3 things: work, doctor's appointments, the frustrations of Jadefest anonymity

1. It's been a slow couple of days. Work is simultaneously boring beyond belief -- business is very slow, partly because of the continuing Commons construction project, partly because we have been trimming back our stock, partly because people just don't buy as many magazines and newspapers as they did eight years ago when I started working at the smoke shop -- and stupidly, ridiculously stressful -- we still don't know any concrete details about the renovation project except the footprint of the space we will lose to the elevator and stairwell, which includes not knowing where (or even if) we will get a new bathroom, when the work will begin, whether Mr. Speakerphone and Real Estate Company have agreed on the terms of a new lease, or really, anything at all.

I would even prefer hearing that we're going to shut down and I'll lose my job. I just want to KNOW, goddammit. The uncertainty is driving us all nuts.

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2. In related news, I really need to schedule an annual physical checkup before I hypothetically lose my health insurance. I should do that tonight, actually. My clinic takes email appointment requests, and ye gods and little fishes, I hate making appointments over the telephone.

*time lapse*

Okay, I just sent in an appointment request. We shall see what comes of that attempt.

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3. In unrelated news, I really, really want to talk about what I wrote for Jadefest, but due to certain factors, I pretty much can't say anything without blowing my anonymity. (I will explain this weekend. At great length, most likely.) But I can safely say that my recipient liked my work, which is always a relief. So yay for that!

You know, I think I may go write up a reveal day post, because why not. :-)

Dear Remixer letter

RemixRedux 11 assignments are out! I matched my remixee on two fandoms, and am currently trawling through their archive. (They have also written in a bunch of other fandoms I know, not to mention a lot that I don't know and/or do know but am actively uninterested in for various reasons, but I'm reading the main ones first.)

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To whoever is remixing me, I would like to say three things:

First, please do not worry excessively about my feelings. You are not writing a story for me. (I already wrote that version! It's the one you're reading. *grin*) What you are doing is taking a scenario I played with and writing the version that you want to see out there in the world.

Second, WIPs should be labeled as such in the summary metadata on my master list posts. If something is instead labeled as a fragment, that means it is a piece of what ought to be a larger story, but I didn't feel like writing the larger story (for whatever reason) so the fragment is functionally complete as posted and thus free to be remixed.

Third, if we happened to match on Harry Potter, please feel free to treat any of the component ficlets of "Fixation, and Other Stories" as separate, standalone works for remixing purposes -- especially the ones from the "Other Stories" chapters, since those are not part of any unified narrative. Even aside from that, they were all written as individual ficlets, and could just as easily have been posted as a series collection rather than a single over-arching story.

I think those are the only points that might be unclear.

I wish you the best of luck in your writing!

--Liz