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I'm going to sign up for Yuletide. After turning the whole thing over and over, I realized that I'd not quite forgive myself for not signing up. I know, after all, that I enjoy the challenge even when it's hard. I don't know that I'll get sick again. I don't know that Scott and/or Cordelia will. I don't know that anything at all will go wrong. I'm not managing the proper level of glee right now, but I think I will once I'm committed.

I've severely limited the fandoms I'll be offering. I think this is the first year I'll be offering fewer than fifty, and I'm offering a lot fewer than that-- seventeen. I wanted to limit it to things that I'll be pleased to match on. Most are things I even have vague story rumblings for. The exceptions are things I think will be straightforward (famous last words?). I think I'm going to start rereading some books in the next few days. They're all things that my stress levels should find easing.

I'm going to sign up tomorrow morning. I'll have three clear hours for it then, and with luck, it won't be a high demand time for the Yuletide servers. If the process seems to take too long, I might put it off until Monday morning, but I'd rather get it done and have time to think about any changes that I might need to make, just in case there are any.

For this afternoon, I'm going to work on my dear-Yuletide-writer letter and on figuring out the combinations of characters I'll offer in the fandoms where I'm not offering 'any.' I think there's only one where I'm offering fewer than any and more than four, so it should be doable to get the combinations, at least mostly.

I'm also reconsidering my requests. I mean, I settled on four of the fandoms that I nominated. I'm just dithering a bit. Two of them are long and more than usually obscure-- Romance of Red Dust and Patriotic Knights. The other two are things I've been asking for every year since I started doing Yuletide-- Planet Ladder and Ayatsuri Sakon. I have glee at the thought of a story in any of the four fandoms, but I find myself wondering if I shouldn't list at least one fandom that's widely known (for Yuletide) or short and easy to come by (like a movie). If my request goes to the pinch hitter list, I might be hard to match, especially later in the process.

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