what the eff?!

* seems my mail is, once again, going missing. my mother called me to ask whether i’d received the card she sent me nearly two weeks ago. i have not. she mailed one to trix and one to me on the same day at the same mailbox – YB received hers two days later, mine is still M.I.A. thankfully, i’ve kept a log of all the emails and (unreturned) phone calls i’ve made to canada post so, if i have to launch another complaint, i’ll be doing so to the ombudsman with a detailed account of this ongoing mail-delivery mess.

* yesterday, i discovered that my email has also been unreliable. i hadn’t yet received a screening notice for a film that’s being released next friday, so i emailed the publicist to find out if one had been sent out... and it HAD. “you were sent one because you’re on a group list,” said the publicist. it would have been sent about a week ago, yet nothing ever arrived.

* both of the above make me wonder how much mail i’m actually missing, since i only find out about the stray items when someone else tells me they sent something and i realize i never received it. what about the ones i don’t know about?

* mercury doesn’t go retrograde until next friday, so this all somewhat premature.

* i’ve had on-and-off intestinal distress over the past week and a half or so. it got to the point where i went on a 24-hour clear-liquid-only diet in the hopes of getting everything to untwist and settle down. it sort of worked, but i’ve now started taking lactobacillus capsules twice a day and having a cup of hot tea after larger meals to help with digestion. fingers crossed.

* i really can’t believe it’s december 4th, and that there’s less than a month left to 2010.