{ played it just like a knock on the chin; well I played it just like a violin. }

[delga]

Dear everyone who left me messages, sent me tweets or emails or texts or voice messages or cards or packages, gave virtual gifts and/or mixtapes, facebook conversations, dear all of you, thank you so much for all of those. Yesterday The Sister gave me M&Ms, I blew up my own balloon, and we went to see The Time Traveler's Wife, and then I talked to my many cousins and that was all very lovely. It's nice to have people, and to have evidence of people. Thank you, all of you.

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Speaking of giftage, I received a lot of vouchers because people know vaguely what I like but not my specific tastes. From the rents, money to spend in Marks and Spencers; from The Sister, money to spend in iTunes (yayarms!); from EBL, bless her heart, book tokens oh my gosh. From T, all the way out in San Francisco with her crazy girlfriend, a wee Edward Monkton book and a slice of San-Fran life. From fallapartagain, music, oh my. And, because I know the postal system, there will be a slow trickle of more across the week. How lovely!

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Other things that happened yesterday: I went to the centre to visit people there and kind of got pulled in to offering my services for the rest of the week? Am going in today around 11am and hoping to hear that I'm not needed. I also need to cancel plans on Thursday because I have double booked, aieface.

As for The Time Traveler's Wife, I tend to have a lot of patience for novel adaptations because by their very nature they can't encompass the scope of the text, but this one was not what it should have been. It is a film that is beautifully shot and the chronology does provide an interesting challenge, but there are a lot of montages, and a lot of skipped details that I feel should have been integral to the plot. I liked it, but I didn't love it, and if I hadn't read the book, I probably would not be interested in it at all, which is a shame, but also true. Lols at my tag suddenly not being ironic.

On the other hand, both Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams are wonderful, so, you know.

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Emily Wells' cover of B.I.G.'s Juicy remains AMAZING.

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Today I need to go to the bank and set up a savings account. My next pay cheque is going to have my six months' back-pay on it and I want the account up and running by the time that money comes in. Look at me, trying to be responsible.

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And to end: guys, only ONE PERSON produced haiku. What the hey?

Comments

[baggers.livejournal.com]

wait, it was your birthday yesterday? was i asleep in that class?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

[fallapartagain.livejournal.com]

Points for helping me in the confusion between my twitter name and LJ name! :p I'm seriously tempted to change my LJ name because I keep trying to log in as smurfberry and it DOES NOT WORK, rah.

(Except someone's using it, how inconvenient. Boo!)

[sepiaxtoned.livejournal.com]

muchos belated birthday wishes...Dayum nightshift work! xoxo

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Oh shit - um, I'll change that? It's weird because these days I associate you more with your twitter name. Sorry!

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you :)

[fallapartagain.livejournal.com]

I tend to use that name for most things now so I try and log into everything with it. I usually fail. Miserably. SIGH.

Did you like the music? :D

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

lols, which is why I have always used delga(serasca) on everything.

YES! I am still getting used to it, the way you do when you get a new album, but I'll let you know faves etc. soon. Eeee, thank you! I really appreciate it; it's such a lovely thing. I've never had a mixtape made for me before, lol.

[fallapartagain.livejournal.com]

See, I am learning this lesson the hard way.

I kept hearing those tracks and thinking "oh, I need to share this!" so I thought, what better occasion? I would've been hardcore and mailed it but I have no stamps. Also, I may have misplaced your address again - fail, fail.

[agentcat47.livejournal.com]

EEP! *headdesk*

HAPPY belated BIRTHDAY!!!! :D I'm so glad you had a good day and received so many kind birthday wishes. :)

[belantana.livejournal.com]

Yay! Enjoy spending all your voucher-money. :)