3 Things

 
1. The weekend is coming to a close, but it was a nice one with mostly good autumn weather. And a great game night Saturday!

2. I'm going to a vigil in support of sexual assault survivors tonight

3. And in the fandom arena, two nice things happened today. Someone released deleted scenes from Season 5, including a great FitzSimmons scene. And my sister is totally into the show now and has been emailing me some thoughts. 

The state of the Ann

 
My name's not Ann, but once a month or so my friend Ann posts about the general state of her life. And I figure I could do something more than just gratitude lists, so here goes.

Career
Job is good. Except I need to really think of ways to step it up. A couple months ago, we let "our weakest link" go, and replaced her with someone way better. I too often feel like the weakest link now. I need to turn it out more! I feel like the rest of the team is prettier and better at their jobs than I am. I know, I know - I just need to brush those thoughts aside and focus on performing better

Relationships
All good, nothing too exciting. I wish Doris were home more but her Mom's been in Mexico taking care of her dad since - like, idk - August? So Doris and her brother have to run her mom's tortilla company in their spare time. Which means that Doris, who already works long hours at her own job, isn't home as much as I want. But hey, she had Saturday off and we spent it together, and we spent most of Sunday together till she had to go do Payroll. So that's something.

Activism
Also good, been doing a lot of phone banking and I reserved 2 Saturdays to canvas. But activism is like wanting reviews of your fanfic because just as I always want more reviews, I always can and should do more activism! 


Fandom
Fandom is great. With this current fandom, there seem to be minimal downsides and many positives. I'm really enjoying it. I'd break it down this way:

Positives
- Friendly people
- Especially my beta J who seems to love everything I do, and gives great, detailed feedback
- Been writing a lot. I wrapped up the first draft of my last fic a few days ago and haven't written anything since, but I'm sure sooner or later another idea will come knocking
- We are getting a Season 6!
- Some great things (and one very bad thing) happened to my OTP last season. Overall I'm happy though, with how they've been treated on the show. Any time I see a list of Best Couples in the MCU, they're always on top


Downsides
- Some fans have been in it so long that they might be a bit clique-ish. 
- I always wish my fics had more reviews/comments. And as great as J is, I spend too much time wishing for another message from her. (I haven't heard from J for 24 hours, oh noes! That sort of thing) 
- It's a fandom which means by definition I spend too much time on it
- Like I said, something very bad did happen to my OTP last season, but they did say on the show that they have a way to fix it

I wonder what will happen when Season 2 of Star Trek Discovery comes out in January. It was my last fandom and my last OTP before this one. Weirdly, when the first season ended, I dropped it like a hot potato which is not something I usually do. Will I pick it up again?