mail myself to you

[pauraque_bk]

I shipped some of my books to _hannelore. This is very exciting! (Yes, me rambling about the minutiae of moving far away is going to carry on until August. I've never moved more than an hour away before, sue me.)

Obviously they're books that I don't read/use all the time, or I wouldn't be sending them so soon, but they're books I care about and want, or they would have gone to the donation pile. So it's meaningful to me, because I r a book geek.

Almost all the little kid books from my kidhood are long gone, but I do have some amount of older-kid and YA books left, the ones I liked. I have to admit it's exciting to think about _hannelore's son reading them when he gets older. I was keeping them solely because I liked them; I never had aspirations of having kids. But now, with the reality of it, it seems very different from the vague concept of "kids" that didn't interest me at all. Hannelore Jr. is a real human being whom I like. It might be different if I didn't know him, or if he was just a baby.

Life is occasionally interesting. >:D

Comments

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

I've moved continents and, every time, the first thing sent ahead was the books! I've left electronic goods and clothes behind (a big deal for me, because I am a highly unwilling shopper) just to bring more books.

[pauraque]

Oh really, where did you move from?

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

My parents' house in rural Australia ---> Japan ---> university housing in Melbourne, and later university housing in Melbourne ---> Japanese university housing ----> Melbourne share flat!

[pauraque]

Interesting! Why did you go to Japan the first time?

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

I went to Japan to teach English at a high school for a year straight after I finished high school, staying with host families. I'd studied Japanese in school (my school was so small as to only have one language option!) and my school had a sister school, in Okazaki, near Nagoya. Then I studied more Japanese at uni, and part of the course was an exchange to Tokyo University for a year, which was awesome fun. Both times, though, I ended up with a lot of books! In fact, some of the larger Japanese bookshopss had better English language selections than Australian bookshops, especially in the SF/F range.