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It is my cousin's 18th birthday (I haven't seen her since she was 8, but I've been sending her birthday and christmas presents for years) and I have, um, not yet started making her present yet. Which I should have done, or at least (of course this just occurred to me right before I started typing this) sent her a card saying "present to follow"... particularly since I think I'm done sending her things except perhaps for christmas cards. I'm not quite sure if one should tactfully mention this... Of course, with luck, she'll go off to college and start using e-mail, and I might hear from her more than three times in a decade. Who can say?
And therefore it is possibly not cosmically inappropriate that my partner for the Crafty Detective swap has gone semi-missing (and now promises to send monday... except if she's in the US, she's going to find that she can't, given that it's a postal holiday) which I would have no problem with, except that the swap organizer isn't going to give me feedback for the package I sent two weeks ago until after I get her package. And I was thinking I could count on having that feedback slot, since there are two super-quick swaps I was contemplating signing up for, and maybe the birthday swap in June. Clearly, I need better priorities, and if my cheap expensive-thing comes, I'll have enough to play with that's not swaps for a while, anyway.
In other news, the previously mentioned most horrible sentence in my novel: Sinbad got a nice letter of employment from the witch Ceridwen, whose ad for a general servant to do odd jobs in exchange for a stipend and some magical tutoring he had answered with some optimism. was so awful that I could not bear to part with it. So I put it in bold and moved on... I feel that there is something amiss with my editing technique.
And therefore it is possibly not cosmically inappropriate that my partner for the Crafty Detective swap has gone semi-missing (and now promises to send monday... except if she's in the US, she's going to find that she can't, given that it's a postal holiday) which I would have no problem with, except that the swap organizer isn't going to give me feedback for the package I sent two weeks ago until after I get her package. And I was thinking I could count on having that feedback slot, since there are two super-quick swaps I was contemplating signing up for, and maybe the birthday swap in June. Clearly, I need better priorities, and if my cheap expensive-thing comes, I'll have enough to play with that's not swaps for a while, anyway.
In other news, the previously mentioned most horrible sentence in my novel: Sinbad got a nice letter of employment from the witch Ceridwen, whose ad for a general servant to do odd jobs in exchange for a stipend and some magical tutoring he had answered with some optimism. was so awful that I could not bear to part with it. So I put it in bold and moved on... I feel that there is something amiss with my editing technique.