A few notes

1) Thanks to everyone for the hugs and encouragement and everything. I am
weepy from sadness, but also from the poignance of knowing that people
really give a shit about me and my family.

2) kightp just posted the best meme
ever, and I will be bookmarking it and any like it that I run across.
I'll also contribute when I have a few minutes.

3) Last-minute-girl is wondering if anyone wants to have lunch with me at
or near UC Berkeley today at noon (I have lunch from noon to one).

4) Tonight is spoken word in Oakland, 65th & Shattuck. I plan to read
some new stuff if I can get it out of my head quickly enough. Please come
and hang out. I'll buy you coffee/tea/whatever.

how can I get through life without knowing about stuff like this?

Lunch poems!

(I'll try to go to the rest of the season, seeing as how I work here and
all. If you ever want to join me, please do! I can't believe I missed
Ferlinghetti!)

Help request

Please read and pass around if you know people who are generous with their
books. My email address is serene@serenepages.org [Edit: That's also my
paypal account address. daltong has sweetly offered to help with
money for this project, and if you want to do that, too, I would be happy to
buy books and/or cover postage with the money.]

I work at the Disabled Students' Program office at UC Berkeley. One of
our students is going to be taking English classes this semester with the
aid of a realtime captioner. The captioner could use copies of the
textbooks for the classes, in order to look up terms and themes, but we have
no budget for buying the books and the department has refused to lend us
desk copies. (Other departments are coming through in a lovely, generous
fashion.)

Anyway, lots of the texts are novels, poems, or plays. Several of them
are available on Gutenberg, and I've bookmarked those, and I brought in
Their Eyes Were Watching God from home because I own it, but we
still need the books below. Anyone feel like lending any of the titles to
our department for the semester? I could come pick them up if you're in
the East Bay, or if you're willing to ship them here, I can give you my
address and you could either donate the shipping or I will pay for it if
it's less than the cost of buying the book. You would really be helping a
student to succeed in college, and I would pay the return shipping (book
rate) (or I could BookCross the book if you don't want it back.)

We don't need new copies/editions -- older editions are fine.

Thanks in advance!

Voices from the Edge, by O'Brien
Shape of Things, by Labute
Children of a Lesser God, by Medoff
Hospital Poems, by Ferris
Staring Back, by Fries
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot, by Callahan
Sign Me Alice & Laurent Clerk, by Eastman
Palestine, by Sacco
Norton Anthology of English Lit V. 1, by Abrams
Sovereignty & Goodness of God, by Rowlandson
Castaways, by Devaca
Yellow Woman, by Silko
Confessions of Nat Turner & Docs, by Greenberg
Brothers & Keepers, by Wideman (Thanks, leback.)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Brent
Equiano's Travels, by Equiano
American Indian Stories, by Zitkala-sa

my partners are so good to me

They have all three been incredibly patient with my family situation,
they're taking good care of me, and get this -- when I get home in an
hour, there will be spaghetti and broccoli (one of my all-time-favorite
meals). That I didn't have to cook! How cool is *that*?

(I love to cook. I also love being cooked for. Win-win, no?)

heh

In response to this ad, I wrote:

Hi,

I will not be applying for this position, because it's too far away, but I thought you might want to know that you misspelled both "proofreader" and "copywriter".

Serene