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Liz’s Birthday!

 

Today, Liz and I both went through rites of passage. Liz has been twenty-one years old for some hours now; I, for the first time, spent ten minutes up to my elbow in the toilet tank negotiating a treaty with the plug.

 

This may actually have been more glamorous than my 21^st birthday, when I spent the evening listening to my aunts discuss the ever-exciting Family News and trying to talk like a pirate to them with indifferent success.  Today I felt absurdly triumphant when I hooked the little metal thingy through the little rubber thingy and convinced the toilet to start flushing again, a major achievement for such a stereotypical gurl.

 

But that is beside the point. The point is that I have lost the short window of opportunity I had to lord it over Liz that I can buy alcohol and she can’t, and that is worth celebrating. Drinks all around, and I plan to be the only sober one left by tomorrow evening!*

 

As an early commencement of the festivities, I showed her her first Bollywood movie, Kal Ho Naa Ho.  She was thrilled with the whole thing, because Bollywood is shameless in its entertainment values, although I tend to get all anthropological on your ass when I'm watching one.** And Josh introduced us to Captain Picard’s Vaudeville number,*** the true icing on the cake.

 

Actually, he’s also baking her a cake.  Josh, not Patrick Stewart.  Josh is nice.

 

Happy birthday, Liz!

 

 

*Except Josh claims he can’t get drunk.

**Actually, I do this with any movie.

***It starts at about 5:20 into the video, after the credits roll.