why hello....

it is monday evening. i'm ready to blog. blogging comes on in waves and i've been feeling it gather all day. the first thing i should say is that i had a wonderful day today because i got packages. i have received more mail here today than i did all last year in charlottesville, just about. i got 5 packages. it was a pre-birthday celebration. i am about to be a quarter century old and therefore i think i do deserve the kind of party that arrived to my school mailbox today. first, from T and Michael i got a one hundred calorie pack of goldfish crackers flattened and several packs of teacher stickers. it was a satisfying recall to the reliable kindness of T's special occasion boxes, and gold fish crums are a good after school snack. by my mama i was well taken care of... i received 3 packages, very exciting because i don't know when i have ever received a package from my mom - it is not our usual way. each contained one plastic thing of dentine gum, which would have cured my goldfish breath, - but with a closer look i saw that they contained white pills for treating 'severe infection' as the note in package three told. how sweetly they were packed, with such care, to ensure they arrived to me flat. but dave was not satisfied with flat. i know he has been thinking for at least 3 weeks about how to get around that flat rule and he did succeed remarkably when he found a 3d picture with attached 3d goggles for me to look into. i got that today, a surprise, and 20 sixth graders were also able to enjoy it. he also sent new music that sounds much like sufjan stevens and thus makes me very happy and quite sappily relaxed. lastly i did open one package to find country songs from the 1980s. the reason for this is that dave knows them and likes them and i just like them but don't know them and we both always figure that we should be able to sing to them loudly together while doing random other things. in any case, this was a big part of my good day and there has been no part bad.