Green Room - Week 11 - Weekend Edition Part 2

[clauderainsrm]

 With how the weeks ended up being spaced out, this is the second Weekend Edition of Week 11! 

It's also the last day of the poll for the main competition - so make sure that your voice is being heard! 

Anything out there that you think needs to be getting more recognition in the votes department? https://therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1030811.html

With only 3 members of the Jury seated for this vote, this week is going to be interesting to see who receives immunity. I will tell you this, it is coming down to the final Juror to make this decision... unless of course it gets thrown into a tie in which case then it gets thrown into a tie-breaker.... which is pretty rare. 
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Second Chance ie already moving forward with their final topic: https://therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1031859.html after another brutal round of eliminations: https://therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1031601.html

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Tomorrow is going to be the first official day without my least favorite co-worker. I can't recall if I posted this or not - but a couple weeks ago she put in her notice, and then insisted that she be allowed to take her PTO for almost all of those two weeks. It's not "allowed" but she complained loud and long enough at HR that they ended up just letting her do it.  I'm guessing they wanted her to go away as much as I did. :) 

Which means the last week or so have been great, especially since my second least favorite is on a cruise.  I think she comes back this week though, I'm hoping things will be better once she does, because I liked her before she became so close with the "bad one", so maybe without that influence she will go back to being nice again. 


Which isn't what I was going to talk about today. It was about work, but not about that. Just before Christmas break, the newest co-worker invited us all out to lunch, her treat.  Only two of us took her up on it. 

It was nice - until I was confronted with something I didn't see coming. I should have.  I'm being purposefully vague, but let's chalk it up that I have food related trauma in my past and leave it at that - to the point that there are things that I actively avoid, but I've gotten better over the years. To the point that I can be at the same table as it.  I just position myself so that I'm not looking at it, or smell it.  Because everyone has their own triggers and that's one of mine.  Probably the biggest. 

It ended up right in front of me (directly across) with the person asking if I wanted to share... I tried my best to cover, but I wasn't doing a great jnb of it and my co-workers ended up being concerned asking if I was OK. I said that I was and that I'd tell them later... but it pretty much ruined lunch. 

I did end up sharing the bare minimum of the story.  Food related issues involving my step-father and that item. One of them chimed in with "Oh, it's PTSD. That makes sense now" and we actually ended up sharing a tiny bit of our own stories with each other. 

I'm only bringing this up because since then, the new co-worker and I have actually started talking quite a bit. Not about that day, but in general - about real life, and she's mentioned things she didn't bring up that afternoon. 

So what was a really embarrassing moment for me at the time has actually opened up a new friendship.  

This is my vague and roundabout way of saying don't be afraid to be vulnerable.  In your life, or in your work.  There are people around you who can relate, even if you don't always see it right away. 

Results - Week 11

[clauderainsrm]

 Does 1 vote matter?  Yes, it does. 

Because this weeks results came down to a single vote. Not only in the polls, but also with the Jury's vote for who would receive immunity. 

If you are looking at the poll right now, you are probably wondering what I'm talking about.  But I'll explain.  The Jury vote for immunity was forced to the tie-breaker of "need based".  Meaning "who actually needs it?" If more than one person was tied for immunity, or if granting immunity to the person in need would eliminate someone *else* in need... then we would go to the next round of tie-breaker.  Or if there was a massive knot of contestants with the same amount of votes, which almost happened...

The Jury was deadlocked, so the "need based" tie went in favor of granting it to codenamewanderlust 

So they are safe from the vote. 

Which means the next two lowest vote-getters are the two leaving us, and becoming a part of the Jury. (Who, as I said, will be having a huge part in deciding how this mini season is going to play out. If this doesn't prove that, nothing will.)

Our newest Jury members are:
favoritebean_writes 
tonithegreat 

Thank you so much for coming out for this mini season. 

I hope we will continue to see you in the Home Game, and cheering on your favorites. 

Topic - Week 12

[clauderainsrm]

There are times when I'm sitting back in delight, wondering what the reaction is going to be to a new topic. 

There are other times when I'm more concerned about how a pre-planned topic is going to go over with the group. 

This time?  This time I'm intrigued.  But my intrigue isn't the point of this thread. 

The point is telling you that your topic is 

MacGuffin 


This should be interesting. 

The deadline to link your entries back to this thread is Wednesday Jan 16th at 8pm EST. 

Have fun!