Damn, got to get me a Bachelors degree
Dec. 16th, 2008 10:23 am | AMTA MD Chapter Announcement |  |
You do not have to get me anything this year, seriously.
I am the opposite of solvent which equals broke. Please for the lub of jeebus don't waste your money.
OR like I'm doing for my mom that doesn't want us to spend money - Print out/copy and paste a picture of what you were going to get me and give it/send it to me. It will truly be the thought that counted!
If you insist please make sure it is something hella useful or off this wish list.
Please sort by highest to lowest priority. It's a pigger christmas.
Or Gift Certificates to:
Royal Farms - I can use it for gas or food, you can keep me going!
Body Shop - You can help me be the good kind of stinky!
Wal-Mart - I am in need of socks! Or other stuff that can be purchased at 2AM.
Any super market - I will always need a food!
Thank you for your consideration and have a great holiday season.
Holidays and Suches
Dec. 1st, 2008 09:00 amYou do not have to get me anything this year, seriously.
I am the opposite of solvent which equals broke. Please for the lub of jeebus don't waste your money.
OR like I'm doing for my mom that doesn't want us to spend money - Print out/copy and paste a picture of what you were going to get me and give it/send it to me. It will truly be the thought that counted!
If you insist please make sure it is something hella useful or off this wish list.
Please sort by highest to lowest priority.
Or Gift Certificates to:
Royal Farms - I can use it for gas or food, you can keep me going!
Body Shop - You can help me be the good kind of stinky!
Wal-Mart - I am in need of socks! Or other stuff that can be purchased at 2AM.
Any super market - I will always need a food!
Thank you for your consideration and have a great holiday season.
I am the opposite of solvent which equals broke. Please for the lub of jeebus don't waste your money.
OR like I'm doing for my mom that doesn't want us to spend money - Print out/copy and paste a picture of what you were going to get me and give it/send it to me. It will truly be the thought that counted!
If you insist please make sure it is something hella useful or off this wish list.
Please sort by highest to lowest priority.
Or Gift Certificates to:
Royal Farms - I can use it for gas or food, you can keep me going!
Body Shop - You can help me be the good kind of stinky!
Wal-Mart - I am in need of socks! Or other stuff that can be purchased at 2AM.
Any super market - I will always need a food!
Thank you for your consideration and have a great holiday season.
Also for your reading pleasure...
Nov. 18th, 2008 01:17 am"Studies have indicated that self-described morning people have shorter circadian rhythms than self-identified night owls. This means that morning people sleep through their peak hour of sleepiness, so they wake up feeling refreshed. Evening types usually wake up right around their peak hour of sleepiness, so they may have high levels of melatonin and feel groggy. No wonder it’s tough to rouse them."
Full Article here:
http://www.divinecaroline.com/article/22189/55286-truth-night-owls-morning
Full Article here:
http://www.divinecaroline.com/article/22189/55286-truth-night-owls-morning
Writer's Block: Reading Aloud
Nov. 6th, 2008 09:59 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
Poe, with out a doubt. That guy is the living embodiment of Goth.
Hearing what he would put emphasis on, what he would chose to read.
Poe, with out a doubt. That guy is the living embodiment of Goth.
Hearing what he would put emphasis on, what he would chose to read.
SOCK MY PUNKS!
Oct. 10th, 2008 09:20 amREPOST
Hi there!
I’m the Resource Coordinator for a non-profit organization that works with homeless and indigent teenagers, as well as teens who are in bad home situations. OxenFree is a really fantastic program that engages at-risk teens through punk rock music, and provides support in a drug-free and alcohol-free environment.
The reason I’m invading blogs today? My job with OxenFree is to receive requests from the phenomenal people who run the program, and to figure out a way to fill them. My current assignment is…SOCKS. And I have to admit, I’m a bit at a loss. Socks are not a large-volume item at clothing centers (people usually just wear them out instead of donating them), and they’re surprisingly expensive. Homeless teenagers, especially hitchhikers, go through socks like you wouldn’t believe. My friend Margie can no longer afford to keep stocking her “free socks” drawer by herself, and asked me if I could try working my magic.
So, would you be willing to help me sock my punks?
If so, thank you in advance! Thank you so much! Any donation is welcome (supplies only, please) at the following address:
OxenFree Donations
4922 E. New York St.
Indianapolis, IN 46201
Toothbrushes, toothpaste, and tampons are also very useful and hard-to-come-by items.
If shipping to Indiana is too expensive, it would totally rock MY socks off if you considered donating to a similar program in your own city. At-risk teens are everywhere. They’re really neat people, and doing tiny things to help them out has an incredible effect.
Thank you so much, again, for your time, attention and consideration!
D. T. Friedman
Because D.T. doesn’t have a website, I’ve offered to let her use the comment thread of this post to answer questions. Meanwhile, pass the word and send socks.
Daily Chance to Do Good
Oct. 9th, 2008 01:54 pmAll text below the lines by
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elionwyr...-------------------------------------
Go read this:
As always, RM is eloquent even in her anger..this time, about health insurance.
