- Some other little infos, although I'm perfectly aware you certainly won't have time to read all this.
registering unreceived postcards (don't even think about it)
I register all the postcards I have received, and I really don't like to feel a pressure to register something I have not received. This happened once with somebody who insisted several times and sent me an ID to register, I was obliged to report this person and will do the same each time somebody acts this way. And I'll never register the postcard that's not between my hands or anywhere else in da house. Point à la ligne.
apologizing
Please, don't apologize nor feel guilty for not having something that's listed on my profile, *relax* *zen* *zazen* it's a list that tells you about (some of) my interests in life, "and then on postcards if you need inspiration."
I don't pretend to like everything, that would be hypocritical, but the extensive list of what I like is still undone and will certainly never be done. Closing a door to anything that is not on a list is a bit like dying imo.
:)
What I should say is that many subjects that interest me still don't exist on postcards (or maybe don't exist anymore?), there is room for a much larger creative process in my opinion, but that's another story...
scan
I scan the postcards I send and that's always a joy to see the sender has done the same for me. Scanning received postcards requires more time available so I anticipate and sometimes don't register the same day I receive because I know there will be some scan job to do... Don't worry that's just a matter of a day or two but yes, it's always a nice surprise to see them already scanned.
On the other side, it's also possible I will not make the effort to san extensively all I receive if that's not already done. I will also sometimes delete a scan (or a photo) to replace it a better one, especially if it's a photo. Or I will also scan the stamp if it's a nice one, but I really lack of time and do this less ans less often unfortunately.
languages
I read french, english and spanish.
I can write in french and english.
People from spanish-speaking countries, don't write to me in english, please please please, it makes me so sad.
Due to lack of practise, I'm unable to write something in spanish, I will thank you in english (or french if you say you understand it) but I PERFECTLY read spanish and IT MAKES MY DAY if you send me your postcard in your BEAUTIFUL language.
Many years ago, I had a penpal from Argentina for 10 years, she wrote to me in spanish and I answered to her in french. Believe me, it was 10 pages letters, with not an easy language, we talked about politics, history and many many subjects, and at that time already, I thought I had forgotten everything I learned but no, we understood each others very easily and I realised that somewhere in my brain, there was a spanish area still active although a bit lazy, and of course I learned many new words and expressions thanks to this great and brilliant lady. Or I just understood them in the context and also because our languages are cousins.
But it's not only a question of practising a language. It's more something that goes with the fact that you are never completely yourself when you are obliged to use a language that is not yours ("j'habite ma langue"--> "My language is my home").
So I learned then that language is like ski or bicycle, you never forget it completely...... Native speakers of spanish, write to me in spanish (or I won't register your postcard). Joke. Pressure. Not to take seriously. But a bit ;) ♥
about envelopes (and what is inside)
I prefer to receive my postcard in an envelope. In a perfect world, I wouldn't. Like many, I like them written and stamped. But not twisted or torned up, or damaged by a machine, or at least not too much too often. So envelopes, yes. If it's possible.
This does not mean I want an unwritten postcard, I'm not doing a collection and your words on the postcard interest me.
Some persons ad other items to the poscard in the envelope. Who I am to tell you not to do so?! But please, consider it: paper, only paper, flat paper. A bookmark is ok, as is a recipe, but a tea bag, not really.
All that makes the envelope not flat makes it harder to travel, either because it can be stolen, either because it can be considered as suspect... I have received at least
Another thing, in France, money, either coins or banknotes, is strictly forbidden in the mail. So it's an absolute no no, either to send or to receive. Thanks for understanding.
postmark, cancellation
Since many years now, you won't see from where exactly the mail from France has been sent. No more name of the town, the village, the city or the area inside a city. It's only written "France" and then a cabalistic serie of digits.
You need to go in a post office to have a cancelation with the name of the place. That can mean, queuing for a long time!
About the cabalistic digits on your postcard from France, their signification was not supposed to be made public. But it has been done. And it gives you an info about the place that has taken in charge your mail, more precise than "France". Not too sure it's exhaustive, but here is it for example.
opinions, esp. religious ones
I like to think I'm a rather open-minded person, but maybe I should say that I'm strictly, once and for all and from the outset without any kind of religious beliefs.
Anyway, this is something so private I would not even have considered useful to talk about this with people I don't know, but I've seen that some people are taking for granted that I have a god (and even sometimes some special customs linked to this, for eg. in what I should or should not eat, drink or whatever). The answer is: no, thanks!
Being born from parents coming from two different cultures, but both totally atheists (my parents, not the culture they come from), this is for me a luck to have avoided certain aspects of cultural differences thanks to them.
We have plenty of things we can talk apart from this seriously uncomfortable topic.
a little something else...
You will read this only if you go till the end, and that's perfect to me. I've spent 6 years here without saying it, and there was obviously no need...
I'm an almost deaf person. I've not always been like that and it has increased (it's not linked to illness nor to age). That's it.
It changes a lot and it changes nothing. I've been like you, and I'm not anymore. I've been a big fan of music and I still listen to it. I've been to univ and was exactly like the other students. It has changed progressively. Just wanted to say it because there is no reason to hide it. But I won't talk about this more. And I want no messages of support, pity or things like that. Deafness does not define who I am. Or only a little aspect.
I see people talking about the illnesses they fought on their profile, well tbh this has made me feel often uncomfortable, I'm a very private person and obviously health matters are not those I would have written on internet. Maybe we change. But not that much. Still uncomfortable with this.
End of the subject.
january 2020 first edition, and then updated regularly
