While at work today I got a text from my brother: "your ss is here". F'in sweet. Especially because the tracking says that it's still in Chicago, and has been for the past 5 days.

Annie, you are awesome. I wasn't expecting a gift of this caliber at all. You did some damn fine work and surprisingly covered a lot of ground considering the lengthy description of my general interests.

Upon opening the packaging I revealed a lovely 'map of the world' themed box which is pretty cool in itself. Inside was, wrapped in a starry mesh material, a note describing the journey Annie took to gather all these gifts, a LOTR poster that she won 2nd place for at Comic Con (very impressed Annie, this is great and it's now above my desk), a large collection of badges that she both designed and then made for me! (all pertaining to my tastes - loving the studio Ghibli ones), and last but not least: Broca's Brain by Carl Sagan from 1979 and an old/rare bookshop. I haven't read it yet but i'm very much looking forward to it.

Thanks so much!