As some of you know, I went to Joplin yesterday to help with storm cleanup.  It's only an hour's drive away, and when we first got news that the storm hit last sunday night, enough of us have friends and family there affected by what happened that it was just a little too close to home for us to sit back and watch.  So a group of 20 of us got ( Read more... )

Since I'm bored at work, I'm stealing a meme from rogueslayer452 .  HUZZAH!

Ask me a fandom-related question in the comments. This can be fandom specific, general, or about fandom/lj stuff/fic writing/etc. in general. Questions can be as wacky as you want. Ask me about tv shows, characters, fanfic, fandom issues/meta, anything about any of my stories specifically ( Read more... )

I hope all you Aussies on my flist are staying safe.  I don't know where exactly you each live, but I know you're down there, and I want you to please not wash away on me, okay?!

If anyone wants to donate to the flood relief efforts, there's a great website to do so HERE (thanks to dweediecat for the link).

And I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately.  The thing is I actually don’t hate her at all.  Quite the contrary.  I like her, or...rather, I like what she could have become, and what we were given glimpses of...But we weren’t given the chance to know her.  And we weren’t supposed to know her.  Which is the mistake the show made by dragging her ( Read more... )

I've been contemplating what to say.  For days.  For days, I've been attempting for formulate the exact thing I wanted to say, and still nothing seems good enough; nothing seems right; nothing seems strong enough or passionate enough or poetic enough to convey what needs to be said.

I don't pretend to know what I'm talking about.  Because I don't ( Read more... )

The disappearance, and now death of Andrew Koenig is bothering me an immense amount.  I'm not usually affected so much by these things, but this has been weighing on me so heavily the past few days, and now to hear he's been found dead is so intensely heartbreaking I can't stand it.  My thoughts truly go out to his friends and family.  I know he'll ( Read more... )

Q'orianka Kilcher speaks out for Haiti.

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Only one other time in my life have I felt so utterly insignificant and helpless, yet so intimately connected to the thread of humanity, and that was the day I found out about the genocide in Darfur (I cried myself to sleep that night).

Today, it's the disaster in Haiti.

I wish I had something really poignant to say here, but I don't.  All I can ( Read more... )