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Arisia needs you (or someone you might know)!

Who does not like free stuff?

We need someone to help us out with collecting loot for our freebie tables.

We need someone to contact various groups and organizations to collect the things they want to give away for free, usually to promote their product. We would like to be looking at both local and not so local groups for their donations.

Would you or someone you know like to volunteer for Arisia, earn a free membership, have one of our nifty t-shirts and not have to work while at the con? This could be the position!

Please email services@arisia.org if you would be interested in assisting us with this fun and vital task.

Tuesday going into wednesday. it just wasn't happening. I made cakes, and fell asleep around 7am while they cooled, to wrest myself awake for a Webex meeting at noon. Which was rescheduled to three pm. so I iced the cakes then went to sleep at 1:30 for an hour and a bit. Got up for the meeting at three, which was cancelled and rescheduled to 11:30am today. Packed the cake and went back to sleep to wrest myself awake at 7 for a game night (that started at 7, but at least I woke up, hey?).

Went there, had a good time, got beaten at Scrabble, which is good for my ego, and then went home. Despite yesterday's spotty sleep, I couldn't seem to sleep. As I said to Laurie, it wasn't even like yesterday's important things were bothering me, it was my brain streaming this sort of thing: "oh, forgot to pick up butter. wonder how those tights will fit. maybe I should see if the landlord will deal with that issue in the pantry. hey, I'm a little hungry. shouldn't eat. wish I could sleep. wonder when the arisia schedule will get done; it's running late. Oh, I should call Peter. hmm. Oh, hi, cat. What time is it? Oh, god."

I left Rob's at 1am, and was in bed until 4 when I gave up and played a tetris alike in the hope of boring myself to sleep. No good; went back to bed at 5:30 and then spent an hour and a half trying to sleep. Finally did, to be woken at 9 by the plumber, who can't find anything wrong because the drain is working since yesterday afternoon, never mind it was plugged from last Friday on and there was flooding in the basement because of it (he had very poor english, so it was frustrating for both of us).

Decided to try to get another hour of sleep before the 11:30 meeting.

You, my loyal readers, are seeing where this *has* to be heading....

I woke up at 11:07, having a partial seizure because of the lack of a good solid block of sleep over 3 hours since I woke up around 9am Tuesday.

Was fortunately able to fight it off (so I made the meeting). I'm supposed to go see The Mikado tonight, but I'm really not sure I can risk it; if I *can* fall asleep now, I need to do so and sleep until Body Says Done. Laurie's going to see about switching my comp ticket to tomorrow, bless her (if she can, does anyone want to join me?).

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Guy #1: It's too bad, 'cuz the good child actors always grow up to be terrible adult actors.
Girl #1: Not always. You have people like Drew Barrymore...
Girl #2: Or Doogie Howser.
Guy #2: Neil Patrick Harris! He has a name!

--St. John the Divine Cathedral

Overheard by: Kaitlen

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TERRE HAUTE, IN—Enrollees can enjoy all of today's hottest pharmaceutical stars at one low, low price.

incandescens has posted the next chapter to the Bleach AU that she, sophiap and I are writing. It's a bleak AU where the Gotei 13 lost the Winter War.

Nanan: Looking for a Blonde

The whole Winter War Index

At the bus stop three of the boys stuck their tongues to a basketball hoop pole, ripped 'em off, and then ran for the bus with other boys going, "Oh my gosh, you're tongue is bleeding."

Jet rolled his eyes at all the boys crowding around the flagpole and walked away before any of that happened. I don't know why or how, but I'm very, very glad that he has some kind of anti-peer pressure thing.

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I've been swimming for quite some time now, and I gotta tell you, I've seen a lot of shit in my day. I've seen orcas eat defenseless cod,...

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Adult readers say they are drawn to the 'Green Man' children's book series by the complexity of its characters ranging from yellow to blue.

kylecassidy is giving away a copy of Boneshaker to the winner of a little short story contest. details are here.... It just seemed to fit a few of the steampunk folk here. Hee.

People have complained to me that Google Docs doesn't have a "save as OpenOffice" feature. It turns out this feature was added back in October so there ya go. I must have been busy and didn't notice.

Today Google announced you can export your entire doc repository with one click: Export all your files. You get one huge ZIP file. (Up to 2G)

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MIDLAND, MI—The Dow Chemical Company has developed a new bug deterrent that, unlike harsh deet-based repellents, forces insects to realize...

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Following a bus accident in which lead singer Rivers Cuomo cracked three ribs, the band Weezer has canceled its December tour dates. What do...

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NEW YORK—Dynamic, sleek, and sexy is how a panel of typographic and marketing experts described the 15 new replacement letters they unveiled Monday in an effort to reinvigorate the faltering English alphabet.

I am filled with joy to have 18-yr-old Chiara, daughter of a college friend - Nick was a Theatre Grad student at Columbia - I was an undergrad studying with the same teacher [the great Bernard Beckerman, who taught me more about dramatic structure than I could ever have figured out on my own; I use it in every novel!] - I was volunteered as a warm body for his directing class - and he cast me as Medea! And so began a beautiful friendship that included a cross-country (Chicago>NYC) drive through snowstorm in which I was first introduced to the music of Richard Thompson on a grainy cassette tape (it was "Shoot Out the Lights" and I was writing Swordspoint, and I couldn't believe this guy had done a soundtrack for my unfinished novel! oops where was I? OK:) So I've known Chiara since she was about 1 - she seems to have gotten over the trauma of my letting her fall backwards (from a sitting position) and hit her head while I was babysitting her on her first visit (my having sent the anxious new parents off to Harvard Square for some light entertainment) . . . . . um, what? oh yes: to have Chiara spending a few days of her Gap Year with us right now. Example:

She comes into the livingroom first thing this morning to ask for our wireless password - adding very matter-of-factly, "And you're 'The Golux,' right?"

[To make that story work right, you need to know that NYC apts show a huge list of possible networks, from upstairs, downstairs, next door, across the courtyard . . . and, of course, The Thirteen Clocks.]