Green Room - Week 5 - Day 4

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I am almost out of my apartment. There are still some major things to be moved – not the least of which are my cats. But I’m more “out” than I am “in” right now.

This is the place that I moved into 10 years ago, after my divorce. It made me into “the guy who lived over the ice cream shop”, which became a huge piece of how I was identified.

I’m moving away from the city where I’ve spent the last 29 years of my life – from the county where I’ve spend the last 31. It’s bittersweet, because I *know* that I am gaining things that I could only dream about (I received my first Father’s Day card yesterday!) but I’m also saying goodbye to a large chunk of my life as I knew it.

So please excuse me if I seem a little “off” this month. ;)

Between that and the toothache, well, I AM a little “off”.

Awkward transition – the people who *aren’t* off are the ones who have already posted their entries: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/663790.html I know that some of you had a difficult time, but man, the people who have posted so far (that I have read) have raised the bar! The deadline is tonight. So I’m looking forward to seeing what the rest of you come up with!

Vote - Week 5

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A few words from clauderainsrm:

The Summer continues to take it’s toll, like a long walk through the Red Waste. The topics took their own toll, with some rising to the challenge while driving others insane. Well, more insane than they already were... which many doubted was possible!

Somehow though, most people did make it across to the Promised Land of the poll. “Most”, but not all. bringing_words, emileonus and myrna_bird notified me that real life was taking them out.

While the elements got to annaonthemoon, barrelofrain, bewize, cacophonesque, i_id, jennickels and sweeny_todd

forcing them to collapse in a heap within sight of their goal.

They will most definitely be missed, and I hope whenever the heat stroke wears off, that they will be able to continue to Home Game, as well as supporting their favorites in the entries, and hanging out in the Green Room!

As for those who got here - first off, congratulations. Second off, welcome to your new tribes!

How were they decided? You did it yourselves, when I told you to declare your topics last week. The tribes have been broken down by what you posted on Week 4. The only exception to that was the two people who decided to write *all* of the topics, and I’ll admit, I was tempted to put them in a tribe by themselves to watch them fight it out. But instead, I put them on the two tribes with the fewest amount of members, to help balance things out a little. Of course, that was *before* the drops... so it didn’t work out quite as well as I’d hoped. Apparently choosing certain topics in Week 4 made one more likely to drop in Week 5!

We will be losing one from each tribe. So, on top of those who “self-eliminated”, we will be losing four more contestants. That should satisfy some of the more bloodthristy members of your ranks! ;) At least for a moment or two!


The polls will close Thursday, June 20th at 9pm EDT

Good luck to everyone!

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