Happy Birthday to me... Happy Birthday to me...

Kind of torn about how to feel about today being my birthday. A lot of things have changed since I was born, though. 25 years is both too short and too long a time to be around...
(I was listening to this NPR story about the use of 'educational' filmstrips in the classroom. Damn, those recordings take me back. They were using those in my school district until the end of the 1980s!)

I'd like people to know about my birthday but don't want to toot my own horn about it. Doing that always seems to come across as expecting people to react in paroxysms of awkward congratulations. --Definitely not what I want.

In a perfect world, this kind of thing would somehow be more genuine, though I have no idea how it would work....

I guess I'm just being wistful... and rambling. Well, I'm a quarter of a century old and getting older, so tough! There's a lot more rambling to come.