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Word of advice to people planning to donate to a food bank: Don't donate corn or green beans. Everybody donates corn and green beans. The corn and green beans will EAT EVERYTHING ELSE.

Another word of advice: Don't donate frozen food unless you're a hundred percent confident that it will go from your hands straight into a freezer. Otherwise it will sit and thaw and have to be thrown out.

Attention, manufacturers of canned and packaged goods: Put the expiration date on the item. Somewhere obvious, ideally, but as long as it's on there for anyone who doesn't know your codes to read, it's good.

Threadneedle Street

Title: Threadneedle Street
Rating: R
Summary: The Player helps the Struggling Artist achieve greater heights of daring.
Pairings: [Female] Player/Struggling Artist
Warnings: None.
Word Count: 430

( by my life, this is my lady's hand )

Community 3x08

"The Dean is a genius. He has to be. If he isn't, I've given almost two weeks of my life to an idiot. That is unacceptable. Therefore the Dean is a genius."

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At Affairs Magazine: an open letter to TV execs and PTBs everywhere concerning Becky Rosen and Jane Averagefan.

Thank you to everyone who participated in my Supernatural fandom demographics survey. I didn't get as much data as I would have liked, especially since I completely forgot about the sexual orientation question, but thank you.

I'm bored. Have a meme. (Homework? What means this 'homework'?)

Choose a number and ask me…


01. My sexual orientation.
02. What I'm really bad at.
03. The one person whose arms I'd like to be in.
04. My best first date.
05. A description of my self-esteem.
06. Who my best friends are.
07. My favorite book.
08. Biggest turn-offs.
09. A description of my best friend.
10. My favorite animal.
11. Someone I miss.
12. The reason behind my last break-up.
13. What I did yesterday.
14. My greatest achievements.
15. My favorite songs right now.
16. A description of my last kiss.
17. What I find attractive.
18. All of the pets I've ever owned.
19. My favorite ice cream flavor.
20. The one place I wish I was right now.
21. The most cruel thing anyone has ever said to me.
22. All of the places I've lived.
23. Qualities that make me more likely to love a person.
24. My future plans.
25. One of my internal conflicts.
26. What I'm doing tomorrow.
27. My life's aspirations.
28. My most embarrassing moment.
29. Two of my insecurities.
30. What I would do if I won the lottery.
31. What I love most about myself.
32. My biggest pet peeves.
33. What musical artists I've seen live.
34. How many kids I would like to have.
35. My idea of a perfect date.
36. What I'm really excellent at.
37. My most traumatic experience.
38. Where I would like to live.
39. The nicest thing anyone's ever said to me.
40. Whether I like where I live now.
41. What I can hear right now.
42. My relationship with my siblings.
43. What's currently worrying me the most.
44. Something I've repeatedly wished for.
45. My relationship with my parents.
46. What I dislike most about myself.

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My sister, the one who's officially helping out with Sunday school but is unofficially teaching the class, is assembling a great many Advent garlands. Strips of paper with instructions on them, stapled into interlocking loops, and the kid removes one loop per day and follows the instruction. Clean your room without being told. Help your parents with the dishes. That sort of thing. And one of the instructions is 'pray for the homeless'.

Uh, sister? Sister's students? Hi, I'd like to introduce you to my UU congregation's pet project: the local interfaith men's shelter. They're looking for groups of four to cook dinner for forty several nights of the week between Christmas and New Year's, and they're looking for donated food to be cooked, and they're probably looking for new socks (because when are homeless shelters not looking for socks), and and and. And it being an interfaith shelter, the last thing they're going to do is turn up their nose at donations from Catholics.

Know what's not actually going to keep those men from being hungry and having chilly feet? Prayer without action.