blowing away the blues

I am no longer melancholy! Magically, as soon as I had finished opening my presents, the dreaded anticipated moment had passed and needed to be no longer anticipated and now I am fine! T'family was so sweet! And guess what?

I got an Oxford Shorter Dictionary!

I'll just repeat that and try not to drool as I type it:

I got an Oxford Shorter Dictionary!!!



*drools abjectly*

I love it! How could I remain melancholy when that plopped out of its wrapping? T'h gave me my first Oxford Concise in 1981 and it sits by my desk, its cover fallen off, its pages ripping out, the most used book in the house! And now the Shorter! And I immediately had a word to look up that wasn't in my Concise: punctiliar. Oh, how I drool!

Also, I got some yummy books, incl. Dante's Inferno and Purgatorio, in the bilingual edition, and poems by Petrarch, and the newest Vikram Seth and Margaret Atwood; also (HAH) the Sims. Hah. My addiction will be fed! Hah. Hah.

But omg, the Oxford Shorter.

Oh, and t'son (so sweet) gave me a gmail account. And t'other son gave me a self-made card. *hugs them to bits*

And I had a horrible meeting with my horrible line manager, *vomits* but I got the Oxford Shorter so who cares, whee!

My gmail address is @googlemail.com. Now why is that, and how can I change that to gmail.com?

*goes off to eat cake, look up words, peruse 'first usages' and etymologies, and debauch my Sim*