Fic Rush: the two-day ficathon

Round Fred begins this evening! Unless you're east of the GMT time zone, in which case it begins very early tomorrow morning.

I've drawn up a table of anchor posts across the time zones where I know we have current Mod Squad members. It shows the US under Daylight Savings Time and Europe under standard time, as they are at present, and won't be next month and we'll worry about that then.

Arizona is in with PDT.

Mods, please lay claim to anchor posts in the comments.  Feel free to negotiate with/cajole/bribe one another if so inclined, just avoid bloodshed.  The ones in blue are key, although it would be nice to have all anchors in place. I will engage to start and end the round.

Anchor Post Times

	GMT	BST (London)	EDT (Boston)	MDT (Denver)	PDT/AZ (Seattle)	CET (Berlin)	Designated Mod
Hour 1	midnight	midnight	8 pm Fri	6 pm Fri	5 pm Fri	1 am Sat	Beth
Hour 6	5 am Sat	5 am Sat	1 am Sat	11 pm Fri	10 pm Fri	6 am Sat	Turtle
Hour 12	11 am Sat	11 am Sat	7 am Sat	5 am Sat	4 am Sat	noon Sat	Glinda
Hour 18	5 pm Sat	5 pm Sat	1 pm Sat	11 am Sat	10 am Sat	6 pm Sat	Turtle
Hour 24	11 pm Sat	11 pm Sat	7 pm Sat	5 pm Sat	4 pm Sat	midnight	Juliet
Hour 30	5 am Sun	5 am Sun	1 am Sun	11 pm Sat	10 pm Sat	6 am Sun	Turtle
Hour 36	11 am Sun	11 am Sun	7 am Sun	5 am Sun	4 am Sun	noon Sun	Glinda
Hour 42	5 pm Sun	5 pm Sun	1 pm Sun	11 am Sun	10 am Sun	6 pm Sun	Juliet
Hour 47	10 pm Sun	10 pm Sun	6 pm Sun	4 pm Sun	3 pm Sun	11 pm Sun	Beth
Hour 48	11 pm Sun	11 pm Sun	7 pm Sun	5 pm Sun	4 pm Sun	midnight	Beth
Round ends	midnight	midnight	8 pm Sun	6 pm Sun	5 pm Sun	1 am Mon	Beth

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ETA:  Well, that's weird.  My screen shows half the table poking into the post below it.  Trying to fix it.

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The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of modding schedules.  Specifically, it's time for me to update the Master Modding Schedule and ask you talk of many things involving time zones and availability.

If you are a mod, or have modded, or would like to mod, or just want to be well-modulated, please comment on this post and answer the following questions. Please give answers in your own time zone, or in GMT -- and tell me which you're using. Please ignore everyone else's schedule at this time: this is all about YOU.  Because we're all special snowflakes.  Except for Fred, who is a special hailstone.

Please reply even if you've told me this information before and nothing has changed. If I don't hear from you at all, I will take that to mean that you are no longer interested in modding and I'll cry.  If you can't commit to a regular mod shift, but are interested in/willing to do occasional Stunt Mod shifts, please say so, but also answer the questions.

If you have never modded at all, or you've been an Emergency Stunt Mod, or a member of the Fic Rush Highly Irregulars, or a Master Usurper, or you modded in the past and took a break and would like to mod again, this is your chance!  Crack a glowstick!  Set off fireworks!


( here be questions )

It's time, based on my entirely obscure Gaxian almanac, for me to update the Master Modding Schedule and ask Many Nosy Questions about time zones and availability.

If you are a mod, or have modded, or would like to mod, or believe it's a mod mod mod mod world, please answer the following questions.  You can give answers in your own time zone, or in GMT -- just tell me which you're using.  Please ignore everyone else's schedule at this time:  this is all about YOU.

Also, even if you've told me this information before, please reply.  If I don't hear from you at all, I will probably assume you are no longer interested in modding.

- Out of our usual 48 hours, what hours are you NOT EVER available to mod?  (Due to sleeping, regular commitments, etc.)

- Out of our usual 48 hours, what hours are the VERY VERY BEST for you to mod?

- If your schedule is in mad flux, but you're interested anyway, what's your best guess?

- Are you more comfortable with having a set, regular shift that's pretty much the same each weekend, or are you happier with a variable shift, or are you only interested in (or able to commit to) providing occasional emergency coverage?

- Is there a minimum or maximum amount of time that you're comfortable modding?

- Is there anything else I should know about your life that has bearing on this?  (for example:  you're a student and your schedule goes through periodic reshuffling; you're about to move to Australia and start a new job on the night shift; you're an alien with three months left of your holiday here, after which there will be a serious time lag on your internet connection due to relativistic time compression)

- For extra credit, use 'penguin' in a sentence.  Creativity counts.

Round 18 will probably be the 18th and 19th of June.  However:

One of our regular Mod Squad members, lullabymoon, is not available in June at all.  She regularly takes the shift from Sunday 9 am GMT to 1 pm GMT.  Is there anyone who would like to pinch-hit? 

I would especially welcome new mods -- if we have more people in the pool, the existing mods are less likely to get burned out, yaknowwhatImean?

Although the mod is often the Chief Crackmeister of the Hour, this is not actually a requirement of the position.  If you're a writer not a stand-up comedian (Damn it Jim!) and you've been hesitating to offer on this account, please, hesitate no longer!

ETA:  If you're interested in modding, I will ask for the following information:

- your time zone (That's a big part of how I manage the calendar)
- your general preferences and limitations (Do you work till 5 on Friday?  Go to church on Sunday?  On Saturday?  Sleep in till noon?  Get to bed by midnight?  Stay up till 2 am on weekends?)
- your specific preferences (Are you always online on Sunday afternoon?  Usually bored on Saturday morning?)

Unless otherwise specified, I will begin by assuming that you are not available between 1 am and 9 am in your own timezone, that you work till 5 pm on Friday, and that you do not work on Saturday or Sunday; so I really want to know if those assumptions don't hold.

Also, none of this is ever set in stone; you will never get flack from me when your availibility changes.

Any questions?  Problems?  Requests to affiliate, promote, bake cookies?  Anything need attention?

Ask here or PM the comm owner, lolmac.