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[aesc]

It occurred to me today (meaning, I happened across it on my flist) that anotheratlantis requires its fics to be done by the 15th of this month, instead of the 24th, as I had written down in my FICS WITH DEADLINES column of the STUFF THAT MUST BE FINISHED!!!!!! page in the Fic Moleskine.

The 24th was, apparently, a transposition error from the deadline for the atlantisbasics ficathon, which was the 24th of last month. (Which, in turn, I thought was due on the 15th of September.)

The lesson: NEVER try to be organized. It doesn't work, especially if you're aesc.

*meeps unhappily, puts on speed*

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[sheafrotherdon.livejournal.com]

EEEEEEK. That's, uh, ELEVEN DAYS. Crap on a cracker.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Mercifully, mercifully stuff is written, though it's in various stages of polish. One I may have to keep back and post when it's done because I don't want to release it before I have the time to make sure it's put together the way it needs to be.

[sheafrotherdon.livejournal.com]

I got signed out. How did I get signed out? But anyway - I haven't even finished reading the books my story is going to be based on! I have TWO MORE TO READ> sadjhflaskdjhfasdkjhfa

[aesc.livejournal.com]

We need Rodney to figure out how to manipulate time so eleven days is more like, say, twenty. At least.

[sheafrotherdon.livejournal.com]

Yes. Or, say, um, a month. A month? Is that so bad?

[aesc.livejournal.com]

A month would be just fine. Surely no temporal instabilities/paradoxes would result from having eleven days stretched into thirty. Right? Right.

[summertea.livejournal.com]

*curses loudly*

Oh my god.

I forgot about the deadlines.

GHGL;KJASDF.

[sheafrotherdon.livejournal.com]

We are all in the same boat! And I think technically I'm a mod of that comm and even I FORGOT!

[summertea.livejournal.com]

The sad part is that I even noted to myself in my blog that HEY, SELF, YOU HAVE THESE TWO DEADLINES. MAKE A NOTE OF THAT.

I fail at myself.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

This is why I've decided never to try to be organized again. It takes time away from things that are enjoyable, like John/Rodney porn, and serves no purpose whatsoever.

[summertea.livejournal.com]

I forget that I probably SHOULDN'T sign up for these things, but I end up doing so anyway. So I am obligated to draw actual art instead of doodling dumb J/R things in the margins of my notebook!

[aesc.livejournal.com]

But none of us will complain about the result :>

[aesc.livejournal.com]

You know *cough* as mod you have certain god-like powers... Not employed for your own gain, of course, but for the benefit of those abject souls, such as myself, who rely upon your mercy.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

I was looking today because I was like "Oh, I should check off some of the things I've done" and was very happy that I still had three weeks or whatever until anotheratlantis, but then I was reading my flist and they said "less than two weeks until the deadline" and I thought, oh they've just miscounted.

But I know I'm terrible with numbers, so I went to the comm. to check.

Insert Rodney's "I'm a dead man" Moment of Horrified Realization here.

[summertea.livejournal.com]

I have written myself a post-it note! And stuck it on my bookshelf, or else I will never remember this.

*reinstalls tablet software in preparation*

[tex.livejournal.com]

How much do I love that you have a Fic Moleskine! Lots, that's how much!

[aesc.livejournal.com]

\o/ Moleskines FTW! I just got my newest fic one a few months ago, and it came with stickers!

[ainsley.livejournal.com]

As soon as I have my greedy, broke hands on my loan money, I'm going to acquire my first! I can pop my Moleskine cherry! (The thing about being a fan and also studying sex is that suddenly EVERYTHING is about sex.)

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Heh heh.

Moleskines are truly wonderful things. I'm not sure why they're so great, and why I can actually write things in them as opposed to other notebooks, but it's true. I think it has to do with the off-white pages and the nicely spaced lines.

[ainsley.livejournal.com]

I was freaking out Friday because I had a ficathon story due Saturday and I didn't even remember the prompt, and have only seen the source text once. Thank the gods the deadline is 30 September, not 1 September.

Lesson: even trying to be organized is a step ahead of me.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

even trying to be organized is a step ahead of me.

I just defeat my own purpose.

This is why I need a sloppy-haired, jeans-wearing, smelling-of-sand research assistant who can remember these things for me. Because in addition to being hot, he'd be organized too.

[ainsley.livejournal.com]

I haven't been able to respond to this comment because multiple body parts combusted from the amazingness of that idea.

[pollitt.livejournal.com]

MEEP. I thought about that today at work, and then stuff came up and I had pushed it back in my brain.

Writing. I need to get writing.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Writing. I need to get writing.

After the "I'm a dead man" moment, that's exactly what I thought.