Myth of Arrival

Ah, the first sleet of the year!

This Sergei Rachmaninoff-person is on the stereo, some droll piano concerto, I am led to believe. I am not too sure what all the hype is about. You see, my local mega-mart, Meijer Thrifty Acres, has mega-discounted Classical CDs; it's a great deal, since they must assume no one in the greater Midwest farming community listens to Hayden or Berlioz, so for the price of a soda pop you can buy The Best of … and open yourself up to something new. On my lunch break, in my nurse scrubs, I was getting the week's shop done (half an hour to buy as much coffee creamer and orange juice as I can carry) when my eye fell upon Rachmaninoff¹ and one thing led to another and here we are.

However, along with the first sleet of the year,² the five author copies of Sam's, Ruelaine's, Robert's and moi's 4 Against the Wall: a poetry anthology from iUniverse arrived at my doorstep this afternoon. I dropped off the other four copies in Ruelaine's mailbox at her place.

I have no idea what we shall do with the extra copy. I thought donate it the Special Collections at Michigan State University library along with the tapes we used for the interview would be a nice touch (plus if we all sign it). But if someone has a better idea, sugegstions are fine.

In the meantime … sleet!

1. Though if anyone wants to be good to me and buy any of my very, very favorite classical music series, the Mad About … would be a wonderful First Sleet of the Year gift [back]
2. I thought everyone would also be interested to note that I didn't win the MegaMillions $310 million Super Lotto last night (winning numbers: 02 04 05 40 48 07) either [back]

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