birthday fun...

Wow, I'm really 28. How did that happen? Sometimes I think that's really old, but then other times (like hanging out with 80 percent of my classmates) I feel really young... hmm. Curious. I had a great birthday this year. I successfully did lots of work in the beginning of the week so that I could really enjoy the birthday.

Unfortunately, Wednesdays are my long days, with two 3.5 hour lectures, and then there were some presentations afterwards. In the second lecture (Financial Reporting), one of my group mates announced that it was my birthday, and then later on we were discussing the case study for the week and the lecturer called on me specifically because I was the birthday girl!! How mean! Everyone was pretty shocked, and he agreed that it was a terrible birthday present, but he didn't let me off easy anyway. Boo.

In the evening I did manage to scrounge up 11 friends from the program to head out to dinner. We went to the Pizza Express, spent a few hours there having dinner and a few bottles of wine, and it turned out we were in a room with lots of other birthday parties, so it was easy to share the attention and chime in to the singing at every table. ;)

After dinner we all went over to the Purple Turtle, which is the bar in the basement of the Oxford Union. It's a bit of a dive, but since it's members and guests only, it wasn't very crowded, which was nice. More fun times there and then I think we left at about 1.30am... At which point my housemate and I still managed to cycle across town to our house.

By some miracle I was also able to get myself up at 5.30 the next morning for a 6am rowing outing. Still wondering how that happened, but glad I didn't let down the boat!

My housemates were also really nice and had purchased a cake for me... but since I was out so late with the other crowd, they gave up waiting for me at 12.30 and left a note on my door. But they still saved the cake and we ate it on Thursday night. Chocolate Decadence... YUMMY!.