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thessalian) wrote2005-01-08 11:10 am
thessalian) wrote2005-01-08 11:10 am
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Awhile ago, I mentioned that ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
lain_icons was running another icon creation contest, and that I was entering a few. The winners have just been announced. And I'd be a lot more excited about having won in two categories if those two hadn't had default winners -- i.e. no one else submitted in those categories. Oh well. While it's a shame that the concept for the animated one, which I adapted from an icon ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nightskywarlock did awhile ago, didn't get a chance to stand up against others, it's still kind of nifty. So I'm an icon contest winner now, if only by default. Go, me.
Actually, by-default stuff seems to happen to me a fair bit. When I was going to St Chris, I decided to stand for Student Council Secretary (obviously in preparation for a life of secretarial drudgery later on). No one else stood, so I was elected by default. I refused to do it the next term, but the term after that, the only person who was willing to stand was a guy with a reputation for a short burst of enthusiasm for a project followed by months if not years of extended idleness and incompetence, so half the Council came up to me and begged me to do it. I did, we talked him out of standing (wasn't hard, after I told him exactly what the job entailed) and there I was elected by default again.
Same deal when I took the job with the MDA. Out of the eight applicants, two turned up to the interview, and one of them lied on his job app and the testing procedure proved him inept. Again, a winner was me, but by default again.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, I guess. It's nice to win against competition, but it's not exactly my fault that no one else submitted. Because, hell, if they had, I'd have had my icon-making arse whupped good and proper; I'm really only a relatively skilled novice at this. Just goes to show the importance of actually trying.
lain_icons was running another icon creation contest, and that I was entering a few. The winners have just been announced. And I'd be a lot more excited about having won in two categories if those two hadn't had default winners -- i.e. no one else submitted in those categories. Oh well. While it's a shame that the concept for the animated one, which I adapted from an icon nightskywarlock did awhile ago, didn't get a chance to stand up against others, it's still kind of nifty. So I'm an icon contest winner now, if only by default. Go, me.Actually, by-default stuff seems to happen to me a fair bit. When I was going to St Chris, I decided to stand for Student Council Secretary (obviously in preparation for a life of secretarial drudgery later on). No one else stood, so I was elected by default. I refused to do it the next term, but the term after that, the only person who was willing to stand was a guy with a reputation for a short burst of enthusiasm for a project followed by months if not years of extended idleness and incompetence, so half the Council came up to me and begged me to do it. I did, we talked him out of standing (wasn't hard, after I told him exactly what the job entailed) and there I was elected by default again.
Same deal when I took the job with the MDA. Out of the eight applicants, two turned up to the interview, and one of them lied on his job app and the testing procedure proved him inept. Again, a winner was me, but by default again.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, I guess. It's nice to win against competition, but it's not exactly my fault that no one else submitted. Because, hell, if they had, I'd have had my icon-making arse whupped good and proper; I'm really only a relatively skilled novice at this. Just goes to show the importance of actually trying.