HAPPY HALF-BIRTHDAY TO ME: Today is my half-birthday, as I am now officially 25-and-a-half years old. I'm not sure if there are any adults anywhere on Earth who actually celebrate their half-birthdays; when I was growing up it was a gimmick in elementary school in order to make kids with summer birthdays not "feel bad" that their birthday never fell during the school year. Then again, since the school year lasts more than six months, some kids got to have both birthdays and half birthdays- and what if your birthday was December 30? That way you're always on vacation and never get sung "Happy Birthday" by the class. See, it's paradoxes like this that are the reason our educational system in this country is in such trouble.
Posted by Stephen Silver at January 28, 2004 01:00 AM