No bad news here

( virus stuff )

I had a completely uneventful birthday. We didn't even make a cake. I always feel disappointed about my own birthday and guilty about other people's -- I should have done more, I should have made a bigger deal of it -- so in a way it was nice not to be able to go anywhere or see anyone; it couldn't have been a big production no matter what I did, which took the pressure off.

My mother can't go out and buy cards, so she sent me a valentine.