Green Room - Week 32 - 2

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

*yawn*

So, how was YOUR night? Anything interesting going on? :P

I have some general commentary for later, got a meeting with a guy about a thing, if people have more questions for me. I'm still waiting for one of the people involved though. Thus far I haven't seen anything impacts the game itself, and after a night of pouring through votes, um that's "fun" btw - although obviously some personal relationships are going to require some conversations.

If you don't know what I'm talking about - hey, look! Free kittens!!!!


If you have a couple spare good thoughts - send them over supremegoddess1 today. She'll either appreciate them, or bite the heads off them like bat!!! Either way it will be a nice thing to do! :p

The topic post is: http://community.livejournal.com/therealljidol/359930.html
This post is right here in front of you

Comments

[marjory.livejournal.com]

Free kittens is a bad, bad thing! You never know who is going to take them home and eat them.

I'm just waiting for more goodbyes, more writing and less drawma.

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Writing goodbyes were on my plate for last night. Apparently people hate goodbyes. :p

[shadowwolf13]

Seconded on the goodbyes, writing, and drawma.

As fr the kittens .... I'm really not a cat person so somebody else can have them.

[sra33.livejournal.com]

*hugs* to supremegoddess1. :) Hope everything went well!!!

OO! KITTENS!!! :D

But I can't take any home... my dog will chew on them. :(

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

Kittens are so adorable - as is that icon!

[supremegoddess1.livejournal.com]

still breathing ::)

[beautyofgrey.livejournal.com]

I hope supremegoddess1 is doing well.

In regards to the drama, I just have to say - why'd it have to come out on a two-entry week? I can't eat popcorn and write two entries and get a decent amount of sleep (especially since I'm going out of town Friday night, crap!)

Clearly it is a huge conspiracy designed to bring me down.

[cacophonesque.livejournal.com]

Since I don't have to write, I'll eat your share of popcorn, too.

(Is it sad that I really do wish there was popcorn involved here so I could eat some... time to check the cupboard. Curses, internet! Curses!)

[fourzoas.livejournal.com]

My night was great because I slept for more than 4 hours--double that, even! I have no idea what you're on about in the squishy middle there. I know and don't really want to know about the squishy middle, so I'll just head back to my bunker and work on my entries. I'm allergic to kittens (and cats, for that matter, which is why our guys now have their own porch), so I'll have to pass on those.

[impoetry.livejournal.com]

Thanks for making things exciting! That was awesome of you!

[mstrobel.livejournal.com]

No fair, I really want a kitten!

I just realized that I have two days in which to write two entries. Why did this not hit me when I still had -three- days to write two entries?!

Beaming good vibes towards supremegoddess1 :)

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

Procrastination is love! Some people just work really well under pressure. =)

[mstrobel.livejournal.com]

Also, is LJ doing that thing where it doesn't email comments for everyone, or am I just a special little flower who got lucky?

[beautyofgrey.livejournal.com]

Nope, it's been driving me crazy for months with sending me selective comments, and lately it's just crapped out and not sent me any at all.

[onda-bianca.livejournal.com]

Golly, since being out of the game I truly feel as though I have absolutely *no* clue what is going on. At all. Every time I pop back in it's like I'm in Oz or something!

Someone clue me in? Or maybe being left in the dark is best:)

[talon.livejournal.com]

ignorance may be bliss, but the truth will set you free?

I hate being in the dark. Thus, check out wiseosiris and theafaye's (must be friend) latests.

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

Good luck, supremegoddess1! I am super excited for you!

[supremegoddess1.livejournal.com]

thanks!

[thenodrin.livejournal.com]

I spent last night playing a new computer game.

I'm a huge fan of the Mayfair Games Empire Builder series. At Origins Game Faire last weekend, I found a flier advertizing a computer version of the board game.

I tried to take the flier, but there was only one and it was in somebody's hand. He let me jot down the website, though.

I downloaded the free trial and so far I love it.

Theno

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

Oooooh.

[cacophonesque.livejournal.com]

Meta of the day:

I'm like a head trip to listen to, cause I'm only givin you
things you joke about with your friends inside your living room
The only difference is I got the balls to say it
in front of y'all and I don't gotta be false or sugarcoated at all
...
'Cause I'm Slim Shady, yes I'm the real Shady
All you other Slim Shadys are just imitating
So won't the real Slim Shady please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up?


[because I promised zia_narratora and intrepia that I would.]

Also, good luck supremegoddess1! Eeee!

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

I am Spartacus?

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

Good thoughts headed her way today!

I have two interviews today. One isn't very exciting, just a part-time position that could hep me pay the bills in the meantime if the "real" job doesn't pan out.

The second is very exciting though and could land me an awesome job in my field. It's the third interview in the process,so a good sign, right? So keep your fingers crossed for me. I could be moving to Newport Beach within weeks if it works out!

I am curious about this personal relationship that requires conversations....eeep. It makes me wonder if it somehow involves me (yes, I am paranoid).

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

Good luck! I am really excited to hear about your new job because your work sounds so cool.

[rattsu.livejournal.com]

Got a job I believe!

Starts in the middle of august.

Now I have to try to focus on entries and get them done fast!

