Woo! Day of mail awesome! scribe_protra, I got your card! And genuinelie I got your card too (so pretty) and delicious cookies (mmm, delicious). And chibi_trillian, we got your box as well and I zoomed through both mine and Brian's books, which were both A++! Thank you all so much! (I am hoping that scribe_protra and chibi_trillian have received their packages as well?...One of these years I'll get around to adding mail tracking and stop fretting about this.)


In less mail of awesome...it seems that I owe the state of Maryland $420 (sad lol) in taxes from 2005. I always file 503 and it seems I need to start filing 502 or else MD needs to stop being lame because apparently they don't honor federal tuition deductions and don't say so anywhere at all pertinent to the taxpayer. See, I didn't know that they didn't honor it and so, as per usual since I don't itemize deductions, I filed a 503. Nowhere in a 503 does it mention federal tuition deductions must be added back into your earnings. However, it does clearly say so on Instruction 12 of the 502. So I've gotta pay (the worst part is that $110 of this bullshit is INTEREST! FUCKERS! This is why people hate the government) and I need to double check '06 and '07 and file an ammended claim (and pay more, sheesh) so that I don't get smacked with still MORE interest in the future. There goes my car-fixing medical study money. Sigh...

I've been making my way through Yuletide in an attempt to keep from dwelling on how depressing this all is and am only on 'F' so I guess that's a good thing. Orz...

Edit: Feeling slightly better by staring at ADORABLE ZoLu fanart on Y!Gallery (omg, bunny!Zoro is one of my secret favorite things!). Now if only someone would write Oda School AU (I'd do it myself if I could get my hands on a translation) to go along with some of the amazing fanart I've seen of Punk!Zoro/Nerd!Luffy...