It always manages to be the WORST day of the year for me. Either I'm bothered by thoughts that I have to grow older, or by things I'm not doing that I feel I should be, or just because someone always manages to come along and make it positively HORRIBLE for me... I'm not looking forward to it.
And since I'm stuck in Japan this year... I'll add this one to the list of ruined, horrible birthdays.
I am, however, looking forward to celebrating somehow with April. (Her b-day is a couple weeks after mine.)
Next topic: I realized today that a ton of the elementary students are very attached to me, which is sad because today was my final lesson for the first, third, and fifth graders at one of the schools. Many of them don't want me to stop teaching them. But Tamarah-sensei hates Japanese schools, kids. It was a relief to step out of those classrooms.