The Opposite of Belated

[rinue]

Chad called just after midnight to be the first to wish me a happy birthday. Although it is possible he just got the date wrong (my birthday is the sixth), it's equal odds that either he was honoring the Faienza three-day-birthday high holiday tradition or that he was really determined to be the first to wish me a happy birthday. (Val sort of also jumped the gun. But later on. Also Ciro. People get excited.) I admire that kind of ambition, so Chad I say to you now, two months in advance, happy birthday. If I have come in second to somebody who has already wished you happy birthday, I will die.

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[liquidmorpheme.livejournal.com]

Tomorrow I'm going to burn Chad in effigy while screaming, "Happy New Year!"

[bevjunior]

i would have still been second or third if i'd called when i had the impulse around noon yesterday.

as it is, happy birthday on the appropriate day. i hope i have a good opportunity to call and chat with you on this momentous day. when would be a good time??

LOVE down.

[rinue]

Hard to say. I am off work, so any time is really possible, but there will be various meals and possibly going to a movie and also some errands like going to the post office and also voting. (Massachusetts non-presidential primaries are really late. It's weird.) As usual, I will be awake roughly noon to 3 a.m.

[bevjunior]

are you awake roughly right now and would you like to chat briefly or maybe for a moderately extended time frame?

[rinue]

I'm on air until 2:30, but after that, sure.

[bevjunior]

i will call you exactly between roughly 2:31 and 2:37 in case you need to pee. or in case i forget i am to call you exactly between roughly those brief moments.

it had been a long-ish day... like every day, but then... we say la vee.

Rowr!

[knaveofstaves]

Y'know, I had this extended conversation with myself after I called:

I got it right, right? It's today. The mnemonic device I created to remember Romie's, Val's, and Matt's birthdays is correct! 5,6, blank 8! FIVE SIX BLANK EIGHT! I'm right. Romie's is two months before mine. See how easy that is to remember? It must be right on those GROUNDS ALOOOOOOOONE!

This went on for some time. I have now replaced it with "5,6,7,8 who do we appreciate" because that's also easy to remember. Now, if you tell me that I was wrong again, and Val's birthday is a day BEFORE yours ... well I dunno what I'll do.

You are in fact the first to wish me a happy birthday, and I thank you.

Re: Rowr!

[rinue]

I'm 6 (upside down 9 for September) and Val is 7. Scarlett, incidentally, is 9.