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Cimorene ([personal profile] cimorene) wrote2007-01-23 11:59 pm
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crack packages

got a package from my parents today which was nearly devoid of crack in the contents. all the crack was saved for the method: a big m-bag like four times the size of the last one they sent me full of books. on the surface this is good. i love books. i miss my personal collection desperately.

the only bad thing was that the m-bag weighed 37 pounds, or 17 kilos. it was an extremely awkward and heavy package, and we don't have a car. it was snowing like crazy this afternoon and wax was carrying this bag like a demented santa and now has lots of little bruises on her shoulder. thank god she was there, though. the parcel notice from the post office made no mention of size. i could never have carried it five blocks. (at least not all in one day.)

there was a tiny bit of crack in the contents, though. they sent me two kids' books by bruce coville belonging to two separate series, but none of the sequels to either (and apparently selected at random. they didn't send me the autographed ones); a non-fiction book involving, uh, some... geologist's road trip and apparently some philosophising about plate tectonics (obviously my dad's1); one of asimov's foundation novels, but not the first one; the last 2/3, but not the first, of a trilogy2; and their copy of good omens (which they've probably forgotten isn't mine). also, an intermediate japanese textbook, which is to say, significantly above my level (although it must belong to me. when people know you're into japan you tend to accumulate things like that, and i had a reputation for that the entire time i was a teenybopper).

that wasn't the entire contents, of course. opening all the boxes made me rather giddy and some3 of the books had to be cuddled and stroked.


1. he's a geologist.
2. the great alta saga by jane yolen; white jenna and the one-armed queen but not sister light, sister dark.
3. three more of cj cherryh's foreigner universe, though not including the newest one.

[identity profile] perhael.livejournal.com 2007-01-23 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
cimmy y u never online anymore :(

and did you get my package yet?

[identity profile] cimness.livejournal.com 2007-01-24 10:51 am (UTC)(link)
i seem to be very busy with school and homework and am having a hard time getting enough sleep and ... actually i'm not keeping up with laundry and dishes at all. so basically i'm just too depressed at this precise time of year to cope with my occupational stresses. :( i miss my best friends but the time that i usually spend talking i'm now spending on homework because i can't seem to get it done in other times. but i did get your package! OMG LOVE AND AHHAHAHAHAH. there was so much shouting with laughter that wax became alarmed. also those sweet chili pepper doritos are to DIE for.

[identity profile] perhael.livejournal.com 2007-01-24 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
:( :( :( :( :( :( @homework.

I miss you lots. I'm glad the package had its desired effect, I must confess I laughed way too hard while I was making it, too. Especially when I was pulling those random quotes and images of doves off the internets. ♥

[identity profile] cimness.livejournal.com 2007-01-24 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
.,madsnv.klaƶ THE WEDDING BELLS AT THE TOP

*spasms of laughter*