The reason I'm posting this link:
Once Upon a Time, I spent much too little time in the presence of an amazing woman. She radiated a refreshing coolness that I wanted to bask in for a very long time. Beautiful eyes. A music-filled voice.
Later, when she expressed the desire to look at me for hours, a shiver ran through me.
roadnotes is one of my secret crushes. Sometimes she has left fantasy-comments about spending time with me - the most memorable fantasy was about us blowing things up in a microwave - and again, I would shiver, wishing I had the courage to take advantage of relative proximity, to drive up to NYC and get to know her better, to intersect the path of her daily orbit for a moment or two.A few days ago, her love,
baldanders had a hemorrhagic stroke. He is 44.
He has no health insurance; he is a freelance copyeditor and a blogger, both here on LJ and elsewhere.
The doctors are not being very encouraging.
And so...I have a request.
And that request is two-fold:
1)
baldanders is a lover of music. Which is putting it lightly. There's an open request for people to send him mix CDs - his musical tastes are reflected here, here, and here.If you would like to send him music, click here.
2) Tomorrow at 12:30PM, http://popdose.com/ will be posting a donation link to help Soren with his medical costs. I ask that you please consider visiting that site and clicking on that Paypal link.
In
roadnotes's words:"I worry about sounding too sentimental, but the woman I have been since Soren chose me is ... just so much more than I think I would have been on my own. He is an amazing man, and my heart's favorite song.
roadnotes and baldanders have been members of LJ since 2000.Please spread the word.
Continuing info here:
http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/ar
Please sign and repost?
May. 12th, 2008 02:54 pmREPOSTED
"Hey all, I'd like to ask everyone to take a minute, read this story and then please sign the petition. If my journal brings you any kind of joy or amusement, I would ask this simple favor in return. It takes no effort and could potentially bring some joy into the life of a wonderful woman facing a terminal illness. It's currently at 3200 signatures and with just the people who read my journal we could easily push this to over 4000. So please, click the link and sign the petition. It would mean so much to Melissa and her family. Please reply here if you sign, I woulld love to show Melissa and her family how many caring folks my friends list is made of. Thank you all in advance. -Joe"
The Petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/FIVER/
The Website: http://projectfiver.com/
( Read more... )
"Hey all, I'd like to ask everyone to take a minute, read this story and then please sign the petition. If my journal brings you any kind of joy or amusement, I would ask this simple favor in return. It takes no effort and could potentially bring some joy into the life of a wonderful woman facing a terminal illness. It's currently at 3200 signatures and with just the people who read my journal we could easily push this to over 4000. So please, click the link and sign the petition. It would mean so much to Melissa and her family. Please reply here if you sign, I woulld love to show Melissa and her family how many caring folks my friends list is made of. Thank you all in advance. -Joe"
The Petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/FIVER/
The Website: http://projectfiver.com/
( Read more... )
Spread this meme: Pretty Bird Woman House
Nov. 14th, 2007 03:11 pm(via lizardling; all text is hers except for what she got from elsewhere.)
In 2004, Jackie Brown Otter founded Pretty Bird Woman House, a women's shelter at the Standing Rock Reservation in South Dakota. The shelter is named after Brown Otter's sister, who was kidnapped, raped and beaten to death in 2001.
According to Amnesty Intn'l report,
High levels of sexual violence on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation take place in a context of high rates of poverty and crime... The unemployment rate on the Reservation is 71 per cent. Crime rates on the Reservation often exceed those of its surrounding areas. According to FBI figures, in 2005 South Dakota had the fourth highest rate of "forcible rapes" of women of any US state.
As a special bonus to the Lakota Sioux Reservation, there are sufficient desensitization to crime and confusion over Tribal/Non-Tribal jurisdiction at Standing Rock to create rape tourism. Says Andrea Smith, an Assistant Professor of Native Studies at the University of Michigan,
[N]on-Native perpetrators often seek out a reservation place because they know they can inflict violence without much happening to them.
Against these odds, Pretty Bird Woman House is staffed by three people-- a nurse, a volunteer, and a part-time employee-- and from January to October of this year, they managed to:
-- answer 397 crisis calls
-- give emergency shelter to 188 women and 132 children
-- help 23 women obtain restraining orders, 10 get divorces, and 16 get medical assistance
-- provide court advocacy support for 28 women
-- conduct community education programs for 360 women.
A few weeks ago, PBWH's phone lines were cut, the office was ransacked, and the building was burnt down.
Everyone was away from the house at the time, but all possessions were lost, and-- because PBWH's grant from the South Dakota Coalition Against Domestic Violence is predicated on its ability to shelter women-- its funding is also lost. Now everybody's trying to pick up the pieces.
Click here for the full story.
How you can help:
1. Donate what you can for a new house.
Pretty Bird Woman House already has two potential replacement houses in mind. Both offer significantly more space than the previous building... full basements, storage room and would house more than double the families and women than their previous building. Both buildings have yards which means possible playgrounds for children.
