pleasant surprises.

huntington library cactus.

two things.

one, i came home one day earlier this week to find a very thoughtful package waiting for me. it was a very fancy cookbook, with very exquisitely arranged and beautifully photographed dishes in it. too bad it's all in german and i can't actually make anything in it. or even make sense of it.

two, there was a voice message left for me today at my parents residence. it was a phone call from the penn police, saying that my wallet had been found (it was stolen october 2007).

a little back story: i had a 9am-noon class in the art building basement. i left my bag at my computer while we had a crit on the other side of the room, when i got back my wallet was gone! two other kids in my class had their wallet stolen too, so we reported it. over the next couple weeks, more and more stuff was stolen from the art building. one girl had her whole bag taken - wallet, ipod, cell phone, laptop. anyway, i was lucky since there really wasn't any money in my wallet, just a couple bucks. but it was a pain canceling all my credit cards and what not. the real bummer was the wallet itself, which was a ~$200 ferragamo wallet my mom had given me for my birthday, and i absolutely adored it.

but yay, now it's found! or potentially found, and i'm super excited. hopefully they can mail it out to california..