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[luciazephyr]

I mentioned my birthday was on Saturday to one of my coworkers.
Him: Twenty-first, right? But you don't drink.
Me: Nope, teetotal.
Him: Hell, then what's the point of being twenty-one. People like you should get to skip to twenty-two.

Alcohol scares me, ngl. And Mum already gave me my present (Changes audiobook she found for $10). I'm surprised I even remember my birthday. Last year I only remembered it, like, halfway through the day of.

Meh.



Also, just... so ya'll know, the current chapter is taking longer than expected. It's a very difficult one, so I'm not sure when it'll be done. Sorry.

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[thene]

Happy birthday! Even unremarked-upon, it's a reminder that you're here and you're growing and changing like everything does and holy shit wow, how much have you been writing lately? Do you measure your age in years or in wordcount?

18th is drinking age in the UK, and my dad pretty much ignored my 18th and outright forgot my brother's...what I remember of my 18th is oversleeping and hitch-hiking to school and being late, my best friend being very nice to me and no one else knowing it was my birthday (one person in my loosely-speaking social circle had been very obnoxious prior to his 18th so I'd chosen to be restrained about mine - too restrained, as it turned out!), and my father arguing with my brother over the TV remote while I was cooking fish in the evening.

I guess I consistently suck at birthdays unless someone reminds me not to XD

[luciazephyr]

I've probably written more in the last three months than in the last three fandoms I was in. :laughs:

Well, alcohol isn't such a big deal overseas, is it? Yanks are really big on the whole 21 thing, it seems. The fact I'm not makes me wish there was another vice for 21 that I could indulge in. I guess it just feels like I'm a few days from being 21 and that's supposed to be a gateway into adulthood, but it doesn't apply to me. In fact, I never got the sensation of passing a milestone. It's weird.

I think I'm just melancholic because of the fic right now.

[thene]

...I was about to say 'run for Congress' but that's 25, not 21. Crap. But yeah, they didn't even used to card you back when I was first buying drinks at 15-16 - I think the UK is a bit more careful about that than it used to be but it's still not the massive bizarre deal it is here (21 is way too late to be meaningful, srsly).

It is amazing how fake social thresholds are when you bother to think about life from time to time, I guess!

[sophia_sol]

Hah, I experienced that same thing when I turned the legal drinking age where I live (19? 18? I don't even know what the legal drinking age is, actually, which tells you how much I care!). It felt like it was supposed to be a big deal, but it so, so wasn't to me. Like, "hello milestone of adulthood! Nice to...not actually meet you? Wait, am I an adult? When am I an adult?"

(these days I do drink the occasional bit of alcohol but I still don't particularly care about the whole thing one way or t'other.)

Also, happy birthday!