I just got the most amazing box in the mail. Well the box itself was a pretty ordinary USPS Priority Mail box, the contents however. Ginger Cookies (some lemon filled), and chunks of jeans for that quilt I'll get to someday, The Guns of Navarrone and When Eight Bells Toll, and three mix cds, and a new knife, and other tokens of affection that can ride around in my pocket. I am so totally happy and excited.

I don't know how many of you all who read this now know this, but for years I carried in my pocket a green die, a ball bearing, and a bent quarter. Each given to me by someone. I stopped carrying them after grad school, but for better than 10 years they were never not in my pockets.