the longest birthday ever

incidentally, my birthday was 15 days ago, but i'm still getting presents :). yesterday, i received beautiful, colorful flowers from a dear well-wisher. today, i received the book i was waiting to read (as i'd written earlier) thanks to more well-wishers. incidentally, they didn't even know i was referring to this book in the post above.

how sweet!

it doesn't matter that i already own this book. the old copy will be disposed off asap. and now i have the book to look forward to in my flight back.

life couldn't possibly get any better, could it?