Just this once, everybody lives!

[melannen]

I was given a suprise birthday party yesterday! When I really should have been studying for my statistics exam! (Just like now!)

Best birthday *ever.* I got two presents that I've wanted for *ages*: crochety gave me a really nice, (more-or-less) brand new, unabridged, illustrated copy of Le Morte Darthur. stellar_dust gave me a Curtiss Jenny! (Okay, it was 1/48th scale. And disassembled. But still! A Jenny! <3)

But the best part was, there were people! crochety, stellar_dust, speakerender, kenosis_kalon, zodiaccat, enemy_anime, xerahanadu, katrianya, kiskameow, keyosko, lonym82, ibowieh3, bonemarch, and ... possibly also some people whose ljs I don't know ... jumped out at me when I came home from cleaning my aunt's cat's litter box, all covered in cat hair.

If the purpose of a birthday party is to make you less regret the year gone by, it worked. I may have pretty much wasted 23 years and have no future plans at all. But. I've gotten a chance to know all those people, so my life is good! It really is.

Also, dorkiest party ever, which was awesome.

Of course, now I'm going to fail Statistics, and I didn't have time to get any Mother's Day stuff together for Mom, but it was *totally* worth it. I love you all.

Now, to try to figure out what are the chances that two out of three checkers randomly placed on a 5*5 board will end up in the same row or column. yay.

Comments

[melsmarsh.livejournal.com]

Happy early birthday.

[melannen.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[zodiaccat.livejournal.com]

Haha, glad the enjoyment may have outweighed the failing of statistics.

Also, it is just 2 out of three, or is it 2 or more out of three?

[melannen.livejournal.com]

At least two out of three. And you're allowed to have two checkers on the same square.

Happy birthday!

[kiswara.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday! Sorry I couldn't make it, what with living in California and all. But still, surprise!

Re: Happy birthday!

[melannen.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I was thinking of you at the party. :D

Just this once, everybody lives!

[emilypost.livejournal.com]

Hokey-est line of the entire current series of Dr. Who! Or perhaps I should say "last series" since it is over. (In-laws in Australia means we got DVD copies of the whole thing ages ago. Soooo good.)

Re: Just this once, everybody lives!

[melannen.livejournal.com]

I have seen all but, I think, two episodes of the series currently running on Sci-Fi (not the series currently running in the UK, which is a later series) and they seem to fall into two categories: blah but watchable, and OMG SO GOOD!

"The Doctor Dances" was the second sort. (:

Re: Just this once, everybody lives!

[emilypost.livejournal.com]

I'd be interested in which ones fall into which categories. The finale was terrific, I thought, since it tied everything together so perfectly. I could probably have done without the one early on about the flying dead people. Which ones would you call 'blah but watchable'?

Re: Just this once, everybody lives!

[melannen.livejournal.com]

The one with the Victorian ghosts, yes, not great. The one with her father, too - it had some good bits, but was half cliche and half incoherent. There may have been some others, but right now I can only recall the awesome ones.