As this is as good an arbitrary milestone as any, I thought it would be a good time to start this saga. The world has gone arse over teapot in the last month, and with all the darkness, hurt, rage and fear blustering around, holding on to the bright points makes it a little easier. Plus cute animal videos, but I think that’s a given.
Since the blog will be primarily to chronicle my TAFF trip let’s talk about that. As I said, the world is a scary place right now, so it’s nice to be able to plan for something positive. And boy am I (over)planning!
Over the last 18 months or so I’ve started getting anxiety,
which has steadily gotten more invasive. So, to avoid as much travel angst as
possible, I am trying to make sure I have everything that could cause worry
sorted before I go. Or to put it another way, I’m worrying now so hopefully I
won’t need to worry later!
The thing is, I’ve done other long trips that involved lots
of travelling in between, but this will be the first time I’m doing it ‘alone’.
In the past I don’t think this would have really been much of an issue, but now
there is this odd weight behind every decision made, because it’s ‘all’ my
responsibility. Of course logically, I know this isn’t true. I have the support
of not only the current TAFF team, but past administrators and the wider
fannish community, not to mention close friends and family (some of whom count
on other lists as well!). Having that support has been a great touchstone when
the planning spiral starts! So far there aren’t many disaster scenarios I’ve
been able to come up with which don’t have a solution, even if it’s just to
contact Jim/Curt/Claire/John/James/Liz immediately for them to fix ;).
So in the spirit of focusing on the positive, instead of a
To-Do list, here is my To-Done list…or just a Done list since that makes more sense…
