i am making it a goal to update the poetry index on the site. i’ve met a few people over the past week who like (and like to write) themselves, and although my older work is strong enough to stand on its own, having recent work readily available is quite desirable. making visitors sift through hundreds of journal entries looking for stuff isn’t exactly ‘user friendly’.
on another note; i got a certain satisfaction yesterday while snail-mailing payment for an ebay auction. not because i was removing money from my account, but because of the envelope in which it was submitted. i’ll tell you why:
once upon a time, after being laid off from a job, the offending employer mailed an ‘exit interview’ along with a SASE; which triggered two distinct thoughts upon receipt of the materials. first, how tacky was it to ask a favour of someone from whom you’ve just abruptly stolen their livelihood? and if the information this interview intended to garnish was of any value, why didn’t they conduct it at the time of termination? second, i can have a pretty ruthless tongue when i speak through my fingertips, so in the best interests of burning as few bridges as possible, i found it more valuable to hold still my opinions; and recycle the materials. the page(s) of the interview used as scrap paper–the empty reverse sides to detail driving directions to job interviews. the postage-paid envelope remedied of its black, laser-etched addresses with simple white adhesive labels, now suitable to be reused to mail an ebay payment. a certain element of justice was felt in this.
actually, now that i think about it, that envelope had the same destination listed for both the addressee and the return address. what does the postal service do in the event of insufficient postage or misdirected mail with an envelope marked as such? it wouldn’t be a fair loophole for me to be able to write a letter to bill gates out in seattle, and instead of chipping in the 37 cents, to cheap-out and list him as both the sender and recipient, but omit the stamp. i would think they would deliver it as a sort of c.o.d. and ask the addressee to pay the remaining postage due in order to receive that parcel. anyone have an insight to this? let me know if you do.
look at that, a simple 2 sentence entry became this enlarged gland on the throat of my journal. oh well, at least it’s of sound content. and it took long enough to type that now i need to clip my fingernails.