april fool's

i always give random sites out there who ask for my birthdate april 1. the advantage of that is that on a day i otherwise dislike [1], i get loads of birthday greetings from random auto-mailers.

[1] really, i don't actually care anymore, because i've either acquired enough of a threatening aura, or surround myself nowadays only with people who have "no sense of humour" a certain degree of maturity, so i haven't actually had to experience an april fool's prank in many years (i'd like to keep it that way, so don't get any ideas).

so, why is it that the moment i announce i'll be absent, i feel a flood of posts scrabbling inside my mind just fighting to get out? i wonder whether there is a mild sense of obligation normally (with which i tend to fight subconsciously), and once that's removed there is a bit of extra freedom.

tiptree awards

wild_irises makes the announcement here.