city lights for orange nights

my boxes just arrived in the mail, the ones I filled with the items I didn't want to put on the pallet because I used them all the time... the ones that took 2 weeks instead of 5 days to get here. I have been cursing myself for being so stupid ever since.... but now it's all here! everything I own in the world is here! my winter coat, among other things. that'll be nice.
it was fucking cold as fuck today. more snow fell. it was beautiful and celestial. unless you're reliant on public transit, that is. then you will think dark and discouraged things, and mucus will freeze upon your lip, and it'll be too icy-windy to properly sing along to Big Audio Dynamite or whatever frivolous crap you have in your headphones to try to make yourself feel better.
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the day improved exponentially. today was actually altogether awesome, when taken as a single circadian mass.

-so as not to freeze to the windshield. I forgot about this too.
-Jedi mail.
-snow this afternoon.
-my snail lamp arrived intact!
-Star XXXVI. this poor fucking reindeer. for non-Alaskans: the Stewart family has owned a Star the Reindeer since before I was born. a Star dies every couple years or so (one was stolen and killed and another one died after eating a plastic bag- I just learned this from the internets), a maudlin story is included in the paper, and another Star (they're always named Star) takes its place. we visited this fucking thing on a field trip in elementary school once. now, once again, I live in the same neighborhood as it. it's kind of sad. I talked to it tonight. it lives in an enclosed yard in a little 1940s house on a busy thoroughfare in downtown Anchorage. it came right up to the fence, looking morose. reindeer are not exactly indigenous to the area, by the way. it is kinda cute though, innit?
-you can be even Star's friend on Facebook.
-sexy, mysterious Tudor & Elmore, waiting for a bus in 2 degree windchill and horizontal snow.

and I got an even better job today.