Oh, give me anything

Help Me Pay for Nursing School?

2013-03-30T22:02:51Z

Hey! I'm going to nursing school, but I can't get federal financial aid for spring and summer quarter due to last year's income (which doesn't help with this year). I do have a small grant coming my way that will cover half of this quarter's schooling, but that still leaves $800 to pay.

Can you spare a dollar for a poor jobless girl who is eventually going to be able to put an IV in your arm?

Anything helps!

(This feels ultra-weird to post, but I have been convinced by a few of my lovely friends that it is in fact not weird or gross, and that being helped by the people who love you when you're trying to better your life and community is the antithesis of weird. Please don't feel obligated, and if this post DOES make you feel weird or gross, please skip on by.)

That Removal Thang

2011-11-13T05:50:24Z

Hey! Hey you! Are you here because I just did a big friends list cut and you got removed? Are you worried it's personal, or that you're boring, or that I don't like you? Well let me tell you something: it's not that! I like you. Seriously. You're pretty fucking cool. But dude, you never update. Or you update sometimes, but we talk on Facebook. Or we weren't really super close (anymore? ever? please see the nature of our friendship) and I know we'll be friendly on Facebook and support each other's interests and all, but we don't really Livejournal with each other all that much.

So it's only personal in the sense that it makes MORE sense for us to stay connected via other websites, by phone or in person. How. Ev. Er. If you think I removed you by mistake, or you were JUST about to come back to Livejournal and write more often, or you have cake, comment and let me know.

2011 Horoscope

2010-12-24T23:16:24Z

Get yours here.

Humanism

2010-07-20T21:58:22Z

"About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddhist, nor a conventionally religious person of any sort.
I am a humanist, which mean, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead. My German-American ancestors, the earliest of whom settled in our Middle West about the time of our Civil War, called themselves 'Freethinkers,' which is the same sort of thing. My great grandfather Clemens Vonnegut wrote, for example, 'If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?'
I myself have written, 'If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a human being. I would just as soon be a rattlesnake.'"

-Kurt Vonnegut in God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian

Writer's Block: Rescue mission

2010-06-17T23:21:12Z

I've got ten minutes? Then I've got time to dial 911 and start trying to put the fire out.

Every. Single. One.

2010-04-15T04:48:23Z

A list of every single farmers market in the Seattle metropolitan area.

Including the islands.
And the east side.
And the north end.
And the south end. To Olympia.

There are 43 of them.

Okay, tired now.

Please tweet, stumble, digg, Facebook, something.

Because seriously, there wasn't a single TRULY comprehensive list to go off of...until now. And it kind of makes me feel like a badass.

SO WORTH IT! :D

errantly @ 2010-01-23T20:11:00

2010-01-24T04:11:33Z

"This year, I have committed more faults than ever before and I have never been a better person."

--- Victor Hugo, in a letter to Victor Pavie from July 25, 1833.

Reminder:

2010-01-13T23:40:12Z

Focus.

errantly @ 2009-11-30T22:31:00

2009-12-01T06:31:26Z

"You, my friend, are a realist, which is great, but unimaginative."

Trauma (TV)

errantly @ 2009-10-20T16:27:00

2009-10-20T23:28:32Z

Whenever I wear a skirt to work, men on the street are almost exponentially nicer to me.

Even the bums.

...especially the bums.

2009 Horoscope

2008-12-29T23:35:33Z

Considering the fact that one of my resolutions is to travel to a country I've never been to, this horoscope is really inspiring!

This Could Be Your Last

2008-11-25T21:58:01Z

These are the images that have been assailing me lately:

an unbloomed rosebud

ticking clocks

empty cups of coffee

and lengthening hair.

A study in focus, in seizing moments.

Spider Fight 2008

2008-09-10T17:09:07Z

Coming to you from Jen TV, the greatest battle of all time...

Oh, btw, I curse a lot, so use headphones if you're at work.

...okay, the visual was a LOT better pre-YouTube upload, but at least my commentary is entertaining. Also, I said "ladies" because I was talking to my LJ-community. So, add "and gentlemen" in there.

That's what I've been saying.

2008-08-08T22:13:18Z

It's me!(ez)

2008-01-30T22:16:37Z

Comment with your Meez, please. :D

errantly @ 2007-11-12T11:30:00

2007-11-12T19:31:17Z

Recent reviews by Jennifer G.

What's this?

errantly @ 2007-06-22T15:23:00

2007-06-22T22:24:15Z

I have learned that the universe works for you: everything that happens is a means to an end, and trust is acceptance of that end. Wrongs can be righted if you surround yourself with gracious, truthful people; the things you need - and want, at times - are yours when you believe they will come to you; the people that show you the way to those truths can be the least expected...even a hairstylist whose mother didn't catch her plane.

I have leaned that there is always a way. Money, time, and coincidence can come together in harmony, even if it's just getting a computer built before your password expires and a virus eats away at your writing and photos.

I have learned that heaven exists, and that sin is not what we as a Christian nation think it is. People do say goodbye, even if it's more than six years later, and guilt and memory don't have to be linked. I learned to trust my intuition, and my faith.

I have learned to follow that intuition, follow my passions. I am an inherent optimist in a pessimistic, corrupted world. I am a writer and a rebellious spirit; I like to rile people up and ignore the consequences; I like to martyr and destroy the odds. I am a journalist, and I will major in political science. I have remembered what it means to know the truth and speak my mind - I have learned that broken silence is a beautiful sound. I have leaned to remember again.

I leaned these things in a mere four days – a random period, thrown at me after the painful growth of a long Spring. Only half of that week was over, used for epiphanies and exposure to my long-forgotten elements.

We know what we are here to do, but at times we forget.

errantly @ 2007-02-20T23:12:00

2007-02-21T07:13:44Z

All the art of living lies in the fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

-Henry Ellis

errantly @ 2007-01-29T13:58:00

2007-01-29T22:05:04Z

"Do you know that I've been sitting here thinking to myself: that if I didn't believe in life, if I lost faith in the woman I love, lost faith in the order of things, were convinced in fact that everything is a disorderly, damnable, and perhaps devil-ridden chaos, if I were struck by every horror of man's disillusionment - still I should want to live."

-Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Secrets.

2006-09-22T20:34:28Z

I dare you to anonymously post a secret in these comments. Something that you've either never told anyone, or tried to tell someone and couldn't. There's no need to reveal yourself - and I won't out you.

errantly @ 2004-03-10T14:26:00

2004-03-10T14:26:10Z

just remember: evil monkeys like small children to play dice with.

The Pope:

2003-12-25T19:00:11Z

"Save us from the wars and armed conflicts which lay waste whole areas of the world, from the scourge of terrorism and from the many forms of violence which assail the weak and the vulnerable, save us from discouragement as we face the paths to peace, difficult paths indeed, yet possible and therefore necessary."

--Pope John Paul II, during a Christmas address at The Vatican

(stolen from sayaka)

Ha!

2003-12-22T12:45:49Z

"Some people are like Slinkies... not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs."

Taken from bticookie -- found in u_make_lj_funny