I am 30 Today

I don't feel much different. A little tired since my parents woke me up with a 5 a.m. birthday phone call, but otherwise the same. Not that I was expecting any big changes–the 30=old thing is definitely a myth!
I think people get bummed out about their lives on big bdays because they reflect on their lives and are disappointed with their currents places. I don't use more or less arbitrary markers/days to do that (I do that all the time!) and besides, I'm pretty thrilled with life at the moment. Thirty will definitely be an interesting year and I'm totally up to the challenge! (More on that in about two weeks.)

Got back from another Barcelona trip yesterday. Just kind of chilled. We went to the zoo (pix below), walked around, shopped, and saw the naked old man with the tattooed butt and the pierced penis (again). Had an apartment near (in?) the Born area, so got to check that out–very cool, would stay there again (arty, fewer tourists).

Have a friend visiting and she's still sleeping, so I'm going to wrap up because I'm worried my typing might wake her.

Here are some zoo pictures.

This one's out of focus, but I like it because the male tortoise is clearly putting a lot of effort into his mating.




These chimps would clap and raise their hands so people would throw them food (prohibited). It was amazinng to see that they'd picked this skill up, but it was also totally depressing.




This is some cute deer/antelope thing.



And here's some really ridiculous hair we saw.



These aren't from the zoo, just a funny butcher's display.