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MeTa post:
Possibly, Secret Santa
I, for one, am a big fan of fun AND surprise non-gun-rack gifts, both given and received. Sign me up for Secret Quonsar.
posted to MetaTalk by tigerbelly
at 8:03 AM on November 26, 2007
I was thinking/wondering if we couldn't move up the date on the one we have started, since we won't find out who we are trading with until two days before the mailing date, and well, doesn't leave much time to ask anonymous questions and maybe personalize the gift a bit. Would help with the problem brautigan and misha noticed as well.
I wholeheartedly second (or is it third?) this. Finding out who your giftee is just two days before the mailing date... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by tigerbelly
at 2:52 PM on December 5, 2007
I ordered my Secret Quonsar gift a few days ago, and it finally shipped today...buuuut...I believe my Secret Quonsar identity is completely blown. It appears the otherwise lovely company from which the gift comes automatically prints the sender's name/billing address on the packing slip, and there's not a thing I could do about it. Alas. My secret is out! When it arrives, I must politely request of my giftee that you please do not take this opportunity to send the box of ladybugs back to my... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by tigerbelly
at 8:11 PM on December 17, 2007
Does the post office even take packages without a return address?
No, but various solutions in such situations are:
1. order gift, have the company you ordered from send gift
2. have someone else mail gift for you
3. use some form of return address that is not necessarily identifying (office address, apt building address w/out apt #, etc.)
Anyway, I realized the quonsar mystery is preserved... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by tigerbelly
at 5:30 AM on December 18, 2007
Hooray! My Secret Quonsar gift arrived yesterday, just in time for a pick-me-up from the exhaustion of family Xmas. Thank you, Secret Quonsar! I am terrifically excited to figure out how best to use all these crazy spices. Unfamiliar foreign foodstuffs, cooking-related, AND exciting experiments! All in one! Clever, clever Secret Quonsar.
posted to MetaTalk by tigerbelly
at 8:29 AM on December 27, 2007
MeTa post:
reading without phonics?
Hm. I'm struggling to remember here. My mother taught me to read, pre-kindergarten, and I don't quite recall how she did it. She read to me a lot, and I also remember something along the lines of making little drawings in notebooks and labeling them. I know that I definitely never had any kind of phonics "class" (that seems like a really weird idea to me!). I read early, voraciously, very quickly, and always several grades above my "grade level."... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by tigerbelly
at 7:53 AM on October 24, 2007
