and break like a promise made
Oy, it's not even 10:30 and already it's one of those days. I should have known when I got down to the platform and it was packed three people deep (it is not a very wide platform), and the 6 rumbled past without stopping. I got on the second one, got a seat even, and it ran express from 42nd to 14th, so I thought it was a minor glitch, but no.
Work is... a little crazy and only going to get crazier in the next two weeks. June 3rd cannot come soon enough for me.
On the upside, I've broken 1000 words on my remix, and that is almost always the most stressful part of writing for me. For challenges, I mean. Once I've hit the minimum, some of the pressure eases up and I can just focus on the story, rather than am I gonna make word count? How about now? ...Now? Anyway, I'm pretty sure it will be glaringly obvious as mine, but so far I like how it's going.
I've also picked up a pinch hit, which is also awesome, because now it feels more like remix time. This year has been pretty smooth, mostly because I haven't had to deal with the participants at all -
alittlefaith and
angelgazing have done 99.9% of that, and that's the part that makes me all angry with rage. Also, so far, having a mailing list for pinch hitters, à la
yuletide, has worked out pretty well, as has the AO3 challenge management system. I especially like the "default" button, so people don't have to email to tell us - they can just click and let us know, and the assignment moves to the top of the page, waiting for the pinch hitter's name to be filled in. Don't get me wrong, I'm compiling a list of things that I'd like for the next go round, but overall, it's amazingly nifty.
Of course, now I have to go outside, spin around three times and spit, so I don't tempt the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing, which will cause the 200 people who haven't posted their stories yet to simultaneously drop out without notification. (Yes, I do have that fear every single year; no, it's never happened. But that doesn't mean it couldn't! And even I can't write 200 remixes in a week!)
I am trying really hard not to think about tonight's SPN season finale. I am zen. I am poised and centered and at one with the universe. I have accepted that the show isn't going to make me happy, and it isn't going to wreck me in the good way. I know that and I am okay with that. We'll always have season 2. I am possibly completely lying through my teeth. (also, I am unspoiled for the finale and mostly plan to keep it that way)
*deep breaths*
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Work is... a little crazy and only going to get crazier in the next two weeks. June 3rd cannot come soon enough for me.
On the upside, I've broken 1000 words on my remix, and that is almost always the most stressful part of writing for me. For challenges, I mean. Once I've hit the minimum, some of the pressure eases up and I can just focus on the story, rather than am I gonna make word count? How about now? ...Now? Anyway, I'm pretty sure it will be glaringly obvious as mine, but so far I like how it's going.
I've also picked up a pinch hit, which is also awesome, because now it feels more like remix time. This year has been pretty smooth, mostly because I haven't had to deal with the participants at all -
alittlefaith and
angelgazing have done 99.9% of that, and that's the part that makes me all angry with rage. Also, so far, having a mailing list for pinch hitters, à la
yuletide, has worked out pretty well, as has the AO3 challenge management system. I especially like the "default" button, so people don't have to email to tell us - they can just click and let us know, and the assignment moves to the top of the page, waiting for the pinch hitter's name to be filled in. Don't get me wrong, I'm compiling a list of things that I'd like for the next go round, but overall, it's amazingly nifty.
Of course, now I have to go outside, spin around three times and spit, so I don't tempt the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing, which will cause the 200 people who haven't posted their stories yet to simultaneously drop out without notification. (Yes, I do have that fear every single year; no, it's never happened. But that doesn't mean it couldn't! And even I can't write 200 remixes in a week!)
I am trying really hard not to think about tonight's SPN season finale. I am zen. I am poised and centered and at one with the universe. I have accepted that the show isn't going to make me happy, and it isn't going to wreck me in the good way. I know that and I am okay with that. We'll always have season 2. I am possibly completely lying through my teeth. (also, I am unspoiled for the finale and mostly plan to keep it that way)
*deep breaths*
***
This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/168548.html.
people have commented there.