books, music, books again

i received the 2005 annual print issue of loch raven review today; that is, i picked it up at the post office today. it took me about 50 minutes for what normally takes 5-10 minutes! i went to the post office around the corner to "quickly pick it up before lunch": spent 5 mins in the queue, then the clerk started looking for my package. and she looked and looked, and searched and searched - nothing. after at least 10 mins, she rang the other post office, the main post office of the 10th district. she told me my package was THERE. but of course. so i walked there, 10 mins. spent 17 minutes in the queue (nice to see time ticking away like that! not!) and got my package within half a minute. 10 min walk back. sigh. i am in good company in the book: arlene ang, teresa white, christopher t. george, gary blankenship, georg trakl, erich fried, rainer maria rilke and others.

i also got jeannine hall gailey's book becoming the villainess today and i look forward to reading that.

i visited pris campbell's blog lately and followed a link to a national geographic world music site. pris linked to a sami song, music from lapland, northern scandinavia, which reminded me of the cd i bought in lapland last year, sleangacuoivvat by sancuari. one of their songs can be found on my blog, an entry from back in august 2005.

and today i remembered one of my favourite austrian folk songs, sung by a small choir from my home province, carinthia. it's called i hab di gern, and it's a beautiful love song - don't you think? it's my song of the day.



btw - i have added a recently read / currently reading section below the poetry links in the navigation bar, and i intend to keep it up to date.