So, it is party time again, folks!

[wiseheart]

Each year this time, we launch my virtual birthday party, which starts on October 1 and ends on October 9 at midnight, sharp. The goals of the party are to post as many comments and collapse as many threads as possible, on as many new pages as we can. It is always great fun, as you can see if you check out the similar entries of the last few years.

This year, I'll also throw the real party at mid-time - and post the recipes of all the food that will be there for you, so that you can all participate if you want to. Virtual food has no calories.

Fandom-related discussions are as welcome as the ones about coffee or chocolate (just to name a few favourites from previous years), and, of course, pictures and recipes of birthday cakes. ;)

So, drop by, tell your story, post your pics or silly poems, ask questions you always wanted to ask and have a good time!

Soledad, in excited expectation




Oh, and by the way, to provide birthday gifts hobbit-style, I've got a revived story and a Kansas 2 update for you.

Enjoy!

Comments

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

This party is really going! Page 7 with 1172 (as of writing this) comments. Can we make it to 1200 before wiseheart's midnight?

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

1187 now.... I think we can!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

We just have!

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

Indeed, we did! \o/

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

And we did it! Virtual coffee and chocolate all around, I think!

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I'll bring the chocolate! Now at 1221 -- what a lovely number! :-)

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

*shares coffee and hot chocolate* And the total is still going up!

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

And up! ;-)

[sammydragoncat]

now at 1208!

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I am perpetually amazed at our prolixity!

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

So many comments, so many conversations \o/

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

It is a shame it has to come to an end, but I think Mr EA would quite like to see me in the evenings again...

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

What a lovely word! I hadn't come across that before -- thank you for introducing me!

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Walking dictionary to the gentry :)

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

Thank you for your service!

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

:) We have upstairs & downstairs dictionaries in this house.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

Now that I have an upstairs and a downstairs, I do too! Though my upstairs dictionary isn't as good as my downstairs one...

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

We have, I think, four big paper English-only dictionaries, plus the complete OED on CD-ROM, but all but the downstairs dictionary live in the upstairs offices.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

Most of my books live in my living room. I think I own three different English-only dictionaries, one of which is upstairs and one in my office at work. I have three Swedish only dictionaries, one of which is upstairs, with the other two downstairs, on the dictionaries shelf, with my German only dictionary and the dual language ones. (Just in case you hadn't noticed: I am quite fond of dictionaries!)

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Me too! I have a dictionaries shelf upstairs in my office, with the big dual-language ones (French, German, Spanish), my upstairs Chambers & the little Oxford, the OED disk, a couple of different thesauri, plus my encyclopaedias &c. Mr EA has a Collins dictionary in his office next door, too, but I don't rate that one.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I grew up with a Concise Oxford Dictionary as the arbitrator of the English language, that Mum had brought over from England. I was very pleased to find a later edition, in a book shop in Sweden so that I could have my own copy when I moved away to university. I keep thinking of getting a subscription to the on-line OED, but have never got as far as finding out how much it would cost... Plus there is something much more satisfactory about looking things up in a physical book!

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

In terms of vernacular English usage, Chambers is arguably better, and it is certainly more precise for scientific usage -- I like having the two definitions side by side.

The online OED is really fantastic if you are interested in etymology, date of first use or history of different meanings -- are you a member of a local public library? I don't know whether it extends to NI, but in England one can get access to the online OED via a library card login.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

espresso_addict has an amazing vocabulary!

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

In English! I'm perpetually amazed at the extent of your vocabulary in your third language!

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

She does indeed!