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I HATE it when I accidentally send before I'm ready because my fingers get
tied up on the keyboard and punch in the wrong sequence of buttons....

Continued below from where I left off.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ainaechoiriel [mailto:mefaadmin@earthlink.net]
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 3:45 PM
To: 'MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: RE: [MEFAwards] PM: Thoughts and Wishes clashing ;-)



-----Original Message-----
From: elanor of aquitania [mailto:elanor@codacode.net]
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 3:33 PM
To: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [MEFAwards] PM: Thoughts and Wishes clashing ;-)

> This was not meant to be a jumping down Elanor's throat so much as a
> general plea. Suggestions for making it better, not a complete
> overhaul.

>Hi Ainaechoiriel,

>I do not feel jumped on my throat ;-)

Thanks. I'm glad you didn't. I was away from this for most of the weekend
and coming back it was just too much, I think. It was easier when I saw it
every day.

>I think these awards are your brain child.

Nevertheless you made this post mortem
to hear what your participants thought right and what not.
That I did, and will do further, as long as I am allowed ;-)

>I am neither the organisator of MEFA nor will I organize another award, it

is much too much work for me.

It *is* a lot of work, I'll give you that. And perhaps more than my brain
can best manage. I have seriously some problems with my brain due to
massive amounts of stress. The neurologists are stumped as they can find no
"hardware" reason for it. So nothing to fix. I'm stumped, too, and a
little depressed. Taking on the MEFAs was perhaps more than I should have,
but I loved it anyway.

>What worked I think we all saw.

>You managed the MEFAwards from the beginning until the projected end, that

in itself is such a awe inspiring performance that I am left quite
breathless.
I think you could just repeat this next year.

Thank you. I needed that little boost. ;-)

Those serious brain problems keep me from fully understanding, or even
really reading what you've written below. It's an aphasic symptom. I see the
words and most of them don't register any meaning with me. It's not a
problem of your writing. It's a problem of me reading and it's very
annoying. It's why I've been seeing a neurologist.

So, I will try to glean the gist of what you've said and make an intelligent
response if I can.

>But I think we were all invited by you to write what each participant

thinks could be improved.
What is not thought about and not written about can never be improved.

>So better write down also thoughts

that do not agree with the organizer's wishes than to leave out also those
thoughts that you did not have but that you might like to install.

I think you are saying it's better to bring things up and risk being told No
than to not say anything. You'd be right.

>I think it is in the mind of the beholder what each thinks is a "complete

overhaul".
Those persons not so much involved
in the organization see many things
not as important as you feel them
dear to yourself.

I think you are saying here that what I feel is important may not be felt to
be important by others and they can't know until I say something. You'd be
right again. I just have to say that my brain does not always cooperate. It
wsn't until this came up that I *felt* the suggestion of a complete overhaul
that I was able to organize the thought that why that category structure is
important to me. I'm getting a better handle on it as we go along. Maybe
I'll have something concrete by next years post-mortem that says: this will
not change, this is negotiable, and that sort of thing.

>So please bear with us

and take from our nitpicking
what you want ;-)

Thanks. I will and thank you for bearing with me! Brain-addled as I am.

>I think nobody will leave MEFAwards

only because the nits picked at
are not reworked as wished by the nitpicker.

Well, someone did leave though I can't say for sure this was why.

Thanks, Elanor!

--Ainaechoiriel
MEFA Admin and Founder

"This evil cannot be concealed by the power of the Elves," Elrond said, "for
it is Windows-compatible, and freeware at that." --H.F.

http://gabrielle.sytes.net/mefa The Middle-Earth Fanfiction Awards
Blog: http://www.ainaechoiriel.blogspot.com






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