About September I decided that November was my deadline for grad school apps so that I could do NaNo. Then about mid-October I decided that it was more important to have a good statement of purpose instead of one I'd slapped together to have done by 1 November, plus I didn't really need another half-finished crappy first draft of something. I already have like seven of them. So I decided that I was just going to go to the write-ins that were reasonably close to me and work on bingo fic.

Which I guess is good practice for writing statements of purpose, the advice about which I've read amounts to "IT HAS TO BE PERFECT and no matter what you write, YOUR FIRST DRAFT WILL ALWAYS BE BABY-PUNCHINGLY WRONG," because I'm trying to scrabble and get the thirteen thousand fics I've started and edited half to death done before amnesty runs out.

(But you give those spacecats some work to do. They're good stuff.)