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So, we advertised on TLC today for some new editors.

I'm up late sorting through the MANYMANYMANY applications and am sort of bumfuzzled...people who work at BBC, ESPN, have worked on television and in radio and at newspapers around the country and in other countries...people who are teachers and moms and students and research associates and photo specialists...all of them sending in great and heartfelt messages. I want to make a giant team of all these people and use them for everything.

And then there are the people I know. This is what has astonished me most. Not just the people whose names I recognize, but the ones I really know; someone in my own newsroom, for instance, someone who is one of the first people I met in fandom; someone I work with regularly; I would love nothing more than to work with these people but they pose a tremendous ethical problem (most of them do, anyway). And then I wonder if it's fair that good ethics should get in the way of good editors, and decide that it's not, and that we'll just have to be extra careful that the same judgment bar gets applied to everyone. But the safest way is to just adhere to strict ethics, as always.

I'm just astonished at how many people want to work on the site. I had no idea. I mean, no, I take that back, I did, but this is quantifying it in such real and flattering way that I'm taken aback.

And for all this talent, I have no guarantee I'm going to find anyone like Sue, who was a find from heaven and who I love to death, who works her ass off for the site and does it out of sheer, pure, love and nothing else - who better damn well know how much I love her.

And that's all for this evening. The resume pile is staggering. The editing pile getting even more staggering. I'm doing some of that before bed, Aimee and Justin. (Can anyone tell I owe Aimee and Justin some editing? I do.)