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which_chickI think I need to have a word with my local post office. See, many days there is nothing at all in the mail for me. Some days there is mail, but it's a phone bill or a credit card bill or the electric bill. (I don't have any other monthly bills.) Some days I get a check or a bank statement and those are better than bills. But surprise mail, exciting mail, mail that I actually want -- that I don't get every day or even every time I get mail. That shit is few and far between, but today I got three pieces of good mail.
I got a package from Australia with all kinds of jazzy, stylin' Australian stamps on it. I'll have to take a picture of them because they're so pretty. Now, I don't do anything dorky like collect stamps because I'm busy with my non-dorktastic hobbies (sarcasm alert), but if I did collect stamps, I would be clipping these out to save 'em. They're very pretty. The package from Australia contained TWO (2) CDs by the jazz-funk band named Goose that wanted to use one of my pictures for their CD artwork. One of the CDs they sent is the one with my picture on it and they did, indeed credit me by name inside. Ain't THAT damn cool? (The CDs also do not suck. I haven't gotten through both of them yet on the grounds that one does not eat the entire cake in one sitting, but they don't suck. They're kind of catchy.)
I also got a package from amazon.com because I ordered a bunch of stuff from them the other day and they've been shipping stuff as and when it is ready to ship. This was a movie, Ringu, kind of a Japanese horror flick. They remade it here in the states as The Ring, iirc. Unfortunately, like a dork, I left it at the office (amazon.com ships to my office, not to my PO Box) so I can't watch it tonight.
The third piece of enjoyable mail was a copy of Howl's Moving Castle (the book) from my mother, who sent it as supplemental material so's I can better understand the Miyazaki flick of the same name, which I will not see until it hits DVD because I am not driving two hours to see it dubbed in a theater.
Honestly, this is too much enjoyable mail for one day's haul, and that's why I have to talk to the post office. They need to spread this stuff out more, so that I get several days worth of good mail instead of one day with an embarrassment of riches.
I got a package from Australia with all kinds of jazzy, stylin' Australian stamps on it. I'll have to take a picture of them because they're so pretty. Now, I don't do anything dorky like collect stamps because I'm busy with my non-dorktastic hobbies (sarcasm alert), but if I did collect stamps, I would be clipping these out to save 'em. They're very pretty. The package from Australia contained TWO (2) CDs by the jazz-funk band named Goose that wanted to use one of my pictures for their CD artwork. One of the CDs they sent is the one with my picture on it and they did, indeed credit me by name inside. Ain't THAT damn cool? (The CDs also do not suck. I haven't gotten through both of them yet on the grounds that one does not eat the entire cake in one sitting, but they don't suck. They're kind of catchy.)
I also got a package from amazon.com because I ordered a bunch of stuff from them the other day and they've been shipping stuff as and when it is ready to ship. This was a movie, Ringu, kind of a Japanese horror flick. They remade it here in the states as The Ring, iirc. Unfortunately, like a dork, I left it at the office (amazon.com ships to my office, not to my PO Box) so I can't watch it tonight.
The third piece of enjoyable mail was a copy of Howl's Moving Castle (the book) from my mother, who sent it as supplemental material so's I can better understand the Miyazaki flick of the same name, which I will not see until it hits DVD because I am not driving two hours to see it dubbed in a theater.
Honestly, this is too much enjoyable mail for one day's haul, and that's why I have to talk to the post office. They need to spread this stuff out more, so that I get several days worth of good mail instead of one day with an embarrassment of riches.
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Date: 2005-08-09 12:19 am (UTC)We sent you a postcard! With a horse on it even!
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Date: 2005-08-11 03:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-11 09:59 am (UTC)Miyazaki guys aren't all hopeless. The dragon boy in Spirited Away was quite the hottie, if a bit on the young side. (Reminded me of Akira from HnG. I cannot loot at anyone in one of those damn bobs without thinking of Akira these days. Huzzah for imprinting.) At least in the book, Howl is "old" -- in his early twenties -- so you should have no qualms about eyeballing him.