Closer still

Rest assured, it's great to come home to a mailbox jammed with mail. Even though most of it is crap, there were two magazines, a Netflix movie I can't wait to see and a notice from Alaska Advantage stating that our respective student loan interest rates will be dropping by 3%.

Fuck, yeah.

But, it gets BETTER. My snail mail cache also included a very familiar SASE I'd included in one of my poetry submissions. Well, it's true that when you get such a letter, they've rejected you. And they did. BUT, there was a handwritten note at the bottom saying that one of my poems almost made it and to try again soon.

In the poetry world, this is very, very good. I've yet to actually publish, but this is my second "not now" note. High five.