I swear, this journal feels very 'please give money' lately... I never really planned on doing all this fundraising. I'm sure your regularly scheduled content will resume shortly.

[The OTW is having another fundraising drive] from now until March 15. I like the OTW. I still want a sticker... (does anyone who wants just the iron-on want to go ( Read more... )

Old business:
The auctions at helptheproject close on March 1, 12:01 AM one minute after midnight Pacific Time, 2010 (GMT: 08:01:00 Monday March 1, 2010). My two things on auction there are:

• [ A box of things from where Fish lives.] (current bid: 30 USD)
• [ Postcards sent once a month for a year,] mostly focusing on slice-of-life-here-where-Fish-lives. (current bid ( Read more... )

begin quote savetheproject is a fandom auction to benefit [The Virginia Avenue Project], a free afterschool arts and academics program. 100% of participating children graduate from high school. 95% go on to college. 98% of those are the first person in their family to go ( Read more... )

Here's a quick read. It's a Red Cross blog post on why money is useful to donate and why donating physical goods is actually not helpful, in the case of these large international disasters. [Help, not hinder, Haiti] I'd known some of this before, but not all. It's interesting reading. So keep the physical donations going to a local disaster or just ( Read more... )

There was an earthquake and it wasn't pretty. And so, fen, doing what fen so often do, decided that a fanworks auction (help-haiti) was the thing to do. I can only do so much to help with my own pocket book, so I'm hoping to encourage someone else to donate as well.

[ My link at the help-haiti commI'm offering up a rec set to prompter's specifications! ( Read more... )

Dear Fandom,

You are constantly filled with awesome and I wish to do it allallallall! For it is all awesome! And yet, as I am a fish of limited means, I can only do so much! This saddens me. :(

Love despite it all,

Fish
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Which is to say, there's another fest running that is relevant to my interests and quite possibly relevant to ( Read more... )

Signal-boosting yet another fest ( Read more... )

( How did this get so long? )

I'm working on getting caught up with the flist, but in the meantime, here's a tea-party!


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