Eredien's Journal

I need people to help me put my stuff in boxes this Sunday night, and Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday (all during the day), in preparation for my move back to Central NY. If you can help, please contact me via email at cphillips.sears@gmail.com. I would really appreciate the help, as I am bad at moving and it goes much better and faster with friends' hands to help.

So I am trying to ask for moving help loudly and often, and be clear about what I need.

Tomorrow evening, and during the day on Monday, Tuesday, and possibly part of Wednesday, I will be packing. I would really appreciate help:
a.) Putting objects into boxes
b.) Taping filled boxes shut
c.) Labelling boxes exhaustively with a sharpie.
d.) Moving boxes into a staging area on the first floor of the apartment

If you do volunteer to assist, I will try and have some water, etc., but I will not be emotionally, financially, or physically able to provide meals for you, and I will be concentrating on packing rather than on talking or socializing. Indeed, I want to pack quickly so I have more time for socializing.

Loading the truck will happen on Saturday. I would also appreciate help for that, but for me the large and overwhelming-feeling task is packing.

Please email me at cphillips.sears@gmail.com if you are able to help.
Thanks.

( Some background--why I'm scared of moving: )

I've had a hard time getting over all of that--there's been a lot--and now I'm moving again, back in with my family, to try and get financially back on my feet.

I'm less scared of moving than I was--I've done it too much, and gotten rid of a lot of my possessions because the memories associated with them meant too much or too little and weren't helping me move forward--but I would still like help.

Thanks. Please email cphillips.sears@gmail.com if you can help.

To celebrate my moving into a new place, there will be a hosewarming party from 7-9 pm on 8/8/2011! It is in Medford.

Please RSVP by Saturday night so I can tell my roommate J. how much spaghetti to make.

You can email me at cphillips.sears@gmail.com (my personal email is still MIA) or call me to get the address, if you can't see the friendslocked post with the address which I just posted.

Thanks!

When I moved here I was pretty happy that there were 2 porches (1 front and 1 back).

But there is actually only 1. I tried to go out onto the front porch yesterday to pick up the deck chairs that had fallen down during the winter, and found out from my roommate that the front porch door is actually nailed shut because the front porch is structurally unstable and the landlord doesn't care about fixing it; he just doesn't want people to go out there and fall down and get sued.

Meet the new Somerville apartment, same as the old Somerville apartment, I guess.

So, I'm in the process of moving into my new place right now. I'm also in the process, unfortunately, of getting rather violently ill. I thought that if I took it easy yesterday my cough might not develop into a fullblown sore throat/cough of death, but I thought wrong. Eight hours' sleep and lots of tea hasn't helped, and I feel like crap. It would really be awesome if some folks would be willing to pitch in to help me move some of my stuff. I do have the loan of a car for the week, but I want to get it back to lutris by Friday. I'd be happy to feed you.

Basically, I need help, so I figure there's no shame in asking for it. Give me a call, as I'll be away from my computer for most of the day, moving my stuff from storage in Cambridge or lugging it up the stairs.

Edit: the heat went off sometime last night, so my roommate and I woke up to a frigid 50ish degrees. The heat's still out. The heat company is apparently sending somebody over to fix it, but I am guessing that is part of why my cold got worse instead of better. Thankfully, the hot water is a separate system...

The recipe for Tropic Sunset Peach Bread Pudding is up.

The rest of this post consists of three questions, two of which are for Boston-area or potential Boston-area people, and one of which is about clothing. Boston-area questions first:

- Does anybody have a space where they could take in a cat for a month or two? I'm hoping to get at least a part-time job soon, and have had an interview lined up for two weeks now which I am really hopeful about, but due to crazy circumstances that interview has been rescheduled twice--instead of knowing if I'm going to get this job, I've been on tenterhooks. I don't know when I'm going to be able to get an apartment of my own, and the current situation with Oolong is temporary. I'd pay for food, litter, any vet bills, etc, and come by to see her every other week or so. I'd hoped to have an apartment by now, and I've been in talks with realtors and job people, but it's been slow going. There's no lack of non-paying volunteer opportunities, and there's no lack of administrative positions, but I know I'm no good at doing that particular task-set and need something else to be happy; I'm not really willing to compromise my job-related happiness at this point since it looks like my job is going to be the biggest part of my life for a good while, and it's important for me to get this right, and as soon as possible.