[fourzoas.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

[rattsu.livejournal.com]

Right now, I am sitting at my computer with a fresh donut, watching a huge flock of birds playing in my bird bath. We have a heatwave here, and water is scarce, so they are all coming to my backyard to rest in the shades of the bushes and play in the water.

I threw out an old banana earlier, and by now they have finished eating half of it. Most of the flock are hatchings just out of their downy baby coats. They don't have their proper colors yet, and seems to want to be back in their nest. I watched their father eat the banana, two hatchings sitting next to him eating as well. Now and then they would abandon the tough part of eating on their own, and would chirp and beg until their dad started feeding them like in the old days. They would eat, beg, and then eat some more.

The scene was totally adorable, and I thought I would share it while I was putting off writing my entry.

Sometimes life is good.

[lady-hoshi.livejournal.com]

I was very wrapped up in my own life so I missed out on everything.

The only drama in my life is figuring out how I feel about 'The Last Airbender' movie. Went to to the midnight premier cause I love the show so much. My only advice is if you haven't seen the show before, don't before going to see the movie. and if you are a fan of the show, watch the nicktoon special, the making of The Last Airbender.

[joeymichaels.livejournal.com]

Kitty Michaels reports that, while he wouldn't actually share any chicken with supremegoddess1, he would let her sniff it before he scarfed it down. That is surely a measure of respect.

[supremegoddess1.livejournal.com]

indeed it is!

[worldofcharlie.livejournal.com]

Is getting frustrated with live journal... Notifications or nothing...

As for drama - I've been out of the loop about things for a while now.

A good friend of ours - her place burned down and is currently couch hopping. It really put things into perspective doesn't it?

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

Yes, it really does put things in perspective. I am so sorry to hear about your friend :(

That's what I tried to say before. All this drama isn't the worst thing going on in the world. It's not the end of the world after all.

[alycewilson.livejournal.com]

I am not kidding when I say that reading the posts about the latest voting drama gave me the sort of visual disturbance associated with a migraine. The right side of my vision is currently swimming with wavy white lights. Fortunately, I have not actually had a migraine that developed into a splitting headache since becoming pregnant with my Kung Fu Panda, so it's all good.

Reading this sort of stuff is a lot easier whilst holding a 3-week-old baby who makes little baby panda noises. (Kung Fu Panda is aptly nicknamed.)

Addressing two very different sets of people

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Taste

- People don't always like their competition and if someone gets further ahead than they do, they don't like it. Who wants to think that other people *actually* like someone's work, when they (clearly more qualified and refined of readers) don't see anything in it?

What might not get processed though, is that there are people sitting around, saying the same exact thing about them!!

Every time there is someone who gets something - there is someone sitting, thinking "I deserved that a lot more".

Ultimately though, it's going to come down to taste. Because the people voting for the people you don't like - are just like the people who are voting for the one's that you do.
They are just as qualified with just as such knowledge about *what they like* as people who support folks you do like have.

Quality

I've said it before - anyone who thinks that any one of these Top 11 *shouldn't* have an equal chance to win, based on the quality of their entries - I think you are sniffing something.

A friend of mine was rereading some stuff from previous seasons last summer and realized that things she might not have liked when she read them in the competition - she found herself enjoying them, and seeing what other people liked, when there wasn't a vote involved.

Both of those above come with the subtitle "Subjectivity is Your Friend. Everyone Else Hates You"

There is Another Person on the Other End of the Internet

This is one that often gets ignored. Because no one is right in front of you. They might as well be not there.

But they are. Especially when you reach out to, and get to know, people - that comes with an obligation.

What is that obligation? It varies from person to person and relationship to relationship.

But it's not something that can be rationalized away - and once broken, it's not always easy - or possible - to fix.

Of course there's a difference between broken and "mostly broken" that might not always be apparent in the heat of the moment. Saying, or doing, things that will make it worse - well, um, that will just make it worse.

In those cases, maybe just stepping away from each other for a bit and approaching it later, with an apology and a cookie. (Even if you didn't "do anything wrong" in actions, if it hurt someone, then acknowledge that, it's what friends do - the cookie btw is for me!!!)

Remembering that there is another person on the other side of these twisted tubes filled with magic will probably go a long way toward not having to do any of the other stuff.

This isn't just as a "taking actions", this is also "reaction".

Nothing has been ruined, nothing is a lie. Except the cake

Taking the breath, and being able to access a situation before "OMGZ DRAMA!!!! Now everything that ever has been is ruined" - it's a good thing. More people need to practice it.

"Someone did something that I did not like" does not mean that "Grandma's birthday is a disaster!!!!" if you had a really good time up until then, and have a really good time after that.

Re: Addressing two very different sets of people

[alycewilson.livejournal.com]

Cookies and baby hugs. They heal all.

[alycewilson.livejournal.com]

Luke here. FREE kittens, you say? How good are they at fighting ninjas? If they come pre-trained, I'll take four to serve as my bodyguards. There's a lot more work in the Wilson household, now that I've got a baby panda to protect.

[joeymichaels.livejournal.com]

Oh Hai Homegame for "Windage" (http://joeymichaels.livejournal.com/574747.html)

There may well be a "Do-Over" homegame surprise for all y'all. Or there might not be. IT'S A MYSTERY!

[alycewilson.livejournal.com]

But are there KITTENS?