Today is the birthday of my (sort of) older sister. This reminds me of a little singing hamster the my 6th-8th grade teacher used to inflict on the kids whose birthday it was. I never actually had it on my birthday, which was about the biggest disappointment of my life. Every year on my birthday I sat with bated breath during morning announcements that Sid would get up and tell everyone that it was my birthday and therefore I should get the hamster. She never would. I believe at the last year I was there the hamster had broken down so now Sid was making the kids wear fake animals heads instead. Guess who didn't get the animal head on her birthday? That's right, me! It clearly scarred me for life. I will survive but still, it's the little bizarre things in life you remember.
Ciao,
Fenia