- Is anyone in the Boston area (or anyone interested in moving to the Boston area) interested in splitting an apartment with me? I don't drink at all right now but am generally a fan of liquor, don't smoke but don't care if you smoke outside, and am looking for a place where I can have my cat and a lizard. I'm not interested in living with dogs or other csts, and Oolong is probably not a safe bet for birds, but other pets would probably be fine. I am thinking maybe I would like to live in the Teele Sq area or up near Alewife, or maybe real close to the Camberville border in Arlington. I don't have a car and don't plan on getting one. I plan on setting up a mini artstudio space for making and selling my artwork, wherever I end up. I'm LGTBQ, poly, and generally alternative-lifestyle-friendly. I am interested in cooking and gardening and would be happy with a farmshare or actually growing some food outside or inside. I'm vegan. Another vegan or vegetarian roommate would be ideal, but I'm happy to live with meat-eaters. I'm hoping to find a kind of quiet place to relax most of the time, but the occasional loud and noisy party is great. I kind of hope to host a big friendly dinner/movie night once a week or maybe once a month, and enjoy actually knowing and liking my roommates instead of just kind of passing each other in the hallway.Video gaming, RPGing, anime, music, artistic creation, writing, cooking, general nerdliness, graduate school, etc. are also neat.

If interested, or have questions, please email me, call or text, or private message me on lj. Or you can just leave a comment here and I will get in touch with you.

- For genderqueer, queer, transgender, gender-head people, people who aren't satisfied with what "men's clothing" and "women's clothing" is, and other kinds of people who were interested in the clothing marketplace idea that I posted about a while back--it looks like the Genderplayful Marketplace is raising itself up by its black and purple pleather boostraps. I'd like to sell clothing and accessories there. I already have some ideas for shirts, pants, etc, maybe some accessories. I'd like to do a dress with a built-in tie/vest top, for instance. Does anybody have any suggestions of anything they'd really like to see in that space? I'd love to actually, you know, create what you want and what I want, and market it to you.

The Indianapolis Farmers' Market vendor "Just Cookies" just won't make cookies for gay IU students. Fun fact: the cookie order was eventually placed with the "Flying Cupcake" bakery on, get this, Massachusetts Ave.

I would have volunteered to make them cookies. In fact, here, here's two cookies. Pass them around, folks:









Quote from the article by the local Fox affilate: IUPUI's spokesperson said the school has no formal complaint against the bakery and added embracing diversity means allowing the business owners the right to their opinion and the right to choose how to serve its customers, as long as those customers are not discriminated against.

I think this is an interesting question. When you are running a food-related business and choose not to serve someone because, "We have our values, and you know, some things ... for instance, if someone wants a cookie with an obscenity, well, we're not going to do that," when does choosing not to serve someone because you disagree with who the person is once they have told you become discrimination, and when does that become a business owner simply turning away a customer? Can it, legally, be treated as discrimination? I mean, it seems to me like the customers are being discriminated against by the act of not being served, because they likely would have been served if they had not identified themselves as queer, or had lied and said they wanted the cookies for some other event. Any lawyers want to clear this up?

I wonder how many queer students Just Cookies unknowingly served because they didn't know they were gay; there's evidence they served at least one queer student previously (unknown to them). I bet they won't get many now.

Oh, and Indiana was one of the states to file an amicus brief against same-sex marriage in the prop 8 appeal in CA.

...I can't believe I still want to move back.