ZOMG AN END OF SUMMER IDOL GATHERING!!!!

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From the Intern ewok_626,

I was late to work this morning.  Stuck behind a school bus.  Ahh, the first day of school.  New beginnings.  Seeing old friends.  Making new friends.  Meeting your teacher for the first time.  Seeing where your new desk was.  Wearing the new outfit that you just HAD to have.  Being able to open that spiffy new backpack to pull out the new school supplies that your parents had packed the night before.  And then realizing that the cafeteria food has not, in fact, gotten any better since the last school year.

September is only two days away.  Meaning that our fifth season of Idol is around the corner!  More new beginnings!  Meeting new contestants.  Meeting up with the other crazies veterans.  Getting the new topics.  And for the love, there will be GREEN ROOMS!!!  (Which means that I will again be feeding everyone!)

Be watching for the sign-ups, as Gary will randomly just post them without prior reminders.  And be sure to encourage all those around you to join in the insanity crazy awesome fun!  Start getting those creative juices flowing!  The more participants, the better!  Don't be afraid to take the plunge!

And for the record, August 31st is the last day for me to be LJ_Idol Intern.  As of September 1st, I will just be another player like everyone else.  I'm giving up my posting priviledges so that I can play Season Five! 

And since it's lunchtime in the EST...
~Cheese-stuffed shells
~Meat and cheese rigatoni
~Fried chicken
~Breadsticks
~Tossed and ceasar salads and dressings
~Potato, macaroni, and pasta salad
~Cookies, puddings, brownies, and angel food cake
~Drinks in the cooler 

So how's everyone doing today?  Any plans for your Labor Day weekend?  Is there anyone who has to work on Monday?  And for the love... WHERE ARE THE CHEETOS?!

*free hugs for all*
~Intern Wok

 

Comments

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Coming up in the next few weeks, Gary (clauderainrsm the moderator) will be posting a sign-up sheet where everyone who wants to participate can sign up. Gary is also working on an FAQ (which will also be posted soon) which will answer most of your questions.

How it works: a rough sketch.
Gary will post a topic. (say it's FIRE) Then he will post a due date. You will then have until the due date to write an entry in your own journal based on the topic. (Fire could equal campfires, a burning building, fire of love in your heart, or even fireballs candy. It's your interpretation.) Entries can be written in any form (prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, etc). Then you will post the link to your entry back in the topic comments (we'll explain how we do that later on). Once the due date has passed, Gary or Kithan (his asst.) will post a poll. You'll have till "such and such a time" to read all of the entries and cast your votes. (Yes, you can vote for as many entries as you like!) Once the voting closes, Gary will announce the winner and the loser(s). The losers will be out of the game, and then Gary will give us a new topic. And then the chaos starts all over again.

Usually in the first few weeks, Gary tries to give us the topic on a Monday and deadline is Friday. Then Friday the polls go up and voting ends Monday. Once you get your feet wet in the first week or so, then you'll be okay. But beware. Gary likes to throw us curveballs. Like immunity, different deadlines, special powers to affect voting, among others. You can look back through the prior seasons to see the topics used, how we linked, and how everything is set up.

The winner of the whole season is the one who outlasts and outwits everyone else. Winner receives a cool icon and bragging rights about being the winner. (No money prizes or anything.) But we don't do it for the prize. Most of us do it to meet other people and to get ourselves writing again.

Glad to have you this season! Don't fret. I was a newbie last season. If you want, you can go back through my Idol entries and read them to see what I was writing about. My favorite topic: Fears

And as for the food? I'm dating an Italian. He'd eat grap if there was red sauce on it... so I'm always making italian food anyway. ;)