candyce's Journal

I have added a new post to the

fit_pagans group, which I am now advertising again in an effort to build up membership. Please consider joining if you're interested in getting and giving support for making positive changes. Women who have some form of social support, either through in-person counseling or an online chat group, lose more than 15 pounds over a 9-month period, dropping about 500 calories from their daily diet and walking about a mile more each day than from their starting point. This isn't a place to lecture or judge, just share.

The first new UT Pagan Student Alliance meeting will be this Wednesday, February 3rd at 7pm in the courtyard between the UGL and the Union. See you there!

SQUEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I GOT THE PROMOTION!!!!!!

Thank you so much to everyone that kept me in your thoughts... this is a HUGE opportunity for me. Not a lot more money, because it's the State, but some is better than nothing. Most importantly, it's a management position, so combined with the experience from this job and my education I will have so much better opportunities available to me. I'm the new building manager for the children's unit, and I love children, and I love the programs they're doing over there... it's going to be a big change and a harder job but I am very excited and I have very high hopes. And it's just in the nick of time, because they just instituted a hiring freeze for all of Health and Human Services in Texas and this was going to be my last opportunity for a promotion or raise. And I totally lucked out, because a lot of people put in good words for me and I was chosen over someone that has worked for the State longer than I've been alive! HURRAY!!!

PSA
I've posted the new website, email, myspace, facebook, and yahoo group info for the PSA on the utpsa LJ. I will probably not be posting much in the way of updates on my own LJ anymore, so if you're interested and you haven't added the utpsa LJ to your friends list, please do so. Thanks!

Fliering!
On Monday about 2:00pm I will be on campus to start fliering! If you'd like to help out you can meet me in the West Campus courtyard by the fountain. There will also be a website, Yahoo group, myspace, and facebook by then hopefully as well.

I want to give plenty of notice before the first meeting, so what do you think about Wednesday, February 3rd at 7pm? Is that too much notice?

For the initial meeting place, until we can get an official spot, I'm leaning towards the courtyard between the UGL and the Union. To me this seems like an easy place to find and somewhere we have indoor options nearby if it's nasty outside. Thoughts?

Thank you to everyone that's been giving me opinions, offering to help, and lending support!

So for the PSA fliers I'm going to come up with a website and I need a meeting place/time to get people together and see if we can organize something for real. I emailed a professor that used to be associated with the club (faculty advisor?) as suggested by another old member, so we'll see if he's interested in lending some official credentials to this project. Since it isn't an official student organization yet I can't request a classroom for a meeting... does anyone have any suggestions for a place? It would need to be easy to find and conducive to socializing. I'm considering the Union Underground, although from what I remember it could get noisy and crowded... maybe not so much on a weekday evening? Not sure; haven't been there in a while. I was also thinking of an outdoor location, like in one of the library courtyards, by a fountain or the turtle pond, etc., but if the weather is bad then that wouldn't work out so well. Any ideas?

Lane's ankle was getting worse so we took him back to the ProMed. Apparently when they said "light duty", what they meant was "no duty". He'll be on his back quite a bit more now and it could take weeks to heal. So, no painting this weekend, and please send all the energy/reiki/prayers you can muster. He is not the kind of guy that likes to be laid up, and I'm not the kind of girl that likes to run a two-person, four-animal household all by herself. Especially when it needs to be painted using very tall ladders before I can unpack anything and have anything resembling a normal life again.

Lane's ankle is not broken but is severely sprained (and looks pretty nasty - very swollen and bruised). He has a soft cast and is on crutches for at least four days, then he goes back in for a re-check. Obviously, this will seriously impact his ability to work... we're hoping they can come up with office work for him to do. And I will have to take care of myself, the house, the animals, and him... so please keep us in your thoughts.

Please send reiki/energy!!!
Hey guys! Lane has hurt his ankle, and at first we thought it was just twisted but now it looks like it might be serious. Since his job requires him to be on his feet all day, this could spell bad things for us... so please send everything you've got to his left ankle. I'm taking him into minor emergency today.

EDIT: Maybe this is what I get for being too hard on Colt... Lane did finish out the entire work day on his hurt ankle, and he probably made it a lot worse!

Really?
Dear LJ commenters:

We learn through challenging what we currently think. I don't mind if you disagree with me... especially not when I'm drunk and/or upset and probably not being entirely rational or entirely myself. I just ask that you grow a pair and show your name so I know who I'm having a conversation with instead of hiding behind an Anonymous blanket.

In case you hadn't heard, we lost...
I never want to hear the name Colt McCoy ever again as long as I live... I don't know how he can ever show his face in Texas again... what an embarrassment.

The new semester at UT starts January 19th; would anyone be interested in helping me post fliers for PSA the Sunday or Monday before? Even if you think there isn't much interest anymore, think of the possibilities if there really is... giving people access to resources, mentors, and community... and introducing some fresh blood into groups like Pallas and CMA. The youth are our future!

I don't know if I've mentioned before, but I'm a notary now, so if you need anything notarized just let me know and I will be happy to take care of it for you.

Another Community!
I have started another LJ Community if anyone is interested in joining. It's called

fit_pagans, and here's the blurb from the profile: This is to support other Pagans in building their health, wellness, and fitness. Feel free to offer tips, share your struggles and accomplishments, and ask for advice or help. A recent study discovered that women who had some form of social support, either through in-person counseling or an online chat group, lost more than 15 pounds over a 9-month period, dropping about 500 calories from their daily diet and walking about a mile more each day than from their starting point. Let's help each other look and feel our best!

I know that many of us are becoming more focused on improving our health, and some of us have always been interested in a healthy lifestyle or have made great strides in improving our fitness. This is a community for Pagans and friends interested in sharing with and supporting each other on the path to wellness. Please feel free to pass this along to anyone else you think might be interested.

Mexico City more progressive than the freaking U.S.

Who knew that despite Catholicism and machismo, the people's will could actually overcome? If only Americans could defeat Puritanism and homophobia now...

Okay, I don't often do this fancy LJ linking thing, so hopefully I won't mess it up... if you're interested in helping out with reviving the UT PSA, you can join the once-abandoned but apparently still working LJ group

utpsa. You don't have to be a student, just interested in helping out, whether it be by chiming in with advice, posting events or reviews, being a mentor for a younger person, etc.

The Pagan Student Alliance is the only thing I really enjoyed about college, and it opened so many doors to me that I didn't even know were there. I think it's very sad that it fell apart and kids now don't have that resource... so I am going to try and revive it. I need three students to start a student organization, so if you know anyone currently at UT that might be interested then please send them my way. And if you might be interested in leading a workshop or discussion please let me know. I think that getting more young people involved in the Pagan community can only help it, and I think there are probably a lot of young people that don't know what sort of resources are out there for them.

Also, we'll be letting go of the rain barrel as well, but that's at the new house down South. Let me know if you want it and we'll dig it out for you.

We have decided to let go of our compost barrel if anyone is interested. It has a flap that latches and a container underneath to catch the "tea". And it has stuff in it already! It's on the curb at the rent house (let me know if you want it but don't know where that is).

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