"SECONDS TO SPARE"

I've been nominated for a Million Writers Award by Monkeybicycle for my piece "Feet In Socks".

Panels, readings and speakers will be announced this week for Pilcrow Lit Fest.

Please help this lady meet her fundraising goal for the Komen Race for the Cure in San Antonio.

I found a new apartment, mere blocks from my current one, and it's a serious upgrade and I couldn't be more excited.

That's what I know tonight.

"THEN I'LL TELL YOU THE STORY OF MY LIFE"

Hello, hello! How is everyone? I'm doing really well, myself. Clearing out some stuff on Freecycle and Craigslist. Love it. So liberating to unburden yourself of your tzotch, whether you're selling it off or giving it away. Bliss either way.

My BoSox (default team after the cubs) are making my heart hurt. (Ohh, wait, as soon as I wrote that, they got 2 runs. Okay, uh, THE BOSOX ARE MAKING MY HEART HURT!) I'm working on an article about Peru, and a review for New City Chicago. Greenpeace sayeth the iPhone is a toxic mess. That's about all I know, tonight. I think I might pull an old lady and go to bed early. I'm so tired. Maybe bring a book and a cup of tea. Ah, now that sounds really great.

So, youse know the drill by now...

Click to donate mammography for free. See how easy I make things for you? Also, don't forget that you can make The Breast Cancer Site your homepage (and click through to their other sponsor-funded sites), and you can sign up to receive email reminds to click-- the link lands in your inbox every morning so you can click every day, all year. So easy to be so menschy. Today's buy to support breast cancer comes courtesy of Ma Sparkypoo-- QVC is doing a fab shoe du jour thing and donating to these cancer organizations. (Thanks for the tip, Ma Sparkypoo.)

Oh, and before I forget-- we only need $910 more to reach the $2,500 goal for the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer event that takes place this Sunday, October 21st. How exciting to see it all so near! if you are waiting to donate-- now is the time with only days to go!

"HAVE THE PLEASURE OF MEANING WHAT YOU SING"

While it is impossible to agree with everything another human being ever says in this life, sometimes, you have to admit that regardless of what is being said, whatever it is you are hearing at the moment is ballsy just because being said. In English. There are some real hard-ass people in the public eye who I think are full of shit, uninformed dolts, and there are some I mostly agree with except for a few topics... but in any case, I admire them for speaking up and not being afriad to bitch, I mean really bitch, when things don't add up. Also, there are some people who, while I might not agree with all they have to say every time they speak, I must commend just for speaking up and saying the things polite society is too terrified to say.

So, without getting into the specifics of the ways I did and did not agree with her, columnist Molly Ivins has sadly lost in the matter of breast cancer.

Whatever you thought about her, one must admit that she at least was a mouthy broad with a decent shot of chutzpah. While at times, I agreed with her, sometimes I did not, but I did always hold a certain amount of respect for a woman that monumentally pissed off about the Ol' Boys Club. I have to give her that.

So, now is as good of an occasion as any. Take a moment and click through to The Breast Cancer Site, give yourself some education on the subject (because, let's face it, if you have boobs, breast cancer is your problem. If you love someone with boobs, breast cancer is your problem, too.), get yourself signed up for a Susan G. Komen event, and, for crying out loud, nobody digs mammography, but do it anyway. Even for free if you can't afford it.