Going Postal

[kyrasantae]

I'm holding off on the Final FAILCLASS post until I receive my grade for the course. That way, it'll truly be the last word on it (that's why it's called "Final"?). Here's what you can be looking forward to reading about:
* ReflectionResearch essays
* Kris is not amused!
* Staring contest: Me versus the exam

I mean, I honestly don't know how many people and who even reads this blog. Does anyone even care? LJ rolled out a stats feature today, but I haven't figured out what all of the numbers mean. The numbers seem bigger than I would have expected them to be.



I don't know what's going on with the postal service. I shipped a small parcel by sea 10.11 to Finland, and while I understand that it may take a little while yet to arrive (and may not get there for Christmas), I don't understand why a Christmas card + letter I posted on the same date hasn't gotten there yet, when letters are delivered by air by default. A card I posted to the Netherlands 30.11 got there 6.12, so...

And apparently a DVD that Timo sent me in August never showed up, either...

Also waiting anxiously for the gift from the BGG Secret Santa event. In the past I've had the BGGSS parcel show up while I'm away for Christmas, but this year my Secret Santa has decided to remain completely silent and not let me know if/when something is on its way.

Johanna says that she's also sent me something from Finland and that the postal clerk had said it should take approximately three weeks and get here by Christmas. I hope it appears while I'm gone (I'm going home on Saturday and will be back shortly after New Year's.).

I'm also in the BGG Christmas Card Exchange and I sent out five cards, so I'm supposed to get at least five back. Two showed up on the same day last week and I haven't gotten any more since.

It's like every day is an anticlimax: I walk out to the mailboxes every morning around 11 and it's empty or there's some bills or stupid political leaflets (most everybody has the 'no flyers or junk mail' sticker so we don't get the advertising stuff, but apparently that doesn't seem to apply to politics). A different person delivers the parcels, so I sit around in the early afternoon waiting for the door buzzer to ring, and it doesn't.



Finally, a news flash:
Finlandia-brand cheese is Finnish. The lady at the deli counter at Italian Centre Shop was really confused when I asked for some of that Finlandia Swiss cheese. Geez. Turns out they have it labelled (on their menu too!) as "Norwegian cheese." What?!

Comments

Finlandia-cheese

[kj869.livejournal.com]

Finlandia cheese is the foreign brand name for Valio companys cheese. Valio was the old Finnish Goverment owned milk product company. Currently theyre independent, except Valio icecreams are owned by Nestle

Re: Finlandia-cheese

[kyrasantae.livejournal.com]

Exactly so (it says as much on the plastic wrapper, if one is lucky enough to get to read it). I was being somewhat sarcastic in my comment, but the fact of the matter is that they had labelled it "Norwegian," which rather annoyed me.