002 | text | post-event, pre-Sanguis cycle

[asaqueenshould]

A shorter-term question is bothering me this time, and it's one that may affect others.

As far as I can compare the local calendar to the one I'm familiar with at home, my birthday is coming up soon. On the other hand, when I arrived here, I was expecting my birthday to be a good five months off.

Should I mark it now, or wait another three months? I can't decide which would be easier to remember. How are others grappling with it?

Comments

[heptagram]

I haven't thought about my birthdays in a short eternity.

My suggestion is to just have it whenever you and whoever you wish to celebrate with would like, for the time being. It doesn't seem we've an agreed-upon parallel between time from our homelands and time here. Then again, I suppose that's difficult due to many of us coming from different places or even different times from the same world.

[asaqueenshould]

I rather doubt we're going to find any sort of consensus on that front, when there are so many different worlds to choose from. I was mostly wondering how to handle it for myself, and whether anyone else had had to grapple with it.

[heptagram]

I've had at least a few moments of still thinking about what day it would be if I were still on my home world, but I don't know if that counts because it doesn't involve much scheduling.

[asaqueenshould]

It isn't quite the same, but this kind of comparison is possibly just part of life, in this sort of situation.

[heptagram]

Like time zones but on a larger scale, and the travel is less voluntary.

[asaqueenshould]

Not entirely like. This experience had far less in terms of jet lag. But it's still an apt comparison.

[heptagram]

True. We acclimated very rapidly. I wonder why, but I may be thinking of this kind of literally.