yea, so it's been about two weeks since then, but i have to say that this year i definitely had the best birthday ever..my friends are amazing..haha i think we literally celebrated it for like 4 days (hooray for birthdays that are close to weekends)...so first off, chen made this terrific apple cheesecake and brought it over (along with the rest of conner 3) at midnight on wednesday/thursday..then the typical conner 3 celebratory events - and even mavis came over!!!..and then on thursday (the actual day) during MITSO rehearsal, someone (i'm guessing one of the violins although i'm not sure who) somehow managed to get all the MITSO strings to play happy birthday in rehearsal right after the break..that was definitely the best part of the day - i don't think anyone realizes how much that meant to me - it's hard to explain to anyone how much MITSO means to me, even though i don't even know half the people in MITSO (really, i don't even know most of the strings all that well)..but it just does...but yea, that was AWESOME..we were tuning up after the break, and all of a sudden i see and albert was standing in the front waving his hands around like we were about to play something - i was really confused and kept asking people what was going on but everyone was like "*shrug*"...and then they all bust out playing "happy birthday"...seriously, i can't even describe how happy i was...if you're in MITSO and you're reading this - THANK YOU SO FREAKING MUCH

and then friday night we (conner 3 people) went out to eat at Dali's, which is a spanish TAPAS bar! organized once again by chen (chen, you're the BEST!)..great meal, definitely worth it, and at the end they arranged for the restaurant to sing happy birthday once again...gosh i really love conner 3 people...i don't know what i'll do next year when all the 07's graduate...

saturday night - the ultimate final party...hahaha we actually WATCHED the "puppetry of the penis" dvd that spike and nicola bought...i felt bad for the guys, they were literally wincing in pain the entire time that dvd was playing...lol that was such a long night cuz i actually didn't pass out and stayed awake the entire time...highlights of the night included: 5 girls on spike's bed at one time and he didn't appreciate it! (hehe); playing pool with simon/gemma/mike/carmen the security guard; what i have to do if any of them shot in the ball with their left hand..which simon did...haha dammmit...ahh and so much more, but i'm way too tired right now to write too much more..this is a really disjoined point btw, if you haven't noticed

but yea. i just wanted to write this point because i really did have the best birthday of my life, and wanted to write it down to look back on and remember all of it later on =)