Items being shipped in or out of my apartment this week:

Checks, one box
Wooden planks, four
Thong
Books on multiple literacies, two
Tin of mango tea
Pajamas
Pizza box insulator?
Starbucks "Bearistas," each dressed as the Statue of Liberty, three
Pillowcase (forest green, gold lettering)
Chinese fungus dessert

The bears are bound for the Seattle chapter of the ACLU, believe it or not. On their request. The designers of he bears appear to have abandoned the "torch" idea, and instead the toys hold aloft what I can only make sense of as the Yes Men's "Employee Visualization Appendage" (a golden dildo) caught in a rusty, nasty-looking bear trap.