But I'm not sure what effect you expected it to have on the texture?

I guess I didn't expect it to be something that you have to dig out of your teeth.

I have a problem handling my mail. But I'm going to have to process the unopened mail this week, before company gets here. Bleh. Just feel avoidant

Amen. I have stacks and stacks. Especially the junk mail that I get sent that I think "I should really shred this rather than just throwing it out", but then somehow i just end up with a pile of it, unshredded. And then all the rest of the mail I haven't dealt with. And then eventually the mail that I should've been able to easily say "this is junk to throw out" but instead have thrown on top of the pile of stuff that isn't junk but I haven't opened either.

Did you guys see that incredibly offensive Cintra Wilson piece about JCPenney in the NYTimes a couple of weeks ago? The Public Editor addresses it: [link]

Wow. That sounds like a truly hateful piece. I hope her apologies are sincere.

Just read that Jamaica won as many golds in Berlin as we had won in total at the IAAF championships up to last year. I'm all asquee.

another household with mail problems. there are just a few things every day that should get opened, but really , we don't need to hang onto . nor would it be tragic if it was never opened. But they must hang out for a few months, just in case. Just in case of what, I'm not sure...

I pay so many of my bills electronically that I don't open them when they come in the mail. I'm finally cancelling mail delivery of them. Which is when I realised that at least one provider (T Mobile) is about to start charging me for sending me paper.

That sounds like a truly hateful piece.

It truly was.

I pay so many of my bills electronically that I don't open them when they come in the mail.

I do this, and then with all the travel I was doing this spring I've kind of started forgetting to check my mail at all. Earlier this summer I actually wondered if I'd not actually been invited to a wedding I'd made travel plans to attend, until it occurred to me it'd been over a month since I opened my mailbox. (Luckily it was still two days before the RSVP date.)

The article by Wilson seems to have a duel personality --- in the sam e sentence she praises and mocks JC Pennys - so odd.

and she is mean - to the point where she sounds ignorant. I don't shop a lot in JC penny's -- mostly because the one here is really messy. But it is the place where I found a pair of jeans for 1.99.

How can wilson honestly write a column for the Times and say that she expects her article to be 1,300 women in Connecticut and Manhattan, plus "a couple of gay guys"? WTF?

I have become super strict about mail. Everything that is not a bill or something I need for work gets thrown away immediately. I still have a hard time with birthday cards and stuff, though -- my instinct is to save them, even knowing I never ever go back to reread them.