Prompt - Week 11

[clauderainsrm]

Based on how the votes have been going every week, I'd say the time for talking nonsense is passed us in this competition. 

Except of course that's kind of the point of this week. 

The prompt? The Scottish slang 

HAVER 


The deadline to link your entry back to this post is Friday, October 4th at 7pm ET.  Which is longer than usual because I want to give the write off people a couple days for the turn around for the new entry. So those of you who are NOT in it, are benefiting as well! Just don't lose sight of this deadline, because as we saw last week, there is no more safety net!

Have fun!

Green Room - Week 11 - Extended Weekend Edition

[clauderainsrm]

 This is the last Idol post I will be making as a 52 year old. 

The results/Sudden Death Write Off thread was posted last night: https://therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1165241.html

and the new Prompt was posted this morning  https://therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1165556.html

I'm starting to think that we should stop the regular polls and just have a rotating Sudden Death Write Off between randomly selected people!  :D 
Might save some time!!!  ;) 

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What are you doing to celebrate my birthday this weekend???   I wasn't planning on being off today but thanks to the hurricane my office is closed!  So no real damage (other than a little bit of clean up and putting everything back where it goes) but a free day to relax!  I wish everyone could be as lucky. (since there ARE people without power/significant damage) and those who are still in the path of the storm. 

Our Friend Rejeneration

[clauderainsrm]

 That Green Room was supposed to be the last entry I wrote as a 52 year old. But I just saw something a few minutes ago and I need to process it. The only way I can do that is here. With you... which means I'm not going to make much sense, but I hope somewhere in there you can understand what I mean...

I just saw that one of the "early adopters" of LJ Idol passed away on September 13th. Her sister posted from her Facebook account today, but I saw that she's been tagging her in things over the last few days. I must not have seen them.

Saying that Rejeneration/ jenwithapen  is "legendary" or "one of the first names I wrote down for the All Stars season" would not even begin to do justice.  "Incredible" writer is what people knew, what what most didn't is that she was always working professionally - including on some projects at Netflix. 

I talked to her a couple times on the phone and she was just so warm and supportive - always looking for ways to help Idol, and me.  During the DW transition she even stepped up and became my assistant for awhile, so you should definitely recognize her name from the Green Rooms. 

She was the one who bought Idol a permanent account over on Livejournal. That was a big part of why I kept it going for as long as I have... because of that level of support, and belief in what we were doing here.  She was the one that I was working with to get Idol its own domain/site set up so that we wouldn't be held to DW/LJ.., it never got off the ground but she had been pressing for it for YEARS... 

Fantastic friend. Above and beyond supporter. Absolutely amazing writer. She was all of these things, and those just touch the surface.  

I'm sure I'll have more to say later, once I reflect, but for right now...

I just went through my emails and the last line that I will ever hear from her Is "Lemme know if you wanna talk! I'm always here doll!"