Hey internet! Today is my 19th birthday.

Things wot have happened already in the 24 hours which mark the transition from one Ella-year to another:

• K, the amazing boyfriend, has given me Meir Shalev's book, Mostly About Love, with a beautiful dedication and a letter attached. ♥
  
  
• His mother has given me a scarf!
  
  
• I have finished writing my ( Read more... )

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I should be doing three different kinds of homework right now, so obviously I'm writing an LJ entry. A link roundup of sorts.

LITTLE PEOPLE: AN ALPHABET, by T.W.H. Crosland. Last night I somehow got sucked into compulsively browsing Project Gutenberg again (also stumbling upon this treasure by Richmal Crompton, after reading Pratchett's Only You ( Read more... )

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!
(And to Jesus, and my amazing History of Art teacher Zohar, for that matter. \o/)

From now on I am old enough to:

• Vote.
  
• Buy alcohol.
  
• Participate in Yuletide. (*g*)
  
• Have sex with whoever I want.
  
• Represent myself in court.
  
• Enlist to the army.
  
• View/make porn.
  
• Change all my personal information.
  
• Not lie about my age. (:D ( Read more... )

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HAPPY JEW YEAR, HEATHENS.

That's right, today is Rosh ha'Shana-the Jewish New Year! I'm just coming from a big family dinner full of fish and chicken and soup and quiche and a thousand, thousand salads. I'm not even kidding. Every relative brought some kind of vegetable homage; I think our combined forces buckled the agricultural market. Surely ( Read more... )

MY SISTER IS GETTING MARRIED TODAY.

Just wanted to get that out there before I dash off to the hair-curling nose-powdering leg-waxing shenanigans of this morning. Will quite possibly, in fact, emerge a completely different person, like that one episode in Doctor Who.

And yet. Not enough smilies in the world. ♥

LISTEN UP DAWGS


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Speaking of birthdays, happy 2004th, 17th, and 50-something-th to Jesus, myself, and my History of Art teacher, respectively. \o/ Since it would be shameful beyond description to spend my birthday poring over Math books, I have decided to take a day off and spend the next 24 hours online. Man, it's good to be back, even for a short while. ♥ What ho ( Read more... )