"They'll Be Waiting at the Lab..."

Here's a fun one for all you psychology majors out there. For the last six months or so I have been having a recurring nightmare where I can't lock my door. The other details kind of vary, or fuzz out so that I can't remember them later, but I always need need to get the door locked and the lock won't work.

It bothers me so much that I've been testing the lock in real life to make sure it's still functional, which it is. So I have no idea where this dream is coming from.

I figure it's obviously an anxiety nightmare, which I get a lot, but usually my anxiety dreams are easier to figure out; like when I first started school I had lots of dreams where I went to say hi to friends and they pushed me or shouted at me and said I was disgusting and they didn't want to be friends with me. And whenever I have a job I have plenty of dreams about missing work or getting shouted at by my supervisor, &c. But these are part of two types of totally inexplicable dreams I have, and I don't know what they're related to.

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It is interfering with the restfulness of my sleep.

"Circle Into the Driveway..."

So, guys, you probably know that mhari's father died the day before Thanksgiving. It was completely unexpected and their family was in no way prepared--he went into the hospital with a slight fever, got an infection in his heart, and had to have emergency surgery without having time to get off his blood-thinners, and as a result he bled out during the surgery.

Currently her family is. Not doing well financially. They don't have a source of steady income, and their mom (my Other Mom) suffers from clinical depression and will have a really hard time finding a job.

Now is a really important time for them to be able to keep things together from a monetary standpoint while they're grieving and dealing with the aftermath, and with that in mind, it's time for a fanfic drive.

So you probably can guess the drill! I will write a hundred words of anything you like per five dollars donated, ad nauseam. I write Arthurian (in many incarnations), Les Mis, Westmark, Biblefic, some Firefly, Star Trek TOS, X-Men: Evolutions, and any and all crossovers of the above. I'm good for het, slash, and gen. I will even (God help me) continue the great Gawain-is-a-Vampire Romance Novel. You name your price, my friends.

Please feel free to pimp this to anyone you know who also knows mhari, as I am nowhere near friends with all her friends.