CDs sent!

[kareina]

This morning I managed to burn the CDs to accompany my thesis. It turned out to be much easier than I'd anticipated. I've never needed to burn a CD before, so was quite pleased to discover that if one inserts a blank CD into my computer it promptly offers to burn a CD, and the program is completely intuative. They've now been "posted" (Australian term for "sent via snail-mail" for you Americans in my audience) via express mail, and once they arrive and my advisor sticks them into the pockets in the back of the books my thesis will be complete (until and unless the examiners decide they want me to make "corrections" to it, and it will likely be a couple of months before they get back to me on that, one way or the other). It is an odd feeling to be "done". I think I like it. Of course, now I need to start work on papers for publication based upon this research, I need to start listening to the Italian Language CDs that blamebrampton was kind enough to give me, and it might be a good idea to start reading literature related to the work I'll be doing in Italy...

This evening I had a delightful time visiting with corva and her husband (at whose house I'm staying), aleyn256 (an old friend of mine from when I lived in the Summits), and his lovely wife helena_br, and Susan (an old friend from when I lived in the Mists). While chatting I drew threads from the lovely navy blue linen which followed me home from Berkeley, in preparation for cutting nice straight lines so that it can be transformed into a new skirt.

Tomorrow I need to figure out how to get to Longbeach (anyone in the Portland area fancy an adventure?) so that I can meet up with the friend of a friend for the drive to Seattle, where my sisters and I will all be together for the first time since we lost my step dad, more than five years ago.

Comments

[mushroom-maiden.livejournal.com]

do they seriously not use the term "post" in America?

[fjorlief.livejournal.com]

I was about to say the same thing as Mushroom Maiden... I've always known and used tne term "post" as being synonymous with "mail". To my mind "post" is more proper, being a verb when mail is a noun

[kareina.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it is a regional thing, but several different people here hearing me say that I needed to burn the CD and post it to Australia thought that I meant that I'd upload the data on line, rather than snail-mailing a parcel with CDs in it.

[kareina.livejournal.com]

The term is used lots--in conjunction with the internet. One "posts" to an e-mail list, or to one's blog, or...

When it comes to physically sending a paper letter or parcel the most common term is "to mail" or "mailing". Which, as my friend Fjorlief points out below, is weird, since "mail" isn't really a verb...

[mushroom-maiden.livejournal.com]

Huh. Interesting!