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the_rckI’m up because I’ve had a headache since around the time Cordelia got up. I’m hoping that I can beat it into submission and go back to bed for a while. To that end, I’m delaying my dose of Zoloft until lunch time. If that works okay, I’ll probably take it then as a regular thing. At this point, I’ve had my tea and breakfast and taken naproxen. An hour later, none of that has addressed the headache. It doesn’t feel like a migraine, so I hesitate to try Amerge, especially since I think Amerge may not be safe with Zoloft (the information sheet with the prescription says not to take Imitrex. Amerge is fundamentally the same thing, just longer acting).
I got about another eight graphic novels at the library yesterday. I’m hoping I can read most of them this week and get them back to the library. I have thirty three items checked out with more holds likely to come in.
I checked last night as to whether or not the library had a copy of a movie I was considering offering for Yuletide only to discover that it was never issued on DVD and isn’t available anywhere I could find but Amazon. I could buy a copy, electronically, for about $8, but I’d rather not do that, so I’m not going to offer the fandom. It’s not as if I don’t have plenty of other options.
I spent a little time sorting the fandoms that I’d put on my I-could-write-this list and then moved to my yeah-but-I’m-not-going-to list. I wanted to figure out my reasons for each decision. There were two things I plan to request that are unlikely to get offers, and I want those to be on the part of the sign up summary that indicates no offers just in case someone’s thinking about offering. Two things are fandoms I’ve written before that I just don’t want to try this year. Six were things that, based on the requested characters, I suspect will call for shippy fic that I’m not convinced I could pull off. Nine were things that I love but that I don’t think I can write because they have very distinctive styles or characters that I don’t think I can pull off. Ten are things with canons too long for me to be willing to review the whole thing and then write. Nine are things that I would have to buy in order to offer (two of those, I could almost certainly get from the library, but the others, not so much). The remaining ten are things that I can’t quite put my finger on why I don’t want to write them.
I’ve still got sixteen fandoms I’m willing to offer, so I’m calling it good. I may check out a few of the five minute fandom options, but I’ll only offer those if they really grab me by the throat and insist. There was one video I thought I might offer, but then I discovered that the nominator hadn’t disambiguated and that the video I wanted to write for wasn’t the one they wanted to receive. The song name was pretty damned generic, so I don’t know why it was approved without disambiguation.
At any rate, I’m hoping to do my Yuletide sign up some time today. I don’t want to wait until the last minute, and I thought that the middle of the day, US, on a weekday would be a better time, in terms of server load, to sign up.
I managed to do my UCon event pre-registration last night. Several things I was interested in were full already. I ended up with three events and some generics. Some of that was that I’m not sure how tired I will be. I didn’t want to commit to anything Friday night, for example, because there’s something I want to do at 8 a.m. on Saturday. I will have time to nap after that because there were only two things I was interested in that morning and both are full. Scott and I will play in one game together, Friday morning. We were trying for two, but he got the last ticket for that one. It’s a Sentinels of the Multiverse game with the game designer, and I think Scott will get a much bigger thrill out of that than I would. He’s hoping to get his boxed set signed. If I’d gotten the last ticket, I’d probably have given it to him.
I wonder if anyone’s signed up for either of my UCon events? There are a lot of people running Sentinels, and I’m in the very last slot of the convention. I don’t know how many people stay that late. I’m the only person running Amber diceless, but it’s a pretty old system at this point, and I don’t know how many people will know Zelazny’s books.
I got about another eight graphic novels at the library yesterday. I’m hoping I can read most of them this week and get them back to the library. I have thirty three items checked out with more holds likely to come in.
I checked last night as to whether or not the library had a copy of a movie I was considering offering for Yuletide only to discover that it was never issued on DVD and isn’t available anywhere I could find but Amazon. I could buy a copy, electronically, for about $8, but I’d rather not do that, so I’m not going to offer the fandom. It’s not as if I don’t have plenty of other options.
I spent a little time sorting the fandoms that I’d put on my I-could-write-this list and then moved to my yeah-but-I’m-not-going-to list. I wanted to figure out my reasons for each decision. There were two things I plan to request that are unlikely to get offers, and I want those to be on the part of the sign up summary that indicates no offers just in case someone’s thinking about offering. Two things are fandoms I’ve written before that I just don’t want to try this year. Six were things that, based on the requested characters, I suspect will call for shippy fic that I’m not convinced I could pull off. Nine were things that I love but that I don’t think I can write because they have very distinctive styles or characters that I don’t think I can pull off. Ten are things with canons too long for me to be willing to review the whole thing and then write. Nine are things that I would have to buy in order to offer (two of those, I could almost certainly get from the library, but the others, not so much). The remaining ten are things that I can’t quite put my finger on why I don’t want to write them.
I’ve still got sixteen fandoms I’m willing to offer, so I’m calling it good. I may check out a few of the five minute fandom options, but I’ll only offer those if they really grab me by the throat and insist. There was one video I thought I might offer, but then I discovered that the nominator hadn’t disambiguated and that the video I wanted to write for wasn’t the one they wanted to receive. The song name was pretty damned generic, so I don’t know why it was approved without disambiguation.
At any rate, I’m hoping to do my Yuletide sign up some time today. I don’t want to wait until the last minute, and I thought that the middle of the day, US, on a weekday would be a better time, in terms of server load, to sign up.
I managed to do my UCon event pre-registration last night. Several things I was interested in were full already. I ended up with three events and some generics. Some of that was that I’m not sure how tired I will be. I didn’t want to commit to anything Friday night, for example, because there’s something I want to do at 8 a.m. on Saturday. I will have time to nap after that because there were only two things I was interested in that morning and both are full. Scott and I will play in one game together, Friday morning. We were trying for two, but he got the last ticket for that one. It’s a Sentinels of the Multiverse game with the game designer, and I think Scott will get a much bigger thrill out of that than I would. He’s hoping to get his boxed set signed. If I’d gotten the last ticket, I’d probably have given it to him.
I wonder if anyone’s signed up for either of my UCon events? There are a lot of people running Sentinels, and I’m in the very last slot of the convention. I don’t know how many people stay that late. I’m the only person running Amber diceless, but it’s a pretty old system at this point, and I don’t know how many people will know Zelazny’s books.
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Date: 2016-10-03 01:59 pm (UTC)I hope the headache passes.
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Date: 2016-10-03 05:33 pm (UTC)Most years, though, I have between twenty and thirty fandoms that I want to write.