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May The Fourth Be With You
May. 4th, 2014 10:35 pm...Some of us have been waiting all year to make that joke.
Actually, this is a pretty good birthday for a geek to have, and if I were quicker with my geek references and/or puns I might have dug out my original trilogy DVDs and spent the day having a Star Wars Marathon. Alas.
As it is I haven't done much. Sunday is an odd day to have a birthday, and thirty-one is an oddly unfestive age, following as it does one of the Big Birthdays. I thought about trying to get a few folk together for beers and Captain America 2, but then I thought about it and realised that it wasn't so much that I wanted to see the Winter Soldier, as I felt that I really ought to do something, and Captain America was the film that I least didn't want to see.
So, I've decided that I'm a grown-up and I don't have to have a party if I don't want one, and also that you can't cheerfully fail to organise any celebrations and then spend the whole day sulking about how there aren't any celebrations and still claim to be a rational adult.
I've told my sister that she doesn't have to see Cap 2, as neither of us really care, but that I do plan to force her to see Malificent when it opens. I'm doing both cinema and fandom wrong, I know. And I expect I'll spend the next few weeks being bought Birthday Pints as I catch up with people individually, which if you think about it is much healthier than being bought them all in one night and then falling over sideways.
As for me, I've got a nice single malt (Talisker 10yr; dude, this is adulthood, at nineteen we were all drinking something that claimed to be vodka, but was probably 9/10ths drain cleaner) and the last two episodes of Breaking Bad which I've been keeping back specially.
Hope everyone's been having a terrific weekend!
Actually, this is a pretty good birthday for a geek to have, and if I were quicker with my geek references and/or puns I might have dug out my original trilogy DVDs and spent the day having a Star Wars Marathon. Alas.
As it is I haven't done much. Sunday is an odd day to have a birthday, and thirty-one is an oddly unfestive age, following as it does one of the Big Birthdays. I thought about trying to get a few folk together for beers and Captain America 2, but then I thought about it and realised that it wasn't so much that I wanted to see the Winter Soldier, as I felt that I really ought to do something, and Captain America was the film that I least didn't want to see.
So, I've decided that I'm a grown-up and I don't have to have a party if I don't want one, and also that you can't cheerfully fail to organise any celebrations and then spend the whole day sulking about how there aren't any celebrations and still claim to be a rational adult.
I've told my sister that she doesn't have to see Cap 2, as neither of us really care, but that I do plan to force her to see Malificent when it opens. I'm doing both cinema and fandom wrong, I know. And I expect I'll spend the next few weeks being bought Birthday Pints as I catch up with people individually, which if you think about it is much healthier than being bought them all in one night and then falling over sideways.
As for me, I've got a nice single malt (Talisker 10yr; dude, this is adulthood, at nineteen we were all drinking something that claimed to be vodka, but was probably 9/10ths drain cleaner) and the last two episodes of Breaking Bad which I've been keeping back specially.
Hope everyone's been having a terrific weekend!