(I looked for one of Susan hugging Lucy, because you are totally the Lucy to my Susan, but while my .gif collection is terrifyingly large, it is not yet complete, so this shall have to do.)
DO NOT APOLOGIZE. If you keep stalling, my birthday could last a whole week! Seriously. I am frequently annoyed by how fragmented my life is-- my current-college friends are separate from my past-college friends, who are separate from my high school friends, who are separate from my family, who are separate from my livejournal friends... and despite my efforts to make introductions, all of these areas remain completely separate. It's totally possible for me to have a hugely social weekend and not get any work done, and then on Monday someone will be like, WHY ARE YOU SUCH A HERMIT, I HAVE NOT SEEN YOU IN DAYS? Which can be frustrating. But it makes for many birthdays. A high school friend baked me cake on Saturday, my family gave me cake on Sunday, and on Monday (my actual birthday) my friendspage basically exploded, and my college friends bought me a cupcake. And then yesterday Lass wrote me fic! It never ends! I feel so speshul.
But even though I love you, I'm going to give you some advice that you don't want to hear. DON'T LET FANDOM TAKE OVER YOUR LIFE. Seriously. Shelf my birthday fic for Christmas and go do your homework and think deep thoughts about NaNoWriMo. You don't need more deadlines in your life. I know this because I just got off the phone with my real sister, another stressed-out high schooler. She doesn't even have time to come to the Avett Brothers concert with me this weekend, and I bought those tickets for her birthday!
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Date: 2009-10-15 02:39 am (UTC)(I looked for one of Susan hugging Lucy, because you are totally the Lucy to my Susan, but while my .gif collection is terrifyingly large, it is not yet complete, so this shall have to do.)
DO NOT APOLOGIZE. If you keep stalling, my birthday could last a whole week! Seriously. I am frequently annoyed by how fragmented my life is-- my current-college friends are separate from my past-college friends, who are separate from my high school friends, who are separate from my family, who are separate from my livejournal friends... and despite my efforts to make introductions, all of these areas remain completely separate. It's totally possible for me to have a hugely social weekend and not get any work done, and then on Monday someone will be like, WHY ARE YOU SUCH A HERMIT, I HAVE NOT SEEN YOU IN DAYS? Which can be frustrating. But it makes for many birthdays. A high school friend baked me cake on Saturday, my family gave me cake on Sunday, and on Monday (my actual birthday) my friendspage basically exploded, and my college friends bought me a cupcake. And then yesterday Lass wrote me fic! It never ends! I feel so speshul.
But even though I love you, I'm going to give you some advice that you don't want to hear. DON'T LET FANDOM TAKE OVER YOUR LIFE. Seriously. Shelf my birthday fic for Christmas and go do your homework and think deep thoughts about NaNoWriMo. You don't need more deadlines in your life. I know this because I just got off the phone with my real sister, another stressed-out high schooler. She doesn't even have time to come to the Avett Brothers concert with me this weekend, and I bought those tickets for her birthday!