Green Room - Week 7 - Weekend Edition

[clauderainsrm]

The deadline is on Monday. So make sure you are working on your entries sometime between now and then. (preferably not Monday with a half hour to go. :D You know if I'm talking about you... yes, you do.  ;)  ) 

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How has your weekend been going so far? 

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I was in the breakroom at lunch on Friday when I see my boss come in looking for me.  She let me know that I had dropped my badge, and it had been placed on my chair.  She just didn't want me to leave the building without realizing that the badge had fallen out of the holder and not be able to get back in.  I had been warned that this wasn't uncommon for the "side badge holders" and you just needed to keep an eye on it. And I had been... apparently right up until I didn't.  

I thought that was really nice of her, went back to my desk after lunch and grabbed my badge. Then we found one of the top loading pouches, which are more secure and now I have a better way of displaying my badge. 

None of this is very interesting. But the punchline is that later I found out that the person who found my badge *wasn't* my boss. It was HERS.  The guy who initially didn't want to hire me.  :O  (He's fine with me now... or at least he was until I became the clueless guy who goes around dropping his access badge. I haven't ran into him since then, apparently he was cool about it. But now I have that in my head!  :D 

(Like I said though, apparently this is something that happens with those types of badge holders. No idea why they still issue them instead of the better ones. Unless it's all an elaborate hazing ritual.  :D) 

Comments

[bleodswean]

Welp. I think you know me well enough by now to know that I loathe exclusivity and inclusivity and how hurtful it is to others. I think it's a horrid idea and never see the point when this sort of thing is pitched. It is premised off a belief that those who aren't invited want to observe???

[murielle]

I hadn't thought of it like that though I figured out right away I wouldn't be included I thought I'd pop in to cheer on my buds. As a relative newbie (9 years don't know how many seasons)

I know I'm neither a legend nor whatever the other was.

When you put it like that, it puts an entirely new slant on it.

[pixiebelle]

Interesting, because you’re definitely a name I associate with Idol. Meaning you’re familiar to me. I feel like you’ve been around awhile.

[murielle]

Thank you! That means a lot. :-)

[clauderainsrm]

I'm not going to say that the point is "one last hurrah as nod to the 20 years of Idol" but I'm also not going to say that idea isn't heavy on my mind that I can't see getting to 25. That's "what's the point of it" is kind of what I've been playing with, being that the whole thing would just be me giving myself an excuse to invite some old friends to play in the sandbox one more time with some of my new friends. :)

It's a couple years off from now either way. Just something I'm throwing around as something to motivate myself to get there.

[bleodswean]

I think your position on it makes sense! And it's your circus, G, always has been, so it's your monkeys to wrangle! I'm sure you will come up with the perfect approach!

[clauderainsrm]

It's my circus, but if the clowns don't show up, it's not much of a show. ;)

[bleodswean]

LOL!!!!

[clauderainsrm]

Seriously though, I do appreciate the feedback. It helps me think of things from a new perspective. (that doesn't mean I'm going to listen to it. :D But it does help me in the process of figuring out what it is I want to do. )