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As of 8:10 this morning, I am now 21, which is just 31 flavors of creepy. I can now drink, rent a car, gamble, and buy a prostitute in Nevada. Though Dan Radcliffe put it best: “It’s a big deal turning 16 in England. You can have sex and play the lottery. I couldn’t wait to play the lottery!”

Massive love to CHUNGY, who called me from England with the last 80p on her phone card to wish me a Happy Birthday, to MAH ROOMIES (well, roomie and ex-roomies), who left a lovely card for me to find Monday night, to Aaron, Renata, Jume, et all, who gave me birthday comment love. Also, to the Sci-Fi Channel for their Firefly mini-marathon (in my honor, of course), and JJ Abrams and Rob Thomas for giving me the gifts of new episodes of Lost and Veronica Mars. Unfortunately, I will be on an airplane when they air. Tomorrow, I will give thanks for BitTorrent!

Holy cow! Speaking of Wonderfalls, it’s only $19.97 on Amazon right now! That’s more than half off! If you haven’t seen it yet, now is the perfect time to buy it and check it out. Or if you already own it, buy another set and give it as a gift, or use it to convert the masses!

SCORE! UK TV channel ITV4 has picked up The Inside, meaning that we’ll finally be able to see those unaired episodes! Stupid Fox has predictably chosen not to release the half-season on DVD, as Tim Minear’s last project, Wonderfalls, was only the top rated DVD on Amazon for a time, and the previous project, Firefly, only sold jaw-dropping numbers of DVD sets and amassed a fan following great enough to fuel a motion picture. What possible benefit could there be to releasing The Inside on DVD?

Oh! I forgot to mention that I ran into Professor Decherney, who taught my Copyright class last semester, and he told me that my final paper on Fan Art motivated him to devote an entire lecture on the subject in this year’s classes. Go me!

Things that are not cool: On the day your early class is cancelled, so that you don’t have class until noon, someone calls your cell phone with a wrong number at 6AM.

I can’t believe I’m turning 21 this Wednesday. That just isn’t right.

(Though I will use this opportunity to pimp my Amazon wishlist. Just because I’m turning 21 doesn’t mean I have to ignore my inner 6-year-old.)