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raven ([personal profile] raven) wrote2015-01-20 09:46 pm

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Nine years ago tonight [personal profile] gavagai and I went for dinner at Freud's in Oxford, and she got me a present, and I can't remember what it was but I think it was probably a book. (Was it Persepolis? Quite possibly.) I was nineteen. I'd been an undergraduate for three months. I lived in an attic with a porthole overlooking the Ashmolean. I felt terribly grown-up.

Tonight [personal profile] gavagai and I went for dinner at the Pizza Express near St Paul's. She got me a present (it was a very cute Oyster card holder, with text: "The world is your...."). I stayed late at work to write up some notes on solar energy taxation and when I came down the lights were sparkling in the frost. I hope I never grow up.
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[personal profile] soupytwist 2015-01-20 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I hope you and L get to share adventures and awesome gifts for many years to come! Happy birthday. :) :) :)
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[personal profile] hannah 2015-01-20 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday to you!
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[personal profile] musesfool 2015-01-20 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday!
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[personal profile] riverlight 2015-01-21 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday!

(And, if you keep having this wondering approach towards life, you probably won't grow up! :))
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[personal profile] juniperphoenix 2015-01-21 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday!
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[personal profile] eccentric_hat 2015-01-21 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
That's lovely. Happy day-after-your-birthday.
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[personal profile] frayadjacent 2015-01-22 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
<3<3<3

Happy birthday!
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[personal profile] selenay 2015-01-22 02:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy (very belated) birthday!

[identity profile] littlered2.livejournal.com 2015-01-20 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday!

[identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com 2015-01-20 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you, dear!

[identity profile] highfantastical.livejournal.com 2015-01-20 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday! :) xx

[identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com 2015-01-20 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you v much. <3

[identity profile] parrot-knight.livejournal.com 2015-01-20 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
How did you get to be twenty-eight? The same way I got to be forty-four, probably. Growing up is indeed overrated. Happy birthday!

[identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com 2015-01-20 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know but it bothers me too. :P thank you v much!

[identity profile] mirabile-dictu.livejournal.com 2015-01-21 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday!

[identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com 2015-01-21 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you so much!

[identity profile] gamesiplay.livejournal.com 2015-01-21 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
Happy, happy birthday. May you always remain younger than that now. ;)

[identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com 2015-01-21 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
May we both always! Thank you, honey. <3

[identity profile] bibliotropic.livejournal.com 2015-01-21 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday! Belated, at this hour. :) <3

[identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com 2015-01-21 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Aww, thank you!

[identity profile] excitedrainbow.livejournal.com 2015-01-21 12:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday! Amazing how long ago and yet how close university feels.

[identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com 2015-01-21 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!