Coincidences are a funny thing. They happen all the time, but when they’re more noticable people tend to see them as some sort of divine intervention or whatnot. Yesterday I turned 25. Iris turned 27 on the same day. The driver of the van that gets us from the station to work and back: 50, double my age. I only found out cause he seemed cheery and I asked him why he was so happy. “It’s my birthday!”, “No shit, mine too!”
‘Twas weird, but nothing to do with the photo. Because today, one day after my birthday, we finally got the ants we ordered for the Antworks I got for xmas. We had a bit of trouble getting them in even after putting them in the fridge to slow them down (it was in the instructions, I’m not that evil normally), but eventually we got most of them in and I took some photos using the provided crappy magnifying glass to make up for the fact that I don’t have a lens that can get very close. Turned out kinda cool, I think.
i don’t like to think of the fact that my birthday is the day before yours and that natasja’s is the day before marie’s as a matter of coincidence. i much prefer to view it as a right of ownership.
yesterday! belated happy birthday, onno, and congratulations to m. as well (did she find that as strange at first as i did, this congratulating all and sundry?)! 25. spring chicken, life before you and all that…:-)
super photo!
I think the first time someone congratulated me for someone else’s birthday, it was on another of Onno’s birthdays and the congrats was coming from his mom. I remember she did a little shrug after she said it, so I thought it was just some insane thing of hers or she didn’t know what else to say to me. I think it’s a bit weird, yes, to congratulate anyone and everyone the birthday person happens to know. Not to mention all the 3-kisses that has to go on… And don’t even get me started on you being expected to bring in your own birthday cake to work…
Not the only one who got hooked up on xmas:
http://live.antsex.com
[...] We got ants for our Antworks well over a year ago, and they only dug a few tunnels before deciding they were perfectly happy with what they had and they’d just sit around and be lazy for the rest of their natural lives. These new guys are much larger and smarter. They’ve only been in there a few hours and they’re already digging their own holes and getting the few dead ants to the surface that were stuck in the gel. [...]