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survey + whining
Thu, Nov. 18th, 2004 00:30Stolen from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rianax
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Whining one: I am BORED. and lonely. If anyone feels like IMing me, i'm on AIM, screen name Askerian. I promise I don't bite.
Whining two: Kitty Chou is a great beta (and a good friend beside), but she's been getting more and more busy lately, and I don't feel right asking my Jos or my SaH girls to beta my stuff. Not that they don't do a good job, but Kitty does an EXCELLENT job. And she has so much stuff going on right now, I always feel guilty asking her, and then expecting the stuff to come back to me just as fast as before. Because everyone knows I am a review whore and ideally the beta should always be at my beck and call. :P
I don't know if i should officially release her and search for another beta or not. Because she never complains, but I get the feeling it's starting to bore her, or she wants to but just can't, and my whining/pleading about it doesn't help. *sigh* I'm scared I'll end up with someone who just isn't used to the way i always tweak the english language, or thinks it doesn't matter so much that my grammar is sometimes weird so long as I get my point across (and it doesn't, but only when i MEAN to tweak the grammar rules, and i don't always and i'm not sure most people can tell which is which). I'm not a native english speaker, which means I don't FEEL when a word or a structure just sounds sort of weird. And it bugs me.
That and I don't want people to apply and then realize that they can't stomach some of my pairings, or follow my fandoms, or *gasp* who aren't good enough for me. Because how do I tell a beta (someone who isn't paid to help, and most of the time gets almost no recognition, but does it anyway?) that his/her corrections suck and I have a better grasp on english vocabulary, grammar and spelling than they do? The few times I asked for help, people were quick enough replying, and they seemed happy to have an occasion to help, and I don't like going all "you're not good enough for me". U_U;;;;;
I sound like such a control freak. XP
rianax( Read more... )
Whining one: I am BORED. and lonely. If anyone feels like IMing me, i'm on AIM, screen name Askerian. I promise I don't bite.
Whining two: Kitty Chou is a great beta (and a good friend beside), but she's been getting more and more busy lately, and I don't feel right asking my Jos or my SaH girls to beta my stuff. Not that they don't do a good job, but Kitty does an EXCELLENT job. And she has so much stuff going on right now, I always feel guilty asking her, and then expecting the stuff to come back to me just as fast as before. Because everyone knows I am a review whore and ideally the beta should always be at my beck and call. :P
I don't know if i should officially release her and search for another beta or not. Because she never complains, but I get the feeling it's starting to bore her, or she wants to but just can't, and my whining/pleading about it doesn't help. *sigh* I'm scared I'll end up with someone who just isn't used to the way i always tweak the english language, or thinks it doesn't matter so much that my grammar is sometimes weird so long as I get my point across (and it doesn't, but only when i MEAN to tweak the grammar rules, and i don't always and i'm not sure most people can tell which is which). I'm not a native english speaker, which means I don't FEEL when a word or a structure just sounds sort of weird. And it bugs me.
That and I don't want people to apply and then realize that they can't stomach some of my pairings, or follow my fandoms, or *gasp* who aren't good enough for me. Because how do I tell a beta (someone who isn't paid to help, and most of the time gets almost no recognition, but does it anyway?) that his/her corrections suck and I have a better grasp on english vocabulary, grammar and spelling than they do? The few times I asked for help, people were quick enough replying, and they seemed happy to have an occasion to help, and I don't like going all "you're not good enough for me". U_U;;;;;
I sound like such a control freak. XP
