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We're on Day Four of the fangirl_tour, and things are coming along nicely. I posted my entry today, and it can be found here. I once again used fanart as dividers in between recs (I'm not the only one to have done so), so there are a dozen artists featured there, too. Severus/Hermione got the lion's share of my recs because that's what I read most often, but there's some other stuff in there, including Jeeves and Wooster, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Star Trek (reboot), and Quantum Leap. A few are crossovers.

Tomorrow, the U. S. Postal Service is holding its annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive. I'm glad a neighbor already had cans of food by the front of the building when I went to get my mail this evening, or I would have forgotten about it! And that's all I have to do: just put some cans or boxes of food in a plastic bag and leave it for the mail carrier to pick up tomorrow. How easy is that? (I have some boxes as well as cans, so the plastic bag is by my front door; I don't want that stuff out in the damp night air.)

Finally! A fundraising walk on a Saturday instead of a Sunday!

http://www.teamspiritonline.org/

From their website: Come join Team Spirit and friends for this annual 10K walk!

2009 marks our 10th Anniversary of the Team Spirit Breast & Ovarian Cancer 10K Walk and again promises to be the premier walking event in the Long Beach community. Enjoy the scenic route, which winds through beautiful Naples Island, Belmont Shore and the Peninsula boardwalk, offering walkers and volunteers alike the opportunity to enjoy a first class fundraising event in one of the most picturesque settings in Southern California.

100% of the donations will go to the Memorial Medical Center Foundation to fund support groups, treatment and clinical research at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center.

I've been telling myself I need to sign up for one of these things so I have to force myself to get into better shape. My morning walks are going okay (even though I'm bored), but progress is slower than I imagined it would be. But I certainly ought to be able to manage six miles at a brisk pace by the end of September.

Anyone local is welcome to join my team (that I haven't started yet). I'll be registering myself when I get paid on Friday. *sheepish grin*

On an only-slightly-related note, does anyone know where I can find some good walking/breast cancer/ovarian cancer/tennis shoe icons for LJ? Cleese will do for now, but if you have recs, please let me know!

Remember that May 25 is not only Towel Day, but it is also Nerd Pride Day. Always know where your towel is!

At the moment, I have six graphite pencils and two cardboard blenders in my hair, the dishes are dirty, I have a movie on a continuous loop, and half a dozen reference photos are taped to the living room wall.

You all know what that means.

Edit: Here's the finished product:


Mesmerized by ~Keladry-Lupin on deviantART

Sunday is Towel Day.

"A towel, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very, very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

"More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with."

May 25th also happens to be Nerd Pride Day, though it has its origins in Spain -- doesn't seem to have made its way across the Pond yet.

My boss sent this along. If you're living in the US, FYI:

Beginning February 17, 2009 your analog tv will no longer receive broadcast signals as tv will only be broadcast on digital frequencies. Your choices are:

1) Use cable or satellite to receive your signal

2) Purchase a digital tv and throw away your existing analog tv

3) Purchase a TV Converter Box

To make it less expensive the Feds are issuing coupons (up to 2 per household) which will reduce the cost, but they won't be free. The website is https://www.dtv2009.gov/ where they discuss your options and let you register for the coupons. Even if you have cable or satellite tv, you'll still able to register to get the coupons. Coupons will be mailed in February or March and boxes will be available sometime after that, but coupons are only good for 90 days from the date of mailing.

I recommend if you are receiving free tv, you look at this website sooner rather than later as I assume there is a limit to the number of coupons. It's likely that by next December, the boxes will be in short supply.