Conflicting goals...

Have you ever had one of those days in which you realized you have a lot of things to do in very little time? So in order to meet your goals suddenly your whole schedule has to change and you have to get yourself organized? That's how it has been for me in the last 12 hours. You see, I decided to go along with Lisa's idea of the weekly goals. So after looking at the contest schedule, yesterday I posted my goals for what remains of this week, which consisted in working on the Phaze - Surge story for the next 5 days. The edit the remaining 5 days, and finally submit the story. But just today it hit me that Cobblestone Press is opening its submission tomorrow. Oh-oh... This definively screwed my schedule. Decisions...decisions...decisions... I hate when this happens. If I want to submit my vampire erotic romance to Cobblestone Press by tomorrow, I have to spend editing and adding scenes today and tomorrow. Which pushes my Phaze - Surge story back 2 days. Not good... Or is it? *sighs* I must be frank; I'm rather disappointed with the contests. It's not that I expect them to send emails to the losers with details on why their stories didn't make it. But it should be common courtesy to at least send a generic (even impersonal) email saying, "Thanks for participating. We are not interested in your story at this moment. However, we hope..." However, this policy of not sending an email to the losers seems a bit rude. So I've been debating whether to enter the Phaze's contest or not. And then when taking into consideration that I'll be submitting for Cobblestone Press in which at least I'd get a letter for certain, the priority shifted.