27

Well, as of yesterday, I am 27. First year of my late twenties (21, 22, 23 are early twenties, 24, 25, 26 are mid twenties, 27, 28, 29 are my late twenties, with the rounded 20 just being what it is). Still the youngest you can be while in your late twenties, though!

I don't know if I really feel like celebrating my twenty-sixth year of life. During this year I moved, I changed roommates, I left Facile, I did another round of Summer Program, arguably the most successful, and I got past my one year anniversary working with two of my contracts. It wasn't really a bunk year, there were some successes, but there was a lot of struggle.

I remember last year on my birthday, I had to be in Kitchener for work but I arranged so I had nothing going on on that day specifically. Kinda tried to avoid people. One of my old roommates made some tickets that were good for a homemade meal of my choosing and stuff like that. Never used those. Should maybe see if they're still good, haha.

Went to a Tim Horton's and there were a couple of elderly women having an existential chat about the concept of mortality. Felt applicable to my own contemplation of the passage of time that day. Had a chat with a coworker about a fairly intense topic, didn't mention my birthday, she found out later through Facebook and said she'd've sung me Happy Birthday if she'd known.

This year I'm in Guelph, actually took a few days off. First time in Guelph since the Summer Program ended.

Got 67 Facebook birthday messages this year, 3 emails, and 4 texts.

You remember how I said my luck was sided against me before the start of the summer, and then it went in my favour for the summer? Then, I knew my charmed season was over when that flood hit. But I don't really know what my luck is looking like right now. My hot water heater got knocked out, but then when I called to ask for it fixed, it turns out there was going to be an inspector later that week so my landlord was eager to fix it as soon as possible. Last Monday, I lost my phone, but yesterday it was found and returned to me.

It's so satisfying to have a shower after you've been living without hot water.