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a possibly premature eulogy for a 501(c)
In 2009, I started volunteering with an organization called Radio Information Service. It's been around since 1976; it started tiny, got huge, gotten smaller again, and now, well. We just shut our doors, possibly for the final time; we've danced on the brink before, but it looks like this is really it.
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very sad news - please pass to any who might be concerned
I am a huge ball of twenty different emotions at once, most of them complicated, messy, and sad. But I'm going to try like hell to keep this post just to the important update info side of things, and save the rambling for later when there isn't terrible news that I need to share.
sisterpandora / musicforcylons / Ely passed away yesterday. From what I understand, there was a ( Read more... ) -
RP Meme!
I should be doing twenty other things right now. Instead, I'm posting this. And then, I'm going to go do the things on my To-Do List before I let myself come back and answer.
Swiped from everyone, ever, on my flist. Give me a name of a character I've played, past or present, and I will tell yooooooou ...
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an actual non-update from me: prayer/karma/etc request
I haven't updated in ages. I keep meaning to -- I even wrote up a post, in Notepad, for the Fourth of July -- and then I worry about the fact that I haven't posted in ages, and I feel like I need to post first and apologize for that and general organization like that, and it never happens. So I suppose it's only fitting that I'm finally posting ( Read more... ) -
updates, buy one get one free (several, v. long, you were warned)
I meant to post this yesterday ( Read more... ) -
prayer request - pregnant cousin with difficulties
If you're someone who prays and you're okay with praying for others that you don't know, then I'd like to ask if you could please pray for my cousin Valerie. (das_uber_chin: cousin on the other side ( Read more... ) -
squeakytoy
There is a three-month-old stray kitten living in my downstairs half-bath ( Read more... ) -
PSA - Dell Laptop Batteries
If you have a Dell laptop, go here ASAP.
Certain batteries are catching ON FIRE. If you enter your battery info, they can tell you whether you need a replacement or not.
My apologies if you've heard this 20 times already. I'm posting this because sashenka posted it on fandom_lounge over on JF, and that's how I saw it - somehow, I missed it in the news ( Read more... ) -
words, words, words*
(*Hamlet.)When I was eight years old, I wrote a report on Saturn for school. I cited everything properly, but I also lifted one of the phrases from the encyclopedia. Four or five words, max ( Read more... )