Yuletide noms, and a personal, one-question poll

Yuletide
The only two for which I had to fill in the character names were "The Wire" and "Without a Clue". Yay! Now to think about which fandoms I'm really prepared to write in. *g* Plus - extra special Cracker-Jack surprise good news I hadn't even considered: my classes end on December 13, which means I have fifteen days before Yuletide with nothing to do - except write! And since about the third week of grad school I've gradually developed iron-clad self-discipline when it comes to time management (after two weeks of "Oh, I can just whip this paper off the night before." Ahem. Grad school != undergraduate. Whoops.) So - someone is gonna get a decent story out of me this year. Heck, I might even have time for *more than two drafts* with the help of a beta or two. Unheard of, for me.

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Poll
I put this poll up a while ago for those who were interested in reading about what it was like to attend a group therapy program for six hours a day, five days a week, for eight months. Since that post, I realized that:

1) I wasn't ready to talk about it objectively at that time; and
2) there have been changes in my life with new friends and old friends and long-lost friends which might affect who is interested and who isn't.

I'm ready to talk now, so I'm putting the poll up for the second and last time. If you're interested and I don't have you friended at the moment (please know it's not personal, as I've stated many a time before), email me privately at tzikeh aaaaaat thechicagoloop daht net and I'll friend you back so you can read the filtered posts. Most of the posts will be about how the program functions, the different activites of each day and their goals, stand-out moments, why it *works* for most people who have depression or anxiety or bi-polar disorder - and boy, it works; I've borne witness to it again and again. But. I will occasionally be posting about how I was forced to look at some very ugly things about myself and what kind of painful work that is (one participant called it "surgery without anesthesia"), and how I've gone on from there with every tool they gave me to slowly build a new person out of a rotted one.

The point of all of the above is: please be kind and keep what I say to yourself. To paraphrase Magnolia (à la Xander) - "Respect the filter!"

[Poll #848714]

ETA I probably won't start posting under the filter until after midterms. Gimme a week or so *g*.