Giles ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I don't know, sumi. Here's what mine says (it's coming UPS though and not USPS):
July 20, 2007 07:50:00 AM FRANKLIN PARK IL US Departure Scan
July 20, 2007 04:44:00 AM FRANKLIN PARK IL US Held by carrier - customer to arrange delivery
I didn't arrange anything, but it left the facility 3 hours later.
Ah.
Okay, mine is being held in DeKalb -- I guess that means that tomorrow the will deliver.
Okay, mine LIES and says that the receiver requested a hold and the service is basic -- does that mean I won't get it 'til Monday?
Here's what it says:
DEKALB,IL, US 07/20/2007 8:02 A.M.
THE RECEIVER REQUESTED A HOLD FOR A FUTURE DELIVERY DATE. UPS WILL ATTEMPT DELIVERY ON DATE REQUESTED / DELIVERY RESCHEDULED
I just went to UPS and here's what they said about mine
THE RECEIVER REQUESTED A HOLD FOR A FUTURE DELIVERY DATE. UPS WILL ATTEMPT DELIVERY ON DATE REQUESTED / DELIVERY RESCHEDULED
I did NOT request a hold!!! Amazon requested it. Which means, UPS would have delivered it today. It's sitting there in Franklin Park. I could be there in 30 minutes. But, I bet they wouldn't give it to me, huh?
does that mean I won't get it 'til Monday?
No, you'll get it tomorrow.
Mine arrived and was scanned in yesterday!!!!
I just doublechecked mine (because all the cool kids are doing it), and it's just hanging out in Cincinnati, waiting.
WANT.
I also found a used copy of a book I had when I was a kid, which I had forgotten the title of. It's a collection of stories about princesses, all of whom are not stereotypical waiting-for-a-prince passive princesses. Not a Sleeping Beauty among them. Instead, the stories are about princesses who overcome evil curses, outsmart a dragon who's about to attack the castle, and make peace with a mean giant.
Because I never rely on Occam's razor, when I couldn't remember the title of this book about princesses, I tried googling all kinds of related keywords.
Anyway, I eventually found it. The title? The Princess Book. Of course.
Amazon says mine will be here "July 23-27." Surely they're just fucking with me, right?
Steph, there's a more grown-up book along the same lines called Don't Bet on the Prince, made up of feminist fairy tales written within the past 40 years or so.
ETA to fix the damn title!
If you ordered it by July 17th they are.