Birthday Wishes

I'd like to thank all of you for your fine birthday wishes. I had a bit of a rough morning (eventually I'll write about that--it's part of an ongoing saga), but by afternoon things were peachy. I met Paul for lunch, which I had only done once before, and enjoyed a surprisingly tasty and unstomach-offending Brazilian flatbread pizza slice. It was nice to see Paul for lunch--he always seems so happy to see me! Anything to break up the workday, I guess. I made all my Chinese class, was "strongly encouraged" to come to a meet-and-greet for visiting Chinese scholars on Thursday, and came home to whisked away to a local steakhouse for a delicious prime rib dinner. Then I had to come back home and study for a Japanese test, which was a bummer but at least I was able to take the time to go out to a nice dinner.