Brief Update

[ermingarden]

Currently working on a brief assignment, i.e., an assignment to write a brief - the brief itself, at twelve pages, is not exactly brief. It's also due tomorrow evening. (Someday I will resist the temptation to make a pun; that day is not today.) I'm of course being very responsible right now and certainly not writing a meta post for elphrona_outpost, and this statement is definitely not a lie....

I decided to sign up for the 2021 maythe4thbewithyou fic exchange.
I was initially reluctant, but the minimum word count is only 500 words, and I wrote that much in a day earlier this week filling a prompt over at Elphrona, so I'm confident I'll be able to meet the minimum, at least. I had a great time with this exchange last year, so I'm looking forward to participating again!

I have a sneaking suspicion I may be unmatchable as a recipient - I basically only requested characters from the first class at the Yavin IV Praxeum, and that's not a very popular corner of SW fandom right now. (One of the relationships I requested was "Luke Skywalker & Kam Solusar" - there's currently exactly one fic with that tag on AO3, and it's my ridiculous dreidel fic for Festival of Lights Fest. Another relationship I requested was "Luke Skywalker/Kam Solusar", which has a whopping zero fics on AO3. In comparison, there are twelve fics for "Jar Jar Binks/Sheev Palpatine".) I'm not sure what happens to unmatchable recipients - do their letters get sent out as initial pinch hits? I was broader in my offers, enough that I'd be surprised not to get matched there, but I just really want more fic for Kam, Tionne, and Cilghal to exist. (I know, I know...I should write it myself! I'm working on it.)


I made a post last week encouraging folks to donate blood, and today I discovered yet another reason to do so - every unit of blood gets tested for Covid antibodies, and then they mail you the result (or at least New York Blood Center does). So I now know I have not had Covid without knowing it. Not totally sure if that's a good or a bad thing - good, I think, since it means I can't have infected anybody. I'm eligible for a vaccine now in New York, but I'm still on the hunt for an appointment, and I expect that will take a while.

The Internship Hunt continues!
One place I'd applied to has evidently decided not to hire me. I say "evidently" because it's their policy - as they told me at the second-round interview - only to notify folks they are hiring, not those they aren't, so if I didn't hear from them within two weeks, it meant they hadn't picked me. I can understand that policy applying to applicants who've only submitted resumes, not yet been interviewed; but after two rounds of interviews, would it have killed them to send a quick email? (A couple other places I'd applied to sent me rejection emails even though they never even offered me an interview - not something I'd expected to be grateful for, but I really am.) Anyway, I had an interview on Tuesday with another office where I'd actually prefer to work, and I'm feeling pretty good about it. *knocks on wood* They only do one round of interviews, and they said I'll be hearing from them early next week.

Comments

[independence1776]

Good luck with the brief and internship hunting!

If no one is available to write for you, you become an initial pinch hit.

That's neat about the blood testing.

[ermingarden]

Thank you!

Great! That's what I thought, but I wasn't totally sure - thanks for confirming!

Yes - I think if you do have Covid antibodies, they send you a letter asking you to donate convalescent plasma. Nice of them to take the trouble to notify the rest of us, too!

[shirebound]

every unit of blood gets tested for Covid antibodies, and then they mail you the result

That's very cool.

[ermingarden]

Definitely! I think if you do have Covid antibodies, they send you a letter asking you to donate convalescent plasma.