save your sanity for later.

Would anyone be interested in seeing me work through some workbooks for borderline personality disorder, mindfulness, etc?

I could take suggestions after I work through a book or two.

I feel that this would be beneficial in that it would instill some accountability and responsiveness through commenting. Plus I hate writing in books.

The posts would probably not be public, requiring that you a) have a dreamwidth journal or lj account, b) request access to my journal and c) request access to a filter, UNLESS enough people comment that they would prefer them to be public.

(Note: the reason I'm filtering is NOT for privacy, but to avoid spamming people with entries they don't want. Thus my hesitation over which to do.)

They would always be behind a cut, and any comments would always be screened, thus ensuring people's privacy.

Or maybe I should make this into a community and we could all get the same books and work through them together? What do you think?

One of my best friends, Anne (silent_lorelei), has recently suffered a catastrophic data crash. They think her hard drive IS recoverable, but the price she's been quoted is 300 dollars.

She has no access to that kind of money and is barely scraping by as it is. (This was the backup hard drive that crashed, because her REGULAR hard drive crashed less than a week ago. It was a perfect storm—she literally had just loaded her OS/files on the backup hard drive and was preparing to make a new backup and it crashed.)

While I know there are greater tragedies out there more deserving of your money, there's something that's hit very close to home for me and all I'm asking for is 5 or 10 bucks. You can make a real difference in one of my very close friend's life.


Her paypal address is amyers AT greensborocollege DOT edu


Read more about what she lost (scans of family photos that are now lost, etc). Read about how long it would, best guess, take to recover/redownload the things that are still recoverable. Most of what she lost is not recoverable, including novels she wrote in various forms of completion and music/books she legally paid for and downloaded that don't offer redownload capability.

Like I said, I know there are other tragedies out there that are possibly more deserving, but she's one of my best friends and this has really hit her very hard, and 5 bucks is really not too much to ask for, I hope.