I got rejected for Emperor Penguins, and am now feeling pretty stupid about how sad I am/was over it. I am thinking that I may simply make a fansite for them as an outlet for my love. I have a domain name in mind, but I can't afford any additional ones right now, so I will probably hold off on that, or maybe see if someone is offering subdomain hosting with a name that would fit nicely.

The current to-do list, with deadlines, is: American Studies (July 5), Etymology (July 24), Names (July 24), and "The Road Not Taken" (July 25). I've been asininely lucky with approvals recently, so it just makes me feel even stupider about being so disappointed over one. (Granted, that was one kinda "the" one, but still.) I'm feeling pretty good about my schedule and am happy it's summer, so that I can make these listings more than just membership-based and instead more content-heavy. I also have two namelistings (Carrick and Seanan), but those are pretty quick and simple to do. :)

A little while after getting my rejection e-mail, I saw that German went back up for adoption. I've already applied twice and been denied, but as I said in my application, I clearly already know what it feels like to be rejected, so the prospect of it is less scary for this listing. :) As with others recently, I have a ton of things I'd love to do with it, but we'll see how it goes. :) I'm not a native speaker, which in some ways makes me feel like a native speaker is more deserving by default, but at the same times, I feel like chosen love is something really special, so no matter which way it goes, I think it should be great. :) I'm hoping it gets some awesome applications!

If I don't get any applications by tomorrow, I'm going to close Newsweek. :( I don't feel like I can quite bring myself to close Emiliana, Afterglow, or the Misogynists HL, so those will stay up. I've actually be listening to a lot more Emiliana lately and am now feeling like it's not one I would really want to part with, so that's a good thing. :) But boy, does it need a layout! So those might be some other summer projects for me.

Everything is still working its way over – except for the hatelistings and physical listings, which will stay here – but it's taking a lot longer than I anticipated, simply because I haven't had as much time to work on it all as I'd like. I've also been busy participating in Summer Santa, so that's taking up a lot of the free time I'd otherwise have to work on things. The good thing is, it's not like there's any deadline for these things. :) And I'd rather go slow and do it right than rush things.

I finished the "Gravity" fanlisting using a different style of layout than I usually would – black and white, a very simple (and unrelated) header image – but I like it. I'm hoping to finish up American Studies tomorrow, and then I also need to figure out what it is in my CSS for one of my standard layouts (and the only one I use for namelistings) that Enthusiast hates. I think it's something in the header text lines, but we'll see; I need to really play with it some more.

This is definitely the most growth my collective has ever experienced all at once, and while I'm loving it and am so happy to finally have the time available to apply for and work on listings I've wanted for a while, I admit that I'll be pretty happy when it's over. :) I never thought I'd have many listings at all, and while I'm so far away from being one of the largest collective owners, it still feels really big to me. I love all of them, but a break will be good. :)