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My parents are up visiting this week, bearing with them a significant portion of suitcase real estate dedicated to the miscellaneous mail and packages that I've somehow justified sending their way during the past month in exchange for my boundless enthusiasm and know-it-all airs about our newly adopted city. One of the items was a mystery issue of Vanity Fair, a magazine that I do not subscribe to but which appeared at my forwarding address at my parents' house nonetheless. Interrogating some likely sources about its origins ("Um, did you give me a gift several months after my birthday, not tell me about it, and then send it someplace where I don't actually live?") turned up no clues, so I accepted the mystery magazine. It's better than the inexplicable subscription to Maxim that I acquired a few years ago, I figured. "And, hey!" I said excitedly to Pete, "this month's issue is the one with Carla Bruni on the cover! I want to read that!" Which then sent me into a completely inadequate explanation of a) who Bruni-Sarkozy is, and b) why the French care so much, but that's beyond the point.

Then my parents showed up today, and -- amidst the random books and DVDs and forwarded notices and eBayed vintage belt and fabric linings that I just had to buy from Stateside sources -- there was a plastic-wrapped Vanity Fair. Which turned out to actually be an advertisement on the verso of my one last un-forwarded magazine, Bon Appetit. And really, I was shocked by the depths of my disappointment about this. Apparently I had been very much looking forward to this magazine, or at least Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. Maybe even enough to take them up on the $15 / year subscription offer.

... which is only available in the US, because it's $38 plus GST Canadian. Maybe enough, anyway, to subscribe at my parents' address in the states, and then have them forward it up to me irregularly? Or, more likely, just wait until we start accumulating catalogues at this address, so I have reading material suitable for occasionally spilling my dinner on.

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