One house has a major advantage in location - a police station across the street.
Because of difficulties obtaining loans (banks are allergic to both Native Americans and poverty) the best solution lies in purchasing the house outright. The Tribal Council could hold the mortgage but coming up with the mortgage payments every month creates an ongoing problem. Since both houses are on the market, they could be gone anytime. Depressed property values on Standing Rock mean that $60,000 gets the house. An additional $10,000 is required to make them secure, with proper fencing, video cameras, reinforced doors and other measures.
Since 10/25, the drive for donations for PBWH has garnered 17% of the $70,000 goal; the drive ends January 2008-- so consider donating in someone's name as a Christmas present. Donations can be made here.
**Note: I checked, and these folks are down as a 501(c)3 organization which I believe qualifies for a bunch of employer matching programs if those are available.
2. Donate material goods-- clothing, toiletries, non-perishables, etc.
USPS to:
Pretty Bird Woman House
P.O. Box 596
McLaughlin, SD 57642
or FedEx, UPS, DHL ship to:
Pretty Bird Woman House
302 Sale Barn Rd.
McLaughlin SD 57642
3. Spread this meme.
In 2004, Jackie Brown Otter founded Pretty Bird Woman House, a women's shelter at the Standing Rock Reservation in South Dakota. The shelter is named after Brown Otter's sister, who was kidnapped, raped and beaten to death in 2001.
According to Amnesty Intn'l report,
High levels of sexual violence on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation take place in a context of high rates of poverty and crime... The unemployment rate on the Reservation is 71 per cent. Crime rates on the Reservation often exceed those of its surrounding areas. According to FBI figures, in 2005 South Dakota had the fourth highest rate of "forcible rapes" of women of any US state.
As a special bonus to the Lakota Sioux Reservation, there are sufficient desensitization to crime and confusion over Tribal/Non-Tribal jurisdiction at Standing Rock to create rape tourism. Says Andrea Smith, an Assistant Professor of Native Studies at the University of Michigan,
[N]on-Native perpetrators often seek out a reservation place because they know they can inflict violence without much happening to them.
Against these odds, Pretty Bird Woman House is staffed by three people-- a nurse, a volunteer, and a part-time employee-- and from January to October of this year, they managed to:
-- answer 397 crisis calls
-- give emergency shelter to 188 women and 132 children
-- help 23 women obtain restraining orders, 10 get divorces, and 16 get medical assistance
-- provide court advocacy support for 28 women
-- conduct community education programs for 360 women.
A few weeks ago, PBWH's phone lines were cut, the office was ransacked, and the building was burnt down.
Everyone was away from the house at the time, but all possessions were lost, and-- because PBWH's grant from the South Dakota Coalition Against Domestic Violence is predicated on its ability to shelter women-- its funding is also lost. Now everybody's trying to pick up the pieces.
Click here for the full story.
How you can help:
1. Donate what you can for a new house.
Pretty Bird Woman House already has two potential replacement houses in mind. Both offer significantly more space than the previous building... full basements, storage room and would house more than double the families and women than their previous building. Both buildings have yards which means possible playgrounds for children.
One house has a major advantage in location - a police station across the street.
Because of difficulties obtaining loans (banks are allergic to both Native Americans and poverty) the best solution lies in purchasing the house outright. The Tribal Council could hold the mortgage but coming up with the mortgage payments every month creates an ongoing problem. Since both houses are on the market, they could be gone anytime. Depressed property values on Standing Rock mean that $60,000 gets the house. An additional $10,000 is required to make them secure, with proper fencing, video cameras, reinforced doors and other measures.
Since 10/25, the drive for donations for PBWH has garnered 17% of the $70,000 goal; the drive ends January 2008-- so consider donating in someone's name as a Christmas present. Donations can be made here.
**Note: I checked, and these folks are down as a 501(c)3 organization which I believe qualifies for a bunch of employer matching programs if those are available.
2. Donate material goods-- clothing, toiletries, non-perishables, etc.
USPS to:
Pretty Bird Woman House
P.O. Box 596
McLaughlin, SD 57642
or FedEx, UPS, DHL ship to:
Pretty Bird Woman House
302 Sale Barn Rd.
McLaughlin SD 57642
3. Spread this meme.
Active, reservist and retired military will be admitted free this weekend upon presentation of their military ID.
Please spread the word!
http://www.varf.org/
Please spread the word!
http://www.varf.org/
HPV - Raise awareness for FREE
Jun. 5th, 2006 11:24 amPharmaceutical companies that are working on the vaccine are trying to raise awareness - if a vaccine is approved (going before the FDA in a month????), and young people are vaccinated, it can make a huge difference in women's lives.
Merck is running a campaign where if you order a FREE bracelet on their site they will donate $1 to the cause, up to 100,000. Order one even if you don't plan to wear it - there's no cost to you and it takes 2 minutes.
