Green Room - Week 14 - Day 3

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Good morning.

Now that shay_writes has dropped out, we stand at 62 contestants.

Let's sit back and consider that for a moment. 62. That's 12 people standing between you and the Top 50. If we *just* lose 5 for the next couple of weeks (the 5 that we have been losing, assuming that there are no more drops or bye-outs), that means we will be there by the end of the month.

But also, consider that it also means that there are 8 people before you will have outlasted *100* other contestants. 100. It boggles MY mind, hopefully it does the same for you.

So if we really do have that short of distance to those points, I should remind everyone again, when we hit the Top 50 mark, all of the byes will go away. No more byes to use.

Also, I've mentioned this in passing in the Green Room over the past week or so a couple times... and so the people who happened to catch it seemed to be working with inside info, but really it was just a case of they saw (and understood) what I said. What did I say? That after 50 we will be having an Intersection. What does that mean? Well I'd imagine the same thing it meant last season.*G*

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Still waiting to hear on who the 3 people with the power to call someone out have picked. Remember, you guys have until 11am EST on Friday to get me that info. (so we can prepare the polls in time).

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Hope everyone has a wonderful day.

Comments

[rosepurr.livejournal.com]

What a long strange trip it's been! I had such *fun* with this week's topic!

Grats on first comment!!!

[ladyozma.livejournal.com]

((HUGS))

[spydielives.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed your entry.

Of course, my addiction is pretty widely known, so I could empathize with yours.

What the heck is an intersection?

[ladyozma.livejournal.com]

Some of us were not here last season... LOL This must be some reality tv term that I don't get since I ignore most of the reality tv out there. They don't have anything like that on Apprentice or Beauty and the Geek. LOL

OK, what the heck? Is anyone tired today? I actually went to bed early. I got more sleep. I actually got a respectable amount of sleep. And I can barely wake up. What is the deal with that?

Should I go back to sleep? LOL

It's wet and cold out there. I think I may boycott life in general. HAHA

Re: What the heck is an intersection?

[rosepurr.livejournal.com]

I've tried to go back and look, but I can't seem to find it. I have no idea.

[chazari.livejournal.com]

They canceled the college due to weather! No work today!!! Although I will be working on some projects, but I don't have to if I don't want.

*booty dance*

[lacombe.livejournal.com]

College wasn't canceled for me last night and it was a miserable, hateful, awful drive home. I couldn't even get up the hill to my house.

[kithan.livejournal.com]

I'm all packed up and ready to go home. I'm half hoping they let me out early but there's still a lot left to train them on, so probably not.

The office down here is 5 minutes away and they don't need me there until 8:30 or 9, so I can sit back and review some work stuff of my own before I go over there.

I think this weekend is going to be a going in the office to work. I can work from home, true, but I can work faster from the office. And the stuff I'm doing, I need files for. Can we go paperless right now?

Have a good day! :)

[worldofcharlie.livejournal.com]

*hands you a pepsi*

*Mutters about an all day meeting*

[worldofcharlie.livejournal.com]

How inappropriate would bringing popcorn to an all day meeting be???

I think very -- I know that these group of folks - when in the same room - some have to stay separated at opposite ends of the room to keep them from strangling each other.

SO this explains why I want to bring popcorn. Carrie's one of the scribes for the meeting - so she'll have to take notes on whatever drama comes out of it *s*.

Meeting's all fucking day -- nice part about it -- food will be provided.

Oh yes...I'm stocking up on PEPSIs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ummpfftt...

OH yes..It's Bloody HUMP DAY!!! Who's celebrating?

Re: *Mutters about an all day meeting*

[chazari.livejournal.com]

Nothing wrong with bringing popcorn to an all day meeting. Throwing it at the speaker and yelling "Boo! Get off the stage!" would be a problem.

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

Ya know that there are days that I wanna throttle you and others days I wanna give you a big hug. I think today is a throttle day. *grin*

So we had very pretty snow last night that turned to sleet and is now a driving rain. My butt is staying put in my nice warm house while I pick puppet fur out of my teeth from the wrestling match we had yesterday.

[rosepurr.livejournal.com]

Man, you're making me homesick!

[jennieknits.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, after 50. I wonder how soon after 50... Last time it was 10.

[minikin.livejournal.com]

Ooh, a hint!

[kittenboo.livejournal.com]

you would think the dog would pee quicker when there is snow and ice and rain outside, but nooooooo I had to walk her everywhere before she could find a suitable spot this morning.

