materialistic meme sheepage

...Well, everyone else is doing it. And some people who read this journal are my mother and will be buying me Christmas gifts anyway...

CHRISTMAS WISHLIST MEME

How it works:
Step One
- Make a post (public, friends only, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain a list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and internets-related ("I'd love a such-and-such icon that's made 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 life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where a "holiday elf" could get in touch with you.
- Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ.

Step Two
- Surf around your friends list (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--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 fairy--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.

( lists of stuff. )

that sigh of relief just now was me

OH THANK GOD, YOU GUYS. The application deadline for Emerson College is not until January 5. Thank God. I cannot express how ridiculously much I want to go to this college. It is right in the middle of Boston, overlooking the Common (which is exactly what I wanted -- not in so much detail, but still!), and when I got their informational booklets in the mail, our first week in this house, I actually started crying, because they were so exactly what I wanted. And they even sent me stickers! I mean, stickers! They have a promising film program, and encourage designing one's own course of study based on uniting one's divergent interests into a greater whole -- so my interests in writing, filmmaking, photography, music, and human rights can all fit together in ways that compliment each other. They have blocks on campus to unite people with specific interests -- so I could live on the Writers' Block, if I desired. And -- everything. The testimonies I read, the descriptions of courses, the mission statement of the school, it was all so utterly me that I nearly wept and danced at once. And it's in Boston! Within walking distance of Lots of Awesome Things.

And, hey, you know what I'm really, really craving right now? (Besides fresh chocolate chip cookies, I mean.) Awesome catchy music. Like, even intelligent pop music -- I've had Adele's "Chasing Pavements" on repeat a lot lately (thankee, last_archangel!), and Feist's radio hits make me happy (and dancey) whenever they pop up unexpectedly on shuffle, and you know what else is really catchy? Sarah Slean's "Sweet Ones". (I sing -- or mime-sing into the mirror -- nearly every time I hear it; I can't even help it). I'm really, really in need of that kind of music, the kind of music that gets stuck in your head in a fond sort of way, and makes you smile when you hear it. If you have any, that would make my night.