{"id":669,"date":"2009-07-29T23:03:34","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T03:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jedbrubaker.com\/?p=669"},"modified":"2009-07-30T00:07:51","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T04:07:51","slug":"because-i-only-dont-turn-30-one-more-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/29\/because-i-only-dont-turn-30-one-more-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Because I only don’t turn 30 one more time."},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday day was my birthday, and it was amazing. Rather than any large productions, it was a day of thoughtful generosities.<\/p>\n

As midnight approached, Steve eagerly waited for it to officially be my birthday before he produced a gift. Simultaneously the most ridiculous and awesome gift ever, I got the world’s only internet connected bunny, a Nabaztag<\/a>! (Really, it is kind of crazy, so you should just click on the link.)<\/p>\n

\"Peru<\/a><\/p>\n

After promptly naming him “Peru”, I struggled for about an hour to introduce him to his new Internet-based home (turns out that Airports need some extra configuration<\/a> – why? No clue.), and then somehow let a couple more hours slip by teaching him to wake me up in the morning, play NPR, read Twitter tweets, and practice Tai-Chi. (You didn’t click that link, did you? You might want to now.)<\/p>\n

Minka is confused. “You better learn how to tell the weather”, Peru threatened at one point. Still my favorite effect has to be the twitter updates. I follow this emo-rockstar who tweets the most over the top thoughts you can imagine. The only thing better that reading a tweet such as “Murder by sunrise…” is hearing a white plastic bunny randomly say it in a British accent.<\/p>\n

Understandably, I was late to the office the next morning. Here coworkers casually took me out to lunch (Vijay will be out of the country when I move), and I was surprised with a LOL-homage when I got back to my desk.<\/p>\n

\"CAN<\/a><\/p>\n

Steve and I had made brownie bites the night before (waiting for midnight and a bunny, no doubt), and so I declared 2:30 PM “It’s my birthday so we are eating brownies” time, and invited everyone to my “corner cubicle” (yes, I have arrived).<\/p>\n

That night, I was blown away at a casual birthday happy hour to which everyone attended. It was an evening full of unexpected moments of kindness, such as this discovery by Kristina<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"Minka<\/a><\/p>\n

Friends came from all over – from the AAMC, to CCT, and all the random places in between. People kept asking me if I was “having a good day”, and I honestly did. Not because I felt like I was supposed to, not because it was any big day with big expectations, but because of a continuous stream of thoughtful moments from people who care. Thank you all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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