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bad signet, no biscuit
The official policy is that when a backlog scroll is assigned, it should be completed within 6 months. The actual policy is more like "if I haven't heard back from you with a status report after 9mo. - 1 year, I'll email to see if you want it reassign", and if I get back info that the scroll is in active progress, I won't reassign. There's two reasons for this -- one, a scroll that is actually in process is that much closer to being completed than one that is not started at all, and two, I don't really have enough scribes to be passing around assignments like that; if I have a scribe free for a backlog, there's probably some unassigned one available.
But still, I do try to keep up on things and get updates regularly so that if the recipient emails me I can give them some info, and I also try to complete the backlogs that I've assigned to myself in a relatively prompt fashion. Most of the time this works, because I take on ones that I either have a blank on hand for that I can use, or because it's for someone I know and I'm excited and motivated to do it. But even when that's the case, sometimes things go off the rails. There's a backlog panache that I started awhile back and got so very close to finishing; essentially, I had 8 flowers, 3 buds, and a handful of gold dots to do. And yet...I only completed it today. The last time I worked on this scroll was a year ago May. Ugh. It took me less than an hour to complete; this could have been done months ago. But sometimes, motivations, desire, and simple ability to look at my exemplar and see how to finish up the remaining bits don't all line up.
Anyway, it's finished, and so I no longer have that hanging over my head. This current reign has not been giving out awards anywhere near as prolifically as the last two, so I'm hoping that we can spend this period working on the backlog. I'm down to 115 on the backlog (it was over 175 a year and a half ago, so I'm very happy with this), and all upcoming awards have been assigned. Not too bad. Maybe next weekend I can try to finish up another one...maybe one a weekend every weekend I'm free? Wouldn't that be nice.
But still, I do try to keep up on things and get updates regularly so that if the recipient emails me I can give them some info, and I also try to complete the backlogs that I've assigned to myself in a relatively prompt fashion. Most of the time this works, because I take on ones that I either have a blank on hand for that I can use, or because it's for someone I know and I'm excited and motivated to do it. But even when that's the case, sometimes things go off the rails. There's a backlog panache that I started awhile back and got so very close to finishing; essentially, I had 8 flowers, 3 buds, and a handful of gold dots to do. And yet...I only completed it today. The last time I worked on this scroll was a year ago May. Ugh. It took me less than an hour to complete; this could have been done months ago. But sometimes, motivations, desire, and simple ability to look at my exemplar and see how to finish up the remaining bits don't all line up.
Anyway, it's finished, and so I no longer have that hanging over my head. This current reign has not been giving out awards anywhere near as prolifically as the last two, so I'm hoping that we can spend this period working on the backlog. I'm down to 115 on the backlog (it was over 175 a year and a half ago, so I'm very happy with this), and all upcoming awards have been assigned. Not too bad. Maybe next weekend I can try to finish up another one...maybe one a weekend every weekend I'm free? Wouldn't that be nice.