# April 11th is My Birthday

What should I do with this site?

It’s my birthday on the 11th of April. I shall be twenty-six. I was
hoping to hold a party where we’d set off exploding devices from
[Backyard
Ballistics](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1556523750), but it
doesn’t look like that’s going to happen anymore.

I learned today that someone called
[Asparagirl](http://www.asparagirl.com/) was born on the same day (in
1979). So is [Jack Saturn](http://saturn.org/) (in 1977). I know of two
others. One is a girl I had a crush on in primary school called Shannon
Powell. I did a web search for her a while back and found [Mr Shannon
Powell](http://www.prisonpenpals.org/98a1139.html), who, as the URL
suggests, is an inmate incarcerated in NY wanting a pen pal. He
certainly sounds interesting: “Also willing to accept the challenge of
any Lesbian by restoring her faith in A-REAL-MAN, (in all seriousness
and no disrespect intended).” The other is a girl I met at The Press
Club in Brisbane. This was soon after my birthday. She’d mentioned that
her birthday was the week before, and so I asked her when, and she said
the eleventh. It occurred to me that mentioning the coincidence would
make for a particularly unclassy and unsubtle pickup line, but since I
wasn’t particularly interested in her (and, as it happens, I was telling
the truth!) I went ahead. I think I’ve some Polaroids of her, but I
can’t at all remember her name.

My friend Chris has her birthday on the 12th, as does David Letterman. I
think it’s Claire Danes’s as well. [Update: And
[Rebekah’s](http://rebekah.org/) too!]

(I shall try to be more interesting in future.)