Those of you reading this in an aggregator may have noticed a rogue post by the same name as this one. Having spent all weekend in a TEI workshop I marked up my Birthday Weekend post in TEI Lite and posted it in here. All appeared to work fine in preview until I made the post live. The amazing part (although maybe it shouldn’t be) was that the markup came through perfectly. It was the indentation and white space that choked. <sigh> So let’s try it again without all of the pretty indentation:
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<docAuthor>Mark Lindner</docAuthor>
<docDate value="2006-02-20">20 February 2006</docDate>
<p>I had a hectic Birthday Weekend but <date value="2006-02-20">today</date> was pretty nice. My wonderful friend <name type="personal">Cindy</name> made me an incredible cake. It was a bundt cake that was basically banana bread with nuts and chocolate chips and the top was somewhere between being drizzled with and being dunked in chocolate. She delivered it to my 9 AM class with plates, forks, etc. It was scrumptious! Tasty, filling and went well with coffee. What more could a boy ask for ? And although I actually had my camera with me, I didn’t think to take a picture of it. I shared with my class and had plenty to take upstairs to my co-workers afterwards.</p>
<p>I had a 90-minute massage from 1-2:30 and then headed back to work. I broadcast a class from 4:15-6:35. Then my friend <name type="personal">Emily</name> picked me up, ran me by the house for a moment, and then we headed for <name type="business">Crane Alley</name>. I had a really nice steak, baked sweet potato with butter and brown sugar, and green beans, 2 <name type="product">Guinness</name> and a pint of water. It and the company was heavenly! </p>
<p><abbr corresp="tei">TEI</abbr> workshop this weekend was pretty good. I do recommend it as an introduction to <abbr corresp="tei">TEI</abbr> and I second Richard’s recommendation of <name type="personal">Julia Flanders</name> and <name type="personal">Syd Bauman</name>. <mentioned>http://libland.blogspot.com/2006/02/aura-of-ownership.html</mentioned></p>
<p>I tried to go to <name type="personal">Eva</name>’s show in <name type="place">Danville</name> <date value="2006-02-18">Saturday</date> night but I could not find the place. I had a map from <name type="website">Google</name> and an address. I don’t know what happened. I’ve been just staying calm about it, but it was a massive let down. </p>
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It seems that I wrote down the address that I was provided for Eva’s gig. I’m not sure what went wrong; I guess my more spontaneous lifestyle will include such disasters of execution. I gave it a good shot and it didn’t work out. I just hope Eva isn’t mad at me, and wasn’t worried about me while she was performing.
Thank you Cindy for the wonderful and delicious cake! And thank you Em for dinner and conversation! I will certainly take Gardner and you up on the weekend dinner deal, too.
I currently have no more Birthday Month happenings planned, but I’ll probably head to the Esquire on Friday as another classmate is celebrating her birthday. In early March, Richard will be having another party during LEEP oncampus weekend, "this party is dedicated to all the fishes and friends of fishes." So maybe I have a couple more chances to bring up the fun quotient in this year’s instantiation of Birthday Month. And no, I really don’t feel any older than I normally do. That’s because I am already older than the vast majority of my peers and some of my professors and instructors. No good reason to dwell on that.
Update: I emailed Eva to apologize for missing the show and she felt really bad. It seems there was (at least) one little piece of info that I needed to know. The place has NO entrance from the street its address is on; only from some alley. Is there a parking lot in the alley? Oh well. I told Eva it was all good; I hadn’t and wasn’t going to get upset about it.
I may get to have dinner with Eva and Gina again on Monday. No broadcast of class since next weekend is LEEP oncampus, so I’ll be heading to Normal at some point in the afternoon Monday. Monday evening is our Mimesis discussion of Buddenbrooks. Still haven’t read a word… <sigh>.
I went to LeAnn’s birthday party at the Esquire last night. Beth’s having an Un-birthday Party at Crane Alley tonight. Why, oh why, can’t these children start partying in public before 9 PM?