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(Cake, 09/2010)
Tonight (last night) was the eve of my belated birthday celebrations for the first quarter century.
The total number of guests upon arrival, were at best skewed in predictions. Originally, the reservations of table tallying were based on Facebook’s Events popularity metrics: determining between yes or no, and maybe. Other factors included a change of venue, relocation from a breezy pub downtown to a modern, delicious thai cuisine venue.
Weather-wise was also temperamental, a late September evenin’ includes unexpected floods of rains, whispering breezes that dance crunchy leaves into submission, and nipping frost that advents the arrival of a summer’s garden harvest. Summertime in the little city of Vancouver is never everlasting.
Guests included an teacher’s assistant from university classes, friends befriended from conferences and social media meetups, old highschool classmates, and coworkers from the summertime. A mix and medley of conflicting, and harmonious personalities bubbled up within conversations.
Afterwards, a spicy dinner, tantalizing appetizers, and too many alcoholic drinks for counting, we wandered the citystreets at night, crowds of partygoers and lampposts flickering in tune with drunks and ambivalent, adrenaline-laced strangers greeting each other with joviality and comradeship, no doubt as a result from the recent BC Lions football game at the BC Place stadium.
Greatly reduced in numbers, we wandered away to an Mexican restaurant and spent the last few minutes before midnight on tortilla chips and salsa dancing rollicking medley’s. By then, it was very, very tiring to walk the autumn streets again, so we separated onto different commutes and land-bound transports, disappearing essentially, into the swallowed up darkness of midnight.
I don’t feel very confident about organizing these birthday parties, thrice in succession has had mixed reviews, with attendees becoming acquainted with one another. However, I’m very, very lucky to have such a diverse, variety of people who care about me and are happy to share this evening-day together.