one of those pointless, irrelevant everyday posts :)

Okay, so I spent a whole evening browsing back through my favorite fandom authors' journals, trying to decide who and what to nominate for the Slashy Oscars - and then another whole evening doing the actual "click back and forth, cut'n'paste etc." thing. So I am filled with a sense of well-performed duty.;) Except not really. Somehow I found it all very frustrating, for a few different reasons. Like, for example:

- everything I wanted to nominate seemed to either fall into the same few categories, or not fit within any of them at all;

- so much of my favorite stuff has been posted in locked journals and is therefore ineligible;

- there's no way I can keep track of everything I read during the whole of last year; unless I were to spend a week clicking back through flist and going blind in the process;

- therefore I know I must have missed some brilliant fics that simply slipped my errant memory;

- I don't have the patience to do this anymore, even though I feel that makes me unfair towards some writers who may have deserved more attention.

All in all, I think I'm taking this whole thing entirely too seriously for my own good.;P And no, I didn't nominate myself - though if the contest included FPS, I probably would.;) All I have ever done by way of RPS (which, in my case, means V/O) are two drabbles and two PWP's. The PWP's are, in all honesty, pretty mediocre as PWP's go (one of them is the first fandom thing I ever wrote, for God's sake!...:D) - so I wouldn't have the cheek to suggest anyone should bother with them at all. Drabbles are a different thing, though. Drabbles are something I am good at - so I actually put them up "for consideration".;) Couldn't hurt anyone now, could it? :D

In other - completely irrelevant - news, I just got my period this morning, and didn't even feel it. Seriously - NOTHING HURTS. I am amazed. Must be the herbal dietary supplement I've been taking for the last few weeks (no chemical stuff, just pure seaweed packed into tight little green pills). It's supposed to facilitate metabolism, but apparently does other good things as well. My periods were never so regular before - as well as very painful (sorry if this is TMI for anyone). I didn't even have much of a PMS this time - granted, I've been a bit jittery for the last few days... but nothing like my usual bouts of profound hysteria.;) WOW. Need to get a good supply of the green stuff.:) Maybe I'll even lose weight eventually (that was the desired effect; and even though it's not visible yet, I at least seem to have stopped gaining more - which is good enough for now)...

I know, I know - I should just kick my own ass into a more fixed exercise routine, not buy more miracle pills.;) But the sad truth is that tearing myself away from the computer seems to require inhuman strength, somehow...