Sunday, 07 September 2008
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see related25.
25 is a square number, being 5² = 5 × 5.
25 is the smallest square that is also a sum of two squares: 25 = 3² + 4².
25 is a centered octagonal number and an automorphic number.
25 is the smallest base 10 Friedman number as it can be expressed by its own numbers: 5².
11:25 is a magic number. I have no idea what that means either.
25 is how old I turned at noon Friday.
Next weekend, I'm moving to Chicago's Ukrainian Village, and, while spending much of my birthday weekend packing, I ran across a stack of old diaries I kept as a little girl with flowers and teddy bears on their covers and gold locks and red ribbons holding them closed. The oldest begins Tuesday, Dec. 26, 1989. I would have been 6 years old and in kindergarten then.
I tried to look up how I celebrated my 7th birthday, but unfortunately I only journaled through May, with an epilogue in October -- I kid you not -- to update my future readers on the first grade. I did, however, write about my half-birthday on March 5, 1990. Because as we all know, 6 1/2 is a huge milestone in a young girl's life.
With a shaky, kindergarten grasp of capitalization and punctuation, I wrote:It WAS MY 1/2 BrithDAY It WAS PUlASKi DAY I HAD NO SchOOL it RAND & SnOWD. Um - Um No More HAPPY 1/2 BrithDAY ThAts All.
In other entries I wrote about how I got a haircut with a fluff and my little sister Annie got a haircut and Dad got The Land Before Time. I listed all the books my dad read with me as bedtime stories: books about Louis Pasteur, Elizabeth Blackwell and Louisa May Alcott. Books with titles like Babe Ruth: Home Run Hero and Amelia Earhart: Adventure in the Sky. All biographies. I watched The Wizard of OZ -- at the end of it, they showed how they made it -- and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade -- my favorite part was when the dad was shooting at an airplane at the bad guys and he shot the tail off the airplane and he told Indiana Jones that the bad guys did it. I counted down the days to something evidently monumental called "the 100s Party" at school. I played in the deep deep deep deep deep snow, and, boy, was there lots.
I ended every entry with "That's all."
Sometimes, I even illustrated my adventures:
This stuff is GOLD!
But my favorite entry of all is dated Friday, Jan. 26, 1990:iT WAS DANAS PATTY & At SchOOL JoN SeeMeD TO LiKe Me. Oh AND DiD You NoW DANA iS 7? & I HearD JoN TlAKiNg ABout Me To ALL The BoYS. THATS ALL.
That pretty much sounds like how I've summed up every party I've ever attended ever. Isn't it weird how much of you is already you from such an early age? Some things, whether you are 6 or 25, really do never change.
That's all.
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Fantastic journal/diary entries!
I hope you enjoyed your birthday. :)
I have a friend who just moved to the same area you are moving to. I hope you enjoy it.
My mom recently showed me all these "writings" of mine from first and second grade, they were equally deep with intricate plot lines and well developed characters. For instance, the short story titled "MARIO SAVED THE PRINCESS"-
"one upon a time bowser took the princess so mario saved her the end"
Printed on ancient dot matrix 1980's faded computer paper.
I should compile them all in to a book, "Mario saved the princess and other abridged plot lines of Nintendo games." Make way, New York Times Bestseller list!
@Eli - Remember when Bowser used to be King Koopa? And I feel like the Princess has had several names, as well.
My mom once dug up a story I'd written and illustrated in grade school. It was several pages long, and the plot eerily resembled Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," which later became one of my favorite literary works in high school. Apparently I made HUGE literary strides in a few, short years there.
Probably a good thing because I have not even started it yet. You'll have to tell me how it is because it might very well wait until winter break!
linked over from the 'squeaky' comment--but i remember loving that smile years ago... HBD dear...
We should never have forsaken half birthdays.
Ukrainian village is wonderful. I saw Over the Rhine play on a street corner not far from that neighborhood four years ago, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and I still called Evanston home.
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