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Step One
- Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 Christmas wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fun ("I'd love a Ron/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.
- If you wish for real possible things, make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.
- Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ, or link to this post (it'll be public) so that the joy will spread.
Step Two
- Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:
- If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use, do it.
You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call.
There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.
1) The meme-creator said I'm totally allowed to wish for a pony, so: omg I wish I owned a vidding-capable laptop again. So badly. So so badly.
2) While I'm on the materialism level: burned dvds of .avi episodes of any of my shows or for that matter any shows you think I should watch are like gold and substantially increase the chance that I will vid from those shows if I ever have a laptop again.
3) I kind of wish this here default icon of mine was less crappy (yet still largely similar).
4) I would love worksafe recs for any of my fandoms.
5) Postcards from where you live! Nerdmail! Any mail!
6) ... candy?
7) Stories written in any of the OTPs in my interests (which I am about to update). Audiofic of anything good by anybody.
8) Mp3s of good music, old or new. I am musically hopeless (I just now considered that possibly I might enjoy this Devo thing everyone is talking about), so chances are if you send me music I will be amazed that my headphones are making sounds and therefore love it. And you will have the bonus of making me feel less uncultured!
9) If you happen to have extra copies of Ursula Le Guin lying around, I am either looking for or trying to give other people just about everything she's written.
10) ... Okay: I am going to be looking at grad schools in various towns where I know nobody in the next few weeks/months. And I know we are hyper-protective of our real life identities on this end of the internet, but: if you live near a major university with a solid graduate program in, say, Latin American Studies and Population Health and want to tell me about your locale, or are willing to introduce me to fanpeople who live in university towns I'm looking at (which, trust me, a list is going up soon) that would be amazing.
- Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 Christmas wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fun ("I'd love a Ron/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.
- If you wish for real possible things, make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.
- Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ, or link to this post (it'll be public) so that the joy will spread.
Step Two
- Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:
- If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use, do it.
You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call.
There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.
1) The meme-creator said I'm totally allowed to wish for a pony, so: omg I wish I owned a vidding-capable laptop again. So badly. So so badly.
2) While I'm on the materialism level: burned dvds of .avi episodes of any of my shows or for that matter any shows you think I should watch are like gold and substantially increase the chance that I will vid from those shows if I ever have a laptop again.
3) I kind of wish this here default icon of mine was less crappy (yet still largely similar).
4) I would love worksafe recs for any of my fandoms.
5) Postcards from where you live! Nerdmail! Any mail!
6) ... candy?
7) Stories written in any of the OTPs in my interests (which I am about to update). Audiofic of anything good by anybody.
8) Mp3s of good music, old or new. I am musically hopeless (I just now considered that possibly I might enjoy this Devo thing everyone is talking about), so chances are if you send me music I will be amazed that my headphones are making sounds and therefore love it. And you will have the bonus of making me feel less uncultured!
9) If you happen to have extra copies of Ursula Le Guin lying around, I am either looking for or trying to give other people just about everything she's written.
10) ... Okay: I am going to be looking at grad schools in various towns where I know nobody in the next few weeks/months. And I know we are hyper-protective of our real life identities on this end of the internet, but: if you live near a major university with a solid graduate program in, say, Latin American Studies and Population Health and want to tell me about your locale, or are willing to introduce me to fanpeople who live in university towns I'm looking at (which, trust me, a list is going up soon) that would be amazing.
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latin american studies (http://students.sfu.ca/calendar/latinamericanstudiesgrad.htm)
You have till the end of January and you need 3 letters of reference.
Do you want a new hat? Or would you prefer some other crocheted item?
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I emailed the departmental secretary to ask if there's any public health / LAS overlap. Also, the LAS program has eight grad students, all of them adorable.
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I may make you a scarf, because to make a more hardcore hat I'd need better and smaller yarn and I do not have the time. Winter is your friend, I swear.
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However. (http://www.ohio.edu/graduate/deptfactsheets/latinamericanstudies.cfm) They are not that close to me. And I have been there once? And they, um, have a great marching band? I fail at selling grad schools, clearly.
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I have printed off big lists of global and population health schools and LAS schools and now I am cross-referencing like a cross-referencing thing. Meanwhile, my mother is after me to go to Johns Hopkins, which, where the heck is Johns Hopkins, besides on the planet of Huge Scary Schools? (Don't answer that, I'm totally googling right now) (I think I'm too terrified to apply anywhere whose public health school is named after someone who underwrites all of NPR. I have my quirks!)
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I think I'm too terrified to apply anywhere whose public health school is named after someone who underwrites all of NPR. I have my quirks!
That is perfectly reasonable, actually.
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