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jadasc, a wish list meme
1. Make a post — public, friends-locked, filtered... whatever you're comfortable with — to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fun ("I'd love an Elan/Sabine icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for x on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is to 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 e-mail address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you. [My LiveJournal e-mail will serve.] Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ, or link to a public post so that the holiday joy will spread.
2. Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or random journals) to see who has posted their list.
3. 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, or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free... 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, and to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not; it's your call.
1. Get accepted at NESA to start this fall. If you didn't know I want to become an acupuncturist, you're a new friend or haven't been paying attention ;P. If you didn't know I want to go to NESA specifically because they have a research department devoted to clinical studies of the efficacy and MoA of chinese medicine, now you do. I hope I get in!
2. Be able to stay at my current job part-time and/or find a good part-time job (enjoyable and pays well) once I start school. I want to be a poor grad student rather than a starving one.
3. The Nintendo Wii. I've watched Nintendo try again and again to give us a more interactive gaming experience and it looks like they might have actually succeeded this time. Plus games that people are really liking and access to old games that I adore, this console is defintiely the one to have of the recent generation.
4. World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade. Hello, my name is Brynn, and I'm addicted to WoW.
5. A clean and properly set-up bedroom. These things are interconnected - the fact that my room is set up in a poor fashion results in it being mess, but as long as it's messy I can't change the set-up. Help! I'm stuck in a Catch-22 and can't get out!
6. A modern Triumph Thunderbird. Dude, it has a tach! I at least want to sit on one to see if it feels as good as the Bonneville does, and if I could compare the Sport to the standard model I'd be a very happy camper. Lots of pics at this French language website.
7. Chinese philosophy/cultural comprehension books. I want to have a solid foundation in chinese culture when I start to study acupuncture. Therefore suggestions for books to read and/or people to talk to who wouldn't mind my n00bishness would be awesome.
8. Positivity. There's a lot of negativity in many things that I hear and see amongst my friends and from myself and it's getting me down. I know snark keeps us warm through the winter, but please give me silver linings and rainbows in rainstorms if your days aren't sunny. I'll be trying to do the same.
9. Jobs for my jobless friends. I'm thinking of Skaven (computer support tech) andwsmith (general computer stuff) in particular, but I would love for all of my friends who currently have no employ or underemployment to gain enjoyable well-paying worthy jobs.
10. Good Bluegrass Tunes. I'm so new to this genre that I don't even know where to begin with gathering a collection of it. I particularly enjoy instrumentals and tales told in music, but I dislike country-style downers.
jadasc, a wish list meme1. Make a post — public, friends-locked, filtered... whatever you're comfortable with — to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fun ("I'd love an Elan/Sabine icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for x on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is to 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 e-mail address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you. [My LiveJournal e-mail will serve.] Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ, or link to a public post so that the holiday joy will spread.
2. Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or random journals) to see who has posted their list.
3. 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, or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free... 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, and to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not; it's your call.
1. Get accepted at NESA to start this fall. If you didn't know I want to become an acupuncturist, you're a new friend or haven't been paying attention ;P. If you didn't know I want to go to NESA specifically because they have a research department devoted to clinical studies of the efficacy and MoA of chinese medicine, now you do. I hope I get in!
2. Be able to stay at my current job part-time and/or find a good part-time job (enjoyable and pays well) once I start school. I want to be a poor grad student rather than a starving one.
3. The Nintendo Wii. I've watched Nintendo try again and again to give us a more interactive gaming experience and it looks like they might have actually succeeded this time. Plus games that people are really liking and access to old games that I adore, this console is defintiely the one to have of the recent generation.
4. World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade. Hello, my name is Brynn, and I'm addicted to WoW.
5. A clean and properly set-up bedroom. These things are interconnected - the fact that my room is set up in a poor fashion results in it being mess, but as long as it's messy I can't change the set-up. Help! I'm stuck in a Catch-22 and can't get out!
6. A modern Triumph Thunderbird. Dude, it has a tach! I at least want to sit on one to see if it feels as good as the Bonneville does, and if I could compare the Sport to the standard model I'd be a very happy camper. Lots of pics at this French language website.
7. Chinese philosophy/cultural comprehension books. I want to have a solid foundation in chinese culture when I start to study acupuncture. Therefore suggestions for books to read and/or people to talk to who wouldn't mind my n00bishness would be awesome.
8. Positivity. There's a lot of negativity in many things that I hear and see amongst my friends and from myself and it's getting me down. I know snark keeps us warm through the winter, but please give me silver linings and rainbows in rainstorms if your days aren't sunny. I'll be trying to do the same.
9. Jobs for my jobless friends. I'm thinking of Skaven (computer support tech) and
wsmith (general computer stuff) in particular, but I would love for all of my friends who currently have no employ or underemployment to gain enjoyable well-paying worthy jobs.10. Good Bluegrass Tunes. I'm so new to this genre that I don't even know where to begin with gathering a collection of it. I particularly enjoy instrumentals and tales told in music, but I dislike country-style downers.
