(Warning: I'm not in a radio-edit mood today, and there is some strong language in one particular spot with this entry.  If you're offended by such, please skip over this one.)
If you guys like irony...check this out: For most of the semester, I've been bitching about how other things poor stress management (and its fallout) has made keeping up with my courses a pain in the neck.  Yesterday -- and it will happen again today -- it was my best friend.  It helped my birthday go away with little fanfare.
What it didn't do was take away the emotional pain I've been feeling about my birthdays that has come every year like clockwork now, as sure as Daylight Savings Time.  I can't see this improving much until after New Year's either...I'm not much for the holidays because they get pushed too damn soon.  Frankly, seeing Costco put out their holiday stuff back in October was a de facto trigger and left me asking, "What the fuck?"
I try, but this is the time of year when I just can't be happy, no way, no how.