An inventory.

I think it's reasonable to list the items I have received in the last two weeks - about half from my mother's crazed shippings and half from my own fortunes. They seem notable.

1 set of disposable sunglasses
2 bags of shredded money
3 torn backpacks
8 personal pan pizzas
1000 (approx.) Legos
5 Lego land pieces
3 22inx18inx12in parcel posted boxes
8 smaller boxes
4 hoodies I had when I was 12
21 books*
1 set of my own teeth
1 baseball glove sponsored by a defunct radio station
1 bow
3 arrows
1 tennis racket, size small
1 fact, that that tennis rackets come in sizes
1 Catholic bible, de St Thomas More Cathedral School, circa 1999
1 sample razor, 'for turning 18'
1 sample deodorant, for 'blazing trails' and being a 'risk-taker'
0 laundry processes
two or three dozen horrible fears
a few pounds of sugar
1 horrible, horrible discovery as to the extent of my own narcissism, which I will reveal to
everyone except
Layla.


Because Christ Almighty is it scary.

*Fun Fact: the names of the books.
[P.G. Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves/Very Good, Jeeves/Right Ho, Jeeves!; Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall; Alessandro Manzoni - The Betrothed; Jean Froissart - Chronicles; Benvenuto Cellini - Autobiography;, Christopher Hibbert - The House of Medici; Stephen Greenblatt - Will of the World; J.H. Plumb - The Italian Renaissance; Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God (ugh);Anton Chekov - Five Short Stories; Oscar Wilde - Salome; Petracca, Sorapure, Et al.- Reading and Writing about American Popular Culture, 4th Edition; Oliver Goldsmith - She Stoops To Conquer; Five Jacobean Tragedies: The Revenger's Tragedy/Women Beware Women/The Changeling/The Duchess of Malfi/The White Devil; and, uh, the latest Harry Potter.]