If you know anyone who could use work today and/or tomorrow in Brooklyn and/or next week in Boston, please forward the message below to them -- it would help out my friend Punzel, who is staying with us while she does the NY part of this job and had the person that she had hired fall through. I did a couple of shifts with her yesterday and had a good ( Read more... )

I think this is the first time I've been on LJ in close to three months. It's been a very busy time. On any number of occasions, I've thought to log in for a few minutes to check my friends list and then the idea seemed daunting - where would I start. I decided to wait until I had a bit more time (ha ( Read more... )

Can you punctuate the following string of words so that they make sense? I'll screen comments initially to give people a chance to get it themselves.

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From an AP article of about an hour ago titled "Cheney, others OK'd harsh interrogations ( Read more... )

Last night (Tuesday) was amazing! I'll probably elaborate later but for now I need to get some sleep.

Our Verizon cellular contract has been up for a while and I remember seeing an entry that someone posted here on LJ some time (maybe a year) ago about having negotiated much better terms based on having completed their prior contract. We're probably going to be calling in the morning to set up a new contract and increasing our family plan from two ( Read more... )

I really need to get some new photos up here. I look very different.

My friend, Beth, is at the tail end of moving and is looking to hire someone this evening for 2 to 2 1/2 hours at $20/hr to bring carpet tiles and possibly some bags of garbage (if there's time and energy after the carpet tiles) from her former Park Slope apartment down to the street (two flights of stairs). If you're interested, you can reach her ( Read more... )

The 4th annual Brooklyn Peace Fair will be happening from 11am to 5pm, this Sunday, October 22nd at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University (1 University Plaza at Flatbush and DeKalb Avenues). In addition to Legacy (we'll be on the "Justice stage" from 11:15 - 11:35 am), Sonia Sanchez, Michael Massing, Medea Benjamin (of Code Pink), Evelyn ( Read more... )

Thanks to quietchris for this very cool story ( Read more... )