Green Room - Week 24 - Day 2

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

It's a new chance for some of you: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/456566.html

and a new week, with a new topic: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/456760.html

It's also a brand new month, full of unholy Idol possibilities, in this existence, now with less Bin Laden!

So, how was your weekend? What's new?

Comments

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[theafaye.livejournal.com]

Yay!!!

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

Damn it and I even gave theafaye warning this time!

[dreamchaser.livejournal.com]

Yay!!!!!

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

WooHoo!

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

Woooo Hooooooo!

[snarkerdoodle.livejournal.com]

Rock on! :D

[theafaye.livejournal.com]

We had a lovely may day yesterday. I was going to go to another fayre today for the bank holiday but then I realised that I haven't really stopped or slowed down for a week, which included being sick, and since we have abusy week lined up ahead of us, then perhaps taking it easy would be a good thing to do today.

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

THIS :nodding: You've been running on all cylinders for awhile now...you need to take it easy every so often. Take it from somebody who should practice what she preaches, though :D

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

Easing up for a day and taking care of *you* is definitely a good thing to do today. You rest up and feel better.

[lawchicky.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaahhhh.. I saw this three minutes after posting and still wasn't first!

Ok, now that I got that put of my system, I'm determined to make this Monday a good one! I'm taking ownership of some new office space tonight, and finally finishing some big work projects. Fingers crossed that the day goes smoothly for me and all of you!

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

I just happened to be working on my entry when I saw the post go up ;)

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

My weekend was relaxing - pretty much just laundry, playing around on FB, watching TV, and chillaxing.

Couldn't have Bin any better.

*Yawn*

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

Puntastic!

Monday Discussion Question

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

You don't have to answer this if you want, but I'm genuinely curious, and I'll explain in a minute: Do you find yourself subconsciously following a theme in your entries?

I'm asking because it just dawned on me, in reading back through my entries thus far this season, that many times I've got "kids' perceptions" either as the main, or as a sliver of a theme. I'm not consciously writing that way. It just struck me as curious...have you noticed that in your writing?

Re: Monday Discussