Thank you to all for birthday wishes!

[avevale_intelligencer]

It's a sobering thought, to paraphrase Tom Lehrer, that when Phil Ochs (who apparently shares my birthday) was my age he had been dead for seventeen--sorry, eighteen years. We lesser artists face creative burnout with more equanimity.

It's good to have survived another year, and I put it down to the wonderfulness of the Countess, and the love and support of my friends, without whom I would have no friends. Thank you all, and let's hope 2009 is a better year for all of us.

Comments

[patoadam]

Belated Happy Birthday wishes!

[joecoustic.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!!

[grey-lady.livejournal.com]

And belatedly, happy birthday!

[valydiarosada.livejournal.com]

Oops! Happy birthday!

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

"...my friends, without whom I would have no friends."

[STUNNED EXPRESSION] My God, you're... you're right!"

=;o>

[SALUTE]

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

That actually emerged because my brain isn't working even up to its usual level of inadequacy, but thinking it over I decided to leave it in because any attempt to describe in actual terms how important you all are to me would come out sounding silly and hyperbolical.

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

You, too. *hugs*

Are you feeling a bit better now?

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Well, repeated applications of Lem-Sip are keeping the dreaded snot monster at bay, though it does mean I can't take the co-codamol as well which is a pain (er, literally). All is balance, as they say. My main problem at the moment is soreness around the ribs caused by coughing, which makes it worse when I do and adds to the general achiness and incapability.

Jan's cough is far worse than mine and her voice has gone, but today I have actually had some horizontal time myself, which is a rarity.

We'll see how it is on Monday and consider trying to get hold of a doctor in the run-up to Christmas if it seems indicated. It's not the bug itself that worries me, it's the secondary whatnots to which we are both more than ordinarily prone.

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

[NODS] And anyone who values their friends as much as you do will know exactly what you mean. (Hardened and embittered cynics, OTOH, will merely amplify and feed back their own incomprehension of/disbelief regarding the concepts involved.)

[HUGS]

[little-cinnamon.livejournal.com]

*big belated birthday hugs*

[mbumby.livejournal.com]

Happy belated Birthday.