just as i was feeling despodent about ever receiving mail again - two packages arrived to restore my faith! one packed with newspapers - ah, how i have been hanging out for them! i'm saving them to read over a long lazy breakfast this weekend. and another one with movies - yessss! and best of all: letters. they're hard to write (and writing by hand! how out of practice i am), and by the time they're received they're out of date - but what little treasures they are.