thistlechaser | The thickness of cauldron bottoms *is* important! (Reply)

In a lot of ways, I identify with Percy. I'm rather obsessive (or anal, depending on who you ask) about getting things done and doing them on time. I would go insane in the Weasley house, I'd just kill off all my siblings until it was all nice and organized and quiet.

At work I tend to get all the time-based jobs: Reports that need to go out at X time every weekday, reboots that have to happen every X morning, emails that need to be sent out X times a day. I'm happy to do those sorts of things not just because I can and I am timely, but because it would drive me crazy because others are not as exact about it.

So the point of this (there is a point! Really!) is that I got tapped on the shoulder to act as challenge-posting mod in the

hp100 writing group. All that's required of me is the ability to count and to do some work every Monday. No biggie, I could do it in my sleep. Only thing I didn't think about (until a day after I submitted my name) was that I'd know the challenges ahead of time, and so that would be something less to look forward to on Monday... but I think my lack of stress in worrying if the post would it up on Monday is worth the trade-off. (And that's honest, I did stress over it. It's not even my darned group, but I worried about things getting done on time.)

I know where this need to be exact and need to be perfectly on time comes from: my mother was totally the opposite, she can't get somewhere on time if her life depended on it. My sister and I never ever got to childhood events (plays, sports, whatever we did) on time. It made us crazy. Now that I'm older I understand why it happened (she trying to work full time and raise the both of us all by herself), but it made my sister and I totally uptight about being on time to the second.

Edited to add: This also explains why