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Well, I managed to completely mix up today and tomorrow's schedules and the meeting I thought I had this morning isn't until tomorrow. Um, yay?

Link roundup:

RaceFail '09 is going in for yet another epic bout of fail (link roundup at

rydra_wong if you're morbidly curious), but a suggestion by

coffeeandink prompted

troubleinchina to ~~create~~ promote (see comments) Team Fandom over at Kiva.org, which I've joined. Kiva is a charity that organizes micro-loans for people in developing countries. If you join, you can find an entrepreneur with a project to donate towards (in $25 increments, Paypal accepted), and then over the months they pay it back. As they pay it back, you get the money back into your Kiva account, where you can either withdraw it or loan it out again. I like loaning to women, and to residents of Tanzania, because I used to live there, so two of my three active loans are to Tanzanian women.

ciderpress is calling for submissions to the first Asian Women Blog Carnival.

Deadline is March 16th, but Beacon Press is planning a graphic-novel adaptation of OCtavia Butler's Kindred, and is seeking an illustrator.

A Dalek was found in a pond in Hampshire.

And I got my GINORMOUS BOOK ORDER FROM AMAZON yesterday. If I get around to it, I may post the titles which, as usual, are mostly not the books that were recced to me. (But I do have a lot of those on my wishlist, guys! I do appreciate the recs and those who took the time to give them to me! If I don't read them now, I may read them later, and I'll remember the titles when I see them again.)

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Oh, I didn't create team fandom!

It's been around for a while. I just wanted to promote it. :)

Edited to reflect this, thanks! :D

I love Kiva. My first two loans just started paying back, and I just made my third. XD

It sounds interesting. Thanks for mentioning it. At least something can come out of all this sound and fury aside from bile and antagonism.

There have been some Good Things going on. Thank heavens.

Thanks for telling me about Team Fandom; I've been merrily lending apace on Kiva for a few months now.

joined. Thanks for the headsup ^^

Oh, how cool! Will boost this signal when I have time in a couple days.

Thanks!