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2008 Donors Choose Blogger Challenge

How would you like to make a difference in the life of a public school students?

For the second year in a row, Six Apart is participating in the DonorsChoose.org Blogger Challenge. The challenge runs all throughout the month of October, and we'd love for you to participate along with us. Just as we did last year, Six Apart is sponsoring the award for the bloggers who reach the most kids.

How It Works

The Blogger Challenge is a friendly contest amongst bloggers to raise money for low-income public schools. Here's how it works: teachers from all over the country post items for which they would like funding, such as writing supplies for a journalism class, equipment for a science lab, or music instruments for a band class. Bloggers choose their favorite projects and link to their challenge page in a post or via a giving widget on their blog. The bloggers who raise the most money or reach the most kids will win an award.

Here's how you can participate:

• Go to the Donors Choose Blogger Challenge page and find a blogger's giving list you'd like to support.

or

• Set up your own challenge and let your readers know in a blog post or by installing the widget (it just takes a few clicks).

No matter which way you choose to participate, you should feel incredibly proud of yourself for helping to bring resources to students in struggling classrooms.

Donors Choose will announce the results in early November, and we'll reveal the winners of the Six Apart award for bloggers who reached the most students shortly thereafter.

Are you going to accept the Blogger Challenge? Tell us about it (and link to it) in the comments!

Stupid...stupid...stupid. Grrrr! I can be so stupid sometimes. I say don't get your hopes up over and over in my head and then I still manage to. I was really looking forward to this date. I asked friends advice on makeup looks and I shopped for a new top. All day I was counting down the hours until we would meet.

Danny text messaged me at 6:00pm when his shift was suppose to end and told me he was sorry but he couldn't meet up tonight. His shift was extended by 5 hours more. We exchanged text messages over the next 2 hours when his last message at 8pm to me was "Hey I'm off!", which was a 3 hour change of plans now. But that was it. He was off but he didn't say, maybe we can still meet up. Nothing. I'm disappointed. I wish he had better communication and at least told me something else like he was too tired now etc. Even last night he told me he was going to bed. I got nothing tonight.

I'm not gonna flip out or write him off. Life happens. I understand that he had to work late. So be it.

3 days ago I got suckered into renewing my yahoo personals membership over a wink message I had received. The man (Jay) lives in Sacramento which is still quite a distance from me. But he was cute and had a wonderful smile. So I signed up and we played email tag for a day. Then the next day it lead to cell phone texting. (He doesn't have a computer at home). Yes, I am dead serious. This was already going to put a damper on any sort of relationship.
by the third day it had escalated to text messaging and picture sending. On the fourth day, today, it was completely cold. He send me a message at 1 am saying "Goodnight. Maybe we we'll cross paths one day". What the heck kind of message is that. This guy is a weenie! Grow some why don't you. Be more aggressive with me dammit!

In all seriousness I am ok with letting that fish slip away BECAUSE today I logged into Yahoo personals to check on my now newly paid membership and saw I had received a message. It was from a man's profile I had browsed last night. I thought he was adorable. Truly I did, but I didn't contact him because I saw that he was looking for an athletic female. I am not athletic framed. I'm still working on it but not there yet. So I messaged him back and we played cell texting all night. At least he was a bit more aggressive by asking if I wanted to meet tonight. I told him I was unable to since my parents are visiting but I asked about Saturday evening. He said sure. So, we have a date Saturday night (tonight).

You know the usual. I hate to get excited because I am always let down. I can't help but get a little giddy when I think about him (Danny). He's adorable. Just the type I love! He's 30 yrs old, 6'0", athletic, hazel eyes, brown hair. He's compassionate about people and he works in the medical field.

I don't believe in astrological signs and all that crap but it seems that I am majorly attracted to Libras. He is a Libra.

Also 2 nights ago when I was browsing the yahoo profiles that matched my criteria I recognized a photo. It was my ex husband. Guess he's single now for his 3rd time in 3 years.

BlogWorld

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The BlogWorld & New Media Expo in Las Vegas on September 20th and 21st is the largest blogging conference in the world and Six Apart, Vox's parent company, will be there in full force. The only question we have is: Will you be joining us?

If so, we hope you'll be sure to attend the opening keynote where Six Apart's CEO, Chris Alden, and VP, Anil Dash, will speak on "The State of the Blogosphere." Considering over 12 million American adults currently maintain a blog, and over 57 million Americans read blogs, we're very curious to find out what they have to say!

There are so many amazing speakers and panels at BlogWorld, we know you'll be incredibly busy, but we'd really love to meet you, so please take time to stop by the Six Apart booth and introduce yourself. While you're there, you can meet other Six Apart Voxers, learn more about our new website, Blogs.com, and get any questions you may have answered.

Are you attending the BlogWorld Expo? Let us know in the comments.

See you in Vegas!

