Joss accepting the Ray Bradbury Award for excellence in screenwriting from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. (There is video.)

Seattle F2F 2009 info

Hotel info has been released into the F2F thread! Please go there, get the hotel booking number, and join us in June!

NYistas!

It's the Sunnydale High School Class of 1999 10 Year Reunion: [link]

My landlord has told me that I'm very resourceful. So, in an attempt to be resourceful, prove him right, and finish paying this month's rent (and the deductible for my car accident), I'm listing some of my favorite things on Ebay. I'm letting you all know about them because I thought you may be interested in some of them. So far, I have three Buffy items listed--a framed Once More With Feeling poster, Drusilla action figure, and the Once More With Feeling Variety magazine with DVD. A list of my listings can be found here: [link]

As the evening goes on, I will be adding fabric and yarn. Please go check out the auctions. Bid early and bid often!

I will also be selling some quilts with personalized fairy tales. I'll post when that information is ready.

In all seriousness, I feel pathetic putting this out there, but I really do need the money, and I'm sick of asking people for loans. So, instead, I'm going to sell all my stuff! So, please buy it!

My husband, a librarian, received a pay cut yesterday. It could get worse, so when I received this from the library, I thought I'd share it with you guys since we're a lot of crazy readers. The gist of the letter:

Please contact your Senators and ask them to sign the "Dear Colleague" letter being circulated by Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME) in support of funding for the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) and the Improving Literacy Through School Libraries Program.

The deadline has been extended to May 14, 2009 for the "Dear Colleague" letter being circulated by Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME) in support of funding for the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) and the Improving Literacy Through School Libraries Program.

As of Friday May 1, we only have 13 signatures on the letter. Last year we had 47 signatures. This is a tough budget year. After passing the stimulus package, only a select few programs will receive an increase in FY 2010. LSTA and the Improving Literacy Through School Libraries Program are in serious danger of receiving level funding, or possibly even a cuts, if we don't have 60 signatures on the letter. Please contact your Senator NOW!

If you're interested, the entire letter is at this link, with a form letter below it for you to send to your senator.

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A new post up on my blog entitled "Community." Check it out if you are so inclined.

Living Without A God

So, as promised, I've finally got my quilts up on ebay.

Zig Zag Quilt (Completed): [link]

Quilt that you get to customize: [link]

This is a shorter, five-day auction. Go! Bid!

This month's column in the Stevens Point Journal.

My Latest on Grist: Waxman-Markey: bill would do more for climate without cap-and-trade provision. Should be called Jekyll-Hyde

So...we have a bunch of DVDs that need homes. The catch is that none of them have cases because said cases have been destroyed by a certain cat who is currently On the List. ND decided to take this opportunity to replace some of the DVDs with updated versions or BlueRays, so we now have duplicates. Fear not--the movies themselves are perfectly good. If you would like to adopt one or more of these poor, case-less movies, drop me an email at my profile addy and I will put them together into generic disk sleeves and mail them to you.

First come, first serve--and if you want 'em all, that's even better because I can just mail them all at once.

The localistas move fast! Kat and Sean have claimed 'em. Thanks!