[lacombe.livejournal.com]

You can't rush a good thing.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Would someone who was here last season please tell us what an Intersection is in game context?

[jennieknits.livejournal.com]

From what I can find, it's when we have two topics. We pair up and one writes one topic, and the other writes the other.

Our votes are totaled, and the team(s) with the lowest vote total(s) are eliminated.

[lacombe.livejournal.com]

There once was a man from Wisconsin,

[tulip-in-yellow.livejournal.com]

Man....do you have any friggin idea how hard it is to come up with a word that rhymes with Wisconsin?

[minikin.livejournal.com]

I'm off to Louisville today for early Valentine's. Which means packing up before I go. And running a couple of errands in-town.

[tulip-in-yellow.livejournal.com]

Can I just say that I'm relieved to have finished my entry. Juggling three different ideas nearly had my brain sizzling.

[spydielives.livejournal.com]

1. Congrats to everyone who has made it this far. It is a testament to your success as writers, stick-with-it-ness, and the respect you have earned from your fellow contestants.

2. Think positive thoughts for me, please? I would not ordinarily ask, but I need to survive the next 24 hours, and friends will be important.

3. Because I forgot to say so yesterday, those who were recently eliminated will be dearly missed.

[jennieknits.livejournal.com]

stick-with-it-ness... is that the technical term?

*hugs*

The current bye counts

[spydielives.livejournal.com]

For those not keeping track, but are still curious, this is what my spreadsheet has before any declared this round.

2 byes left 18
1 bye left 12
no byes left 32

Total Players 62

(Any one have any discrepancies?)

Re: The current bye counts

[jennieknits.livejournal.com]

I had to do some calculating ('cause I had the 2 this round already added into my total), but I think mine matches yours.

[porcelain72.livejournal.com]

While the snow was very pretty last night, the rain has turned it dirty and crappy today, alas.

Working on my post when I can. I was actually considering taking a bye this week as I get accustomed to the new job and all, then decided that it would like kind of odd, considering I picked the alternate topic.

The "intersection" has a lot of potential. I'm hoping we can pick our partners, I predict a significant number of drop-outs if we can't.

[rosepurr.livejournal.com]

It was 70 degrees here yesterday. And it's in the mid-60's today.

Yeah, drop outs may occur.

[chite.livejournal.com]

We had a pretty big ice storm last night. It's very pretty out in a dangerous kind of way. My office is closed and I moved my appointment with the Dulles Area Association of Realtors to tomorrow, so I can just not worry about getting up the hill from my house.

I think the babe and I are going to stay in pajamas today.

[suesniffsglue.livejournal.com]

I have another snow day. Two days in a row the schools were canceled and my home clients told me it was too bad to come out. I haven't gotten a single hour of work all week.

One lady did ask me if I could make up the hours on Friday. First of all, I don't have to if they cancel due to weather, but second, she has TEN home hours! Ten in one day? No way, lady.


The intersection idea is terrifying to me. I couldn't even begin to think who I'd pick. I would actually hope we'd have a partner assigned to us. Then, in school I was usually the kid who hated making that decision and in turn loved when the teacher assigned partners.

[lacombe.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't mind joining up with you either.

[imafarmgirl.livejournal.com]

Having a great day. A snow day. Yay.

If we still have byes left when we hit fifty do they turn into gold stars, or anything? In other words, is there any advantage to not using them?

[baxaphobia.livejournal.com]

I hope so!

[fidget]

Colonoscopy preps suck! I don't want to do this anymore!

[imafarmgirl.livejournal.com]

Oh you poor baby. That's just plain shitty, and sorry for the pun.

Hey Kithan!!

[tdarling.livejournal.com]

(http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/02/06/i-buyed-u-a-pespi/)
moar humorous pics (http://icanhascheezburger.com)

Re: Hey Kithan!!

[chazari.livejournal.com]

*squee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*

[kittenboo.livejournal.com]

mmmm hot chocolate

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

That icon is wonderful! LOL!

A bit twisted but so am I!

[baxaphobia.livejournal.com]

I was going to try to work this song into my entry this week but couldn't do it without letting too much of my cynical side come out. But I thought the song was appropriate to the topic this week so here it is! It's my equivalent of everyone sending silly pictures. Enjoy!

http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/dyom56

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

Was offline all day field-testing some new training material that I wrote. SO glad to be done with it. It went well. I'm realllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllly tired.

Now maybe I can think of this week's entry.

Maybe.