-daisy

I've made up my mind and decided not to be age bias, I am now open to dating men under my 26 yr old cuttoff. I could be missing out on a fantastic relationship and not even know it. I spoke with a 36 yr old woman tonight at a friend's party and she is currently dating a 26 yr old. She said something that made me rethink the age thing. So I now open the doors to the younger men. Flock on in!

OK Drew is crazy. It's official. He tried to contact me on yahoo earlier this afternoon and then he sent me 3 emails today. Two more emails after I gave in and replied to an earlier one today telling him that yes I was upset with him for deceiving me and that I was done with a friendship or any sort of relationship. His 3rd email to me was through the dating site in which he had created a new profile and what's this.....he lied about his age?!?! *shocked* Ok so not only did he lie about what he looked like but he lied about his age! His following email messages were quite disturbing. he was pleading for me to not give up on him and that he could be the man I desire. He also said he feels he deserves a second chance. I think scariest part was when he said "I'm not ready to let go of you. I don't want to lose you".

It was all so pathetic and sad really. Sad that he is pleading to me like we had some sort of long history together. We spoke for 2 days! I made no commitment to him nor did I give him hope that we would be a couple. I told him one day and a time we would build our friendship.

On a complete other note I received an IM from Casey. Casey was a one night stand that happened about 3 years ago. He contacts me every few months on yahoo and of course he beats around the bush about hooking up again. And today's conversation was no different. The only thing that was kinda nice hearing from him was when I mentioned I was losing weight and had dropped 23 pounds he asked why was I dropping weight. He said he remembered me being cute! *sigh* Casey, Casey, Casey. He was so hot! I'll never forget him. It's too bad that he is a ladies man.

That was short lived. It turns out today after writing me a poem he emailed me, he admitted he had not been honest in posting an actual face shot of him. The photo he posted was of a friend that he had permission to use. I am hurt and deceived. Most importantly I feel stupid. So stupid for letting down my guard when I shouldn't have. I'm so stupid! I am really hating this entire online dating thing. I am so close to just deleting all my profiles and saying screw it all! The crazy thing is he is a therapist. A fricken therapist!!! What kind of therapist thinks this is ok?!?

He's gonna do it to me. Drew is going to make me fall for him. He's not only tall, handsome with a gorgeous smile but he loves kids (works with them too), is a hopeless romantic, intelligent, wants a family and likes hanging out with family as well, loves the beach and wants to live by one some day.

He wrote me a very long and thoughtful message tonight and everything he said in it just attracts me more to him. I don't want to get my hopes high. I really really don't.

From previous online dating, I have learned to keep my guard up and to believe that all men will say what they think I want to hear. They can be anyone and anything.

I want to let down my guard about Drew. We briefly spoke in IM this evening since it is midnight his time now but he did ask me if it bothered him if he spoke to other women on the site. I have no right to say it bothers me so of course I told him no. But I admit with him asking that, a percentage of belief that he could be someone really special in my life has gone down a bit. I want to believe he is sincere about getting to know me. Uggggh!

I debated whether or not to post this. Perhaps I should wait until more comes out of this. I had a 7 hour long conversation via IM with a wonderful man tonight. We seem to have alot in common and it looks like we're quite compatible. I don't like to get my hopes up high. I really hate that. I hate being let down. The minute I start fantasizing about a guy being my new boyfriend, my dream is over before it really begins. So I don't want to get my hopes up.

For once I am the more hesitant one. He has left the ball in my court. we talked about having the door open on a relationship. He assured me the door was open and that it was my decision as to if I wanted to walk through the door and greet him on the other side. He's a hopeless romantic. He loves sappy songs and romance movies.

If he truly is the same person in person I spoke with tonight, I can easily see myself falling for him. He is everything I've been searching for these past 3 yrs. I think that scares me. He is almost EXACTLY the man I have been seeking.

One issue is he lives in another state so we would have a long distance relationship until something was figured out. That could also be a huge road block.

I am leaving this in God's hands. 100% in his hands because I don't know how any of this will work out.

Blogsdotcom

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One of my favorite things about working at Six Apart is that it's a company founded by bloggers, for bloggers. As a result, not only do we want to provide bloggers with the best tools (like Vox, TypePad and Movable Type), we're also committed to helping bloggers find a broader audience, and helping readers find the blogs that matter to them. And with over 175,000 new blogs created every single day, this is no easy feat.

Luckily, with the launch of Blogs.com, Six Apart is making it easy for you to find the best blogs on the web. Hand-picked by a team of passionate editors, and organized by the topics that interest you, Blogs.com will help you find blogs on a variety of topics from Life, to Entertainment, to seasonal topics like Student Life. You can also catch up on the latest buzz on the web by reading featured editorials or checking out the top ten lists.

Wondering how you can submit your blog to the Blogs.com editors for consideration? It's easy -- Just fill out this quick form. In the meantime, check out Blogs.com and let us know what you think in the comments.

Thanks for reading!

-daisy