Pencils, Notebooks and Brownies

[sreddous]

CALLING ALL HOMIES WHO ARE GOING TO METROCON AND OTAKON. THIS IS TREMENDOUSLY IMPORTANT:

STINKULOUSREDDOUS WANTS YOU

…to give her stuff.


My mom is working with a charity at the high school where she teaches. A pastor who is trying to rebuild schools in Haiti: [link] after the earthquake six months ago is desperate for school supplies: merely, regular three-ring or pocket folders, pencil pouches, binders, pencils (mechanical or not), rulers, markers, crayons, colored pencils, calculators, pens, glue, composition books, notepads, highlighters, printer paper, loose-leaf paper, white-out, spiral notebooks- you name it; if you use it in a classroom, this man wants to ship it overseas to the schools that he’s helping fund.
These schoolchildren, he says, literally have nothing- they want wholly to be able to go back to school, but the schools can’t provide any materials for them, and they have no means of getting materials, themselves.

So, I ask bequest of all of my con-going home dawgs: do you guys have any extra school supplies lying around that you would be willing to bring to Otakon or Metrocon and give to me? I don’t care if the items are used, as long as they’re still in pretty good shape (like, pencils can be sharpened, but still be a fairly large, functional size, or whatever- these people aren’t picky, you know; my mom’s partner is very grateful for anything).

Anyone who brings me anything at Otakon or Metrocon in return will receive:

A BAGGIE THAT CONTAINS A HOME-MADE BROWNIE.




Trust me: you want this.
My homemade brownies have a 100% satisfaction rate with a 99.99% chance of you wanting another one. In high school, they were solely responsible for me being able to attract three of the boys that I dated (that’s a big deal: I’m exceedingly insufferable in relationships; and, normally, boys don’t come within a 50-mile radius of me); since then, I have developed tons of recipes full of candies and mints and chocolate chips and, essentially, anything that you can possibly dream up when it comes to baked goods. I generally fill even the space between the atoms that make up my brownies with more chocolate. A packet of loose-leaf paper is a tiny price to pay for a Legendary Happy-Reporter-Kaiba Brownie.


I greatly appreciate any help that you guys are willing to give. I hope you know what wonderful things you would be doing for the futures of these children who need the hope and encouragement. I’m more than thrilled to bake rewards for you all, too; I hope that you poor, starving, don’t-have-enough-time-or-money-to-eat-during-the-convention-weekend congoers enjoy my brownies at least a third as much as these children will enjoy your pencils and folders.