I just meant that my schedule at the university hasn't been this full yet, nothing more. Interesting things are going to happen, though, albeit not the coming week, but the one after that, as I will be visiting one of our laboratories for the first time. I've had to procure myself a labcoat just for the occasion, since they are required for safety (couldn't find a really long one, though, and had to settle for one that reached just past the pelvis... but I figure that aesthetics aside, it's more practical like that. Lots of pockets, though. I do find it very funny that when I ordered it from the web-shop, I ordered XL, and the coat I got had a label with L sewn onto it, with a sticker reading XL just slapped on top of it. Curiously it fits well enough despite of this).

These birthdays are all in my immediate family (my father, my uncle, my aunt and me... and now my niece, too), so the main reasoning behind celebrating them at once is that the same guests would show up anyways and that this way we can share the expenses of one party rather than each have to pay for one of our own. Obviously we don't all have the same birthday, they're just grouped in the same month (except my father, whose birthday was September 30th, but close enough). Our actual birthdays are as such pretty normal days in most regards, which suits most of us fine - especially since there is a five out of seven chance every year that it isn't in a weekend - and we just celebrate that day much more relaxedly... A cake, maybe, some mandatory happy-birthdays, presents and usually a meal by that person's choice.
Eh, and I'm still slightly struggling with accepting that I'm turning twenty-five this year... a quarter of a century. It sounds like a lot. Feels like a lot. Logically is still quite young. Sometimes I'm pretty sure that I'm a lot older on the inside than I am on the outside.
And I'm rambling. Maybe a nice change of pace from the shockingly curt OOC posts I notice I have produced pretty consistently since the start of September. But I figure that should improve once I get used to things the way they are now.