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Hello all. Missed me? I'm sure you have as I've hardly been around in the
last few months. I'm sorry for that. I created the MEFAs and ran them last
year and planned to do so this year. Real life is sometimes funny that way.
Just so it's clear, I'll state my reasons. For one, I finally found a man
I'm likely to marry. It's funny how having someone else makes you spend so
much time away from a computer. But it id. We'd find ourselves talking
until very late in the evening and e-mails would go unread. And then there
was the death of my brother-in-law, which really messed with my scheduule
and ability to think straight. I'm very grateful for Sulriel and Marta
stepping in for me there.

Thirdly, I got in trouble at work for doing too much non-work. I would get
SO much done at work more than I would at home. I could control all my home
computers from work, run the group, the MEFA2005 site, reply to personal
e-mails, glean through my spam for the more legitimate mail, work on my
paper mail (from the house), surf the internet, read stories, etc.... This
spring I had actually started to feel guilty about how much non-work I was
doing there. Well, it was finally noticed and I was properly chastised.
Now I do a lot less other stuff (though, honestly, I haven't stopped
completely). Reading stories can be done because I can copy them to Word.
It could be just any other document on my desktop. Reading a bunch of
non-work e-mails though is far less surrepticious and more likely to cause
me to get chastised quite properly again. This it's 9 hours less I can keep
up with the MEFAs.

And now, that boyfriend has turned into a fiance an we are planning a
wedding to take place in March, just 6 months from now. As you might
imagine, I'm quite busy and only going to get busier. This was decided on
Monday and on Tuesday I felt like I'd been hit by a truck. Stress tightened
up the muscles of my neck so that I could barely move my head.

Since it does not seem that I can regain the administrative availability
that I used to have, I've decided to delagate more authority to Marta and
Sulriel. Marta will be the Deputy Administrator of this group while Sulriel
will be Deputy Administrator of the MEFA2005 site. Both have a lot of
authority now, but one is more task-oriented and suited to the mechanics of
the site, and the other has more time to devote to this group.

I will still be around and may pipe up when Marta sends me word of important
decisions. I'll still try to post all the reviews every night and even try
to post one of my reviews now and then. I'll be around when I have time to
be, but alas, there comes a time when RealLife wins out over even a beloved
part of fandom.

--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> http://gabrielle.sytes.net/mefa The
Middle-Earth Fanfiction Awards

Blog: <http://www.ainaechoiriel.blogspot.com/>
http://www.ainaechoiriel.blogspot.com



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Congratulations! Fandom's great, but real life is more important. Good
luck with your wedding and I hope you every happiness. :D



Ariel

www.bagendwest.net



-----Original Message-----
From: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com [mailto:MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Ainaechoiriel
Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 12:31 AM
To: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [MEFAwards] A note from the Founder




Hello all. Missed me? I'm sure you have as I've hardly been around in
the
last few months. I'm sorry for that. I created the MEFAs and ran them
last
year and planned to do so this year. Real life is sometimes funny that
way.
Just so it's clear, I'll state my reasons. For one, I finally found a
man
I'm likely to marry. It's funny how having someone else makes you spend
so
much time away from a computer. But it id. We'd find ourselves talking
until very late in the evening and e-mails would go unread. And then
there
was the death of my brother-in-law, which really messed with my
scheduule
and ability to think straight. I'm very grateful for Sulriel and Marta
stepping in for me there.

Thirdly, I got in trouble at work for doing too much non-work. I would
get
SO much done at work more than I would at home. I could control all my
home
computers from work, run the group, the MEFA2005 site, reply to personal
e-mails, glean through my spam for the more legitimate mail, work on my
paper mail (from the house), surf the internet, read stories, etc....
This
spring I had actually started to feel guilty about how much non-work I
was
doing there. Well, it was finally noticed and I was properly
chastised.
Now I do a lot less other stuff (though, honestly, I haven't stopped
completely). Reading stories can be done because I can copy them to
Word.
It could be just any other document on my desktop. Reading a bunch of
non-work e-mails though is far less surrepticious and more likely to
cause
me to get chastised quite properly again. This it's 9 hours less I can
keep
up with the MEFAs.

And now, that boyfriend has turned into a fiance an we are planning a
wedding to take place in March, just 6 months from now. As you might
imagine, I'm quite busy and only going to get busier. This was decided
on
Monday and on Tuesday I felt like I'd been hit by a truck. Stress
tightened
up the muscles of my neck so that I could barely move my head.

Since it does not seem that I can regain the administrative availability
that I used to have, I've decided to delagate more authority to Marta
and
Sulriel. Marta will be the Deputy Administrator of this group while
Sulriel
will be Deputy Administrator of the MEFA2005 site. Both have a lot of
authority now, but one is more task-oriented and suited to the mechanics
of
the site, and the other has more time to devote to this group.

I will still be around and may pipe up when Marta sends me word of
important
decisions. I'll still try to post all the reviews every night and even
try
to post one of my reviews now and then. I'll be around when I have time
to
be, but alas, there comes a time when RealLife wins out over even a
beloved
part of fandom.

--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> http://gabrielle.sytes.net/mefa The
Middle-Earth Fanfiction Awards

Blog: <http://www.ainaechoiriel.blogspot.com/>
http://www.ainaechoiriel.blogspot.com



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--- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, "Ainaechoiriel"
<mefaadmin@e...> wrote:

For one, I finally found a man I'm likely to marry. It's funny how
having someone else makes you spend so much time away
from a computer. But it id. We'd find ourselves talking until very
late in the evening and e-mails would go unread.

Sounds lovely. *smiles* Congratulations!!

Thirdly, I got in trouble at work for doing too much non-work.

I must confess I always wondered last year how you did this
enormous amount of organization for the MEFA's done. So you're
a normal human being after all?Never mind - there's always a
life "beyond", isn't it?

Cúthalion