I'm sorry I left your umbrella in Mail Boxes Etc.

[sovay]

General public service announcement: I appear to be experiencing a significant problem with my e-mail—as in, for reasons I do not yet understand, about a third of all messages sent to my account are not reaching me. Livejournal and Facebook notifications included. Nothing is showing up in my spam filter and no one is reporting any bounces, but if you've written to me recently and haven't received a reply, please re-send your message; it's not you, it's computers. In the meantime, I shall continue to worry about the work-related correspondences I have almost certainly been missing and hope I haven't permanently alienated anyone.

[edit]

Score one for old-fashioned methods of communication: I just received a box in the mail from shweta_narayan, containing multiple books including Angélica Gorodischer's Kalpa Imperial (2003) trans. Ursula K. Le Guin, Alexei Panshin's Rite of Passage (1968), and a trade paperback of Elizabeth Marie Pope's The Sherwood Ring (1958), to replace the copy I lent out to friends once and never saw again.

Combined with the fact that nineweaving gave me Susan Cooper's The Magic Maker: A Portrait of John Langstaff (2011) this afternoon at Porter Square Books and I had a store coupon that covered Le Guin's The Wild Girls (2011), I consider today a total win for print and ink. Just not so much for electronics.

Comments

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

Dude, I sent you an electronic mail message twenty-seven minutes ago. I am so permanently alienated.

(For serious, sorry. If you would like to come to the dark side that is gmail -- and yes, I know how you feel about this -- we do have cookies.)

[selidor]

Wow, inconvenient. (Our server went down for 48 hours on Christmas Eve & half the department panicked...) This is your editor at taaffe address? You have mail from me from Dec 7 (maybe 6 from datelines); I hadn't been worried ;)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I've had similar happen to me, now and then, and work is always the biggest worry. Good luck sorting it out.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Sorry to hear of he mess. I hope you can get it sorted swiftly.

I'm glad for the print and ink goodness. Enjoy!

Will this be your first time reading Rite of Passage? I'll be curious to hear your opinion.

[desayunoencama.livejournal.com]

Yay for print and ink!
:-)