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[coraa]

Happy birthday to me!

It's interesting to share a birthday with Veteran's/Armistice Day. I was born on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, in Germany -- but at just a little after ten in the morning. (My mom always said, wryly, that after so many hours of labor I might as well have held out one more so it could have been the eleventh hour. I guess my sense of history wasn't that acute when I was that small.) When I was little, my dad was in the Army overseas and I attended a school run by the Department of Defense. The Department of Defense takes Veteran's Day rather more seriously than most people, so every year I got my birthday off as a holiday. (None of the schools I attended thereafter considered it a no-school holiday, alas.)

Now it's that I know that, on my birthday, many of the blogs and LJs I read will be full of people writing about fields in France and war and death and peace and grief and remembrance, and poppies. It's not a bad way to have a birthday, if a bit melancholy.

In ten years, my birthday will be on the hundredth anniversary of the Armistice.

(My plans for today involve Thai food for dinner, and that's about it. More exciting plans for later.)

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[catbird.livejournal.com]

UCIrvine takes today as a holiday. Of course for a grad student, holiday just means a day where you can catch up on work without pesky classes or TA responsibilities getting in the way.

[catbird.livejournal.com]

Oh and happy birthday! *hugs*

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :D

[profgreg.livejournal.com]

I didn't even know it was a holiday until someone mentioned it yesterday. But my class wanted me to hold office hours today anyway, so I don't even get the day off from TA work. Not that I mind... I actually enjoy the office hours part... it's the grading that sucks.

Anyway, happy birthday!

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I haven't had Veteran's Day off since my dad left the army. I could've used a vacation yesterday. ;)

[donaithnen.livejournal.com]

happy birthday!!! :)

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[triath.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday to you and my mom! :]

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[eepmirva.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday! Have fun with your Thai food! :o)

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It was yummy.

[archonsengine.livejournal.com]

My mom always said, wryly, that after so many hours of labor I might as well have held out one more so it could have been the eleventh hour. I guess my sense of history wasn't that acute when I was that small.

It's not your fault that she gave birth in the wrong time zone.


More seriously, though, happy birthday!

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Hee hee.

Thank you!

[madduckdes.livejournal.com]

HB, yo!

[coraa.livejournal.com]

:D

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday!

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[http://users.livejournal.com/greensleeves_/]

Happy birthday. For some reason your birthday always seems to fall right when I've bottled a new batch of wine. It probably has something to do with the fact that I've been giving wine for Christmas and I like it to mellow in the bottle for at least a month before giving it away.

So tonight, as on many other nights, I will be raising a glass to you. :)

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, wine.

Thank you. :)

[zalena.livejournal.com]

Yes, many happy returns! I recommend Kate Beaton's blog if you don't read it already. She's a marvelous cartoonist in a historical vein: http://beatonna.livejournal.com/

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link! Those are fantastic.

[marvinalone.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday! You have won a lolcat:

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Awwwwww! I made an embarrassing girly squeaking noise when I saw this. ♥

Thank you.

[erik]

Felicitations!

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[morganlf.livejournal.com]

Happy birfday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Great icon, too.

[thumbie.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!!!

Can I give you a gift certificate to Zappos for shoes, or have you acquired lots of shoes since your last post on the topic?

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Aww, that's sweet of you! You don't have to get me anything, of course, but if you'd like to, no, I haven't bought any shoes yet, so that would be wonderful. ♥