It's my birthday today! :) Was an interesting start, my roommate snored the whole night so I didn't sleep much. Despite that I am wide-awake and happy now! I just got an e-mail from my younger cousin wishing me a happy birthday, which consisted of telling me that I'm getting really old. I hardly consider my early 20's as being old, but I guess it looks like that to a 14 year old. Speaking of which, I can't believe she's 14! I remember holding her as a baby! Now THAT does make me feel old... but enough about getting older. My friends and I are going to the Cheesecake Factory in Boston tonight, and apparently somewhere else as well, but they're not telling me. I don't know whether to be excited or scared. I think I will end on a quote,

Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.

• Menachem Mendel Schneerson