GISHWHES comedown, minutiae

[nicccc]

GISHWHES ended approximately 20.5 hours ago, and it's still all that's floating round up in my mindtank. I'm still thinking of tasks, what can be done to accomplish them, things I need to tell my team, and then I'm struck with the realisation Riiiiight, no need for that any longer. Even when I slept yesterday following the conclusion of the hunt

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[mmailliw]

That sounds like it was intense, and congratulations on getting the job despite everything!

[nicccc]

So intense!

It was odd - the arc of Sunday through Tuesday was a bit of a laze, as I experienced it. And then Wednesday hit, and it with it came the realisation that there were only so many hours left to accomplish the 156 items between the 15 of us (well, 14, really - there was one girl on our team we ended up never hearing from). Plans fell through, and thus began the scrambles of seeing who else could fill in.

We were pretty well organised, I think. I constantly stayed on the spreadsheet we made and our facebook page when I was on the computer, but even with the best organisation in the world, GISHWHES does its damndest to make it fall apart.

It's one of those things where you are definitely better served if you're a doer rather than a thinker. Some items on the list tend to need some planning, but, in the end, it's all about just going out and doing - a bit of winging it, which makes it feel intense. I tend to plot things out ad nauseam - I want for the best, most impressive result, and sometimes I have a hard time

[hugelaurie]

i'm so glad you had a good time doing it! you were magnificent bb! idk if some of the other ppl i dragged in had as good a time. denbigh stepped up at the end and so i feel like she was able to get some fun out of it. idk if nicci and jennifer did though. anyway i'm game for doing it again next year. it's even better with an eager team. i kind of felt like some ppl were too eager but that's better than ppl who abandon and just up and disappear forever. the whole 248194700128937 emails/notifications per hour thing was a bit much though. i will have to remember to shut off notifications so i can have some battery life in my phone during the week. the constant chatter if great if you're on FB when i happens though.

[nicccc]

Aw, thank you! I often felt as though I were not doing enough on it, honestly. My pockets weren't the deepest, so I tried to keep to stuff I could easily cobble together from the mess that is my house, but every time I saw a task I could do, it seemed like someone else was already on it - which is great! - but yeah, I kind of wish I could have done more for the team =). Definitely better to have an over-eager crew than one not at all into it, though, you're right