Birthdays make me feel guilty

[dr4b]

I mean, I know I should post and say Happy Birthday to Jeliza. (Which I have infact just done, I suppose.) The thing is, I feel so guilty about forgetting everyone else's birthdays. Wait, that's a bad way to put it. I remember everyone's birthdays just fine (as many of you well know - it's my accursed number-photographic memory). It's just things like, knowing that someone's birthday is January 22 and actually being aware of the fact that it's January 22 doesn't quite coincide in my head. And I hate the idea of running scripts to help me with this sort of thing, because I'd have to remember to put all of my friends into some sort of file or database for it, and what sucks is when you sort of start losing touch with people and they are no longer people you'd just email to say Happy Birthday anyway, like they've moved out of town, graduated, switched email and not told you the new one, etc. I have a ton of friends with birthdays this week actually. Jeliza's is today, and Anu's is tomorrow, and Sheena is also tomorrow, and my friend Debbie Seltzer from high school, who I haven't talked to in 5-6 years, but who got married in October, and then Ratha's birthday is the 25th, and Lawrence, and Jo Flasher, and Mike Schuresko, and Timmy Canfield, and... then go to the 26th and you have Andrew, and Eli's brother Josh, and... while we're at it LJ has just informed me that Carolee's birthday is next week, as is Jarrett's. Ugh, and Erich's birthday is around now too (Jan 29?) but I don't even have a current email address for him to say hi and stuff anyway. Suck.

You know, I wonder if I actually celebrate the birthdays of anywhere near as many people as I invite to my birthday parties. I guess a lot of them don't have big parties, or have birthdays at inopportune times, and such. I dunno.