Hoping for a chance to wish a happy birthday to your favorite numeraled reporter? Have we got good news for you today, then. The Jennifer 8. Lee 30th-birthday extravaganza will be making a four-stop U.S. tour. We hear from people fortunate enough to be invited that select friends, members of the Harvard-alumni Yahoo listserv, Times colleagues, man-daters, and Amandra Tree recently received a real, old-fashioned, paper invite on card stock, bearing on its front the image of a Chinese food container, chop sticks, and a fortune cookie and on the back this text:

Save the date! The 2006 Four City Dim Sum Tour.

Come celebrate Jenny Lee's 30th birthday!

Take your pick of the following get togethers

March 4 Boston
March 11 New York City
March 18 San Francisco
March 25 Washington DC

And here we are, with merely a one-city birthday party. We feel so gauche.

Earlier: Gawker's coverage of Jennifer 8. Lee