age. And it's not really a bad thing, if one thinks about it in the right way.

(The stories and art so far are outstanding. I'm so touched and honored (and totally guilty for not observing other people's birthdays! SINGLE TEAR OF ABSOLUTE REMORSE); you all have no idea. (It's like I've inadvertantly had created for me the internet's best source ever of Seifer/Irvine porn, along with magic-meta and FFVII-crack fic. I am fantastic.))

I've had a lot of strange thoughts on life tonight, but I have an odd feeling that it's just the other half of my brain, sick of polymer thermodynamics, acting up again.

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[katmillia.livejournal.com]

If I could count the number of birthdays I've thought 'wow, I didn't picture myself here', I would get to at least half my age. But most of that comes from the fact that my dad's shut down at work was nearly always over my birthday when I was little, and he would barely be home for weeks, and then all my friends were gone- there was one birthday where I simply worked because no one did anything for it. But I think, more than anything, I've sort of discovered that it doesn't really matter what I do on my birthday. It's never really much of anything... so it's stopped mattering, I guess. :)

This year will be a pleasant shock, I think.

....

Tubby loves you long time. <3

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Yeah - like I said in the other post, it's been a long time since the actual day mattered, specifically. It's more a general, "26 is a lot of years" thing. I thought 25 was a bad milestone. At least at 25 I could celebrate a milestone; 26 is just one year older than 25. D=

This year will be a pleasant shock for you, I am thinking. As of Sunday unless Jeff and James say otherwise, I am buying a ticket SO THAT I CAN PARTY WITH YOU GUYS ON THURS.

[katmillia.livejournal.com]

I FAIL AS A PERSON but your gift is going to be sent a bit late. I am sorry. *is ashamed* I swear you'll get it by next week. :(

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

OMG YOU DIDNT HAVE TO GET ME ANYTHING D:

[katmillia.livejournal.com]

YOU DO REALIZE THAT GETTING PEOPLE GIFTS IS LIKE MY PASSION IN LIFE, RIGHT?!

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

I AM JUST SAYING!! YOU WROTE ME FIC!!

[overwhelming.livejournal.com]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOR TODAY (well, there are time differences and everything, BUT TO ME IT IS MAY 3RD SO WHATEVER)!!!!

*showers you in love and puppies and multiple other nice things*

[irish-ais.livejournal.com]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SEV. MAY IT BE FILLED WITH COCK AND AWESOME THINGS. :D

[ravenclaw-devi.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!

Your gift:

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Half the reason I love Tifa so much is because she shares my birthday! THANKS ~♥

[ssugrimgirl.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday Sev!!!!!

[shanaqui]

Hee. Birthdays are funny. My dad pretends his doesn't exist, my mum turns thirty every year, my sister gets spoiled silly and mine... is kind of a non-event. It's like, "hi, it's your birthday, but all your friends are on holiday, except you don't have many friends to start with, and hey, let's go out for a family meal". And that's about it. Most people in my year turned eighteen with loads of presents, big special parties and the like. I... got one present from my parents, one from my sister, one from Lisa, and then went out to dinner with my parents, my sister and my girlfriend. And there was hardly any alcohol involved. Hahaha.

*banishes polymer thermodynamics for you and casts slow on the world so you can do non-studying things*

[venefica-aura.livejournal.com]

I'm a bad Taurus, because I hate rain. Love Spring, but hate rain. Water and I do not mix.

I do however love those really windy days when there are like, field waves and stuff. I BLAME LIVING IN INDIANA FOR THIS. I can see why despite it being "boring" a lot of people don't leave. Farm culture digs into you.

~Cendri

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

It is probably a living thing, because where I've lived (Ohio/Pittsburgh/Buffalo) gets a pretty good assload of rain all the time and you either like it, or move away.

I guess I like it. ALTHOUGH THAT DOES NOT EXCUSE THE SNOW, GUYS.

[hilldo.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday sucka! Don't study too much today, take time out to enjoy your birthday a little bit!

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

:) That's what next weekend is for!

[jennyclarinet.livejournal.com]

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!.

I know you like caps. Good luck with the studying marathon.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

WHEEEEEEE! Party next weekend (maybe)!!

[kristinmachina.livejournal.com]

Before it's too late, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

♥ ~!