Universe, I would like to ask you for a few things, as you do provide excellently to those who ask:

1. I need a wonderful, hard-working, honest, philanthropy-oriented web designer. Someone who believes in the cause and will work as hard as I do for it. Someone who isn’t there just for a paycheck, but for a passion. I promise to nurture and protect this web designer and be a great boss. Also, there will be regular trips to Pita Jungle for hummus involved, unless the designer hates hummus, like my weird husband.
2. I need an intern, a hard-working, smart ASU student who will give me 100% because this is the very first, very important step in his or her career. S/he is a maturing young adult, very serious about the job, doesn’t need micromanaging, takes initiative, wants to absorb the Internet world like a sponge. I will also feed this wonderful intern hummus.
3. I need my muse back. She has been battered very badly in a recent storm of anxiety, stress and poor sleep. Make her strong again. Help me feed her. Not hummus. Whatever muses eat.
4. I need to help a political candidate win an important election, or at least give it his or her best shot. I did not realize this until today, but it is a need.
5. I need to find my place. If this house is it, the bar behind my house needs to stop playing live butt rock on Sunday nights. Please, universe. This would help a lot.
6. I need my friend Moira to have a speedy recovery from her surgery tomorrow. Please send her good books and movies.
7. My brother is running an ad in a national magazine on Tuesday. Will you send lots of people his way?
8. I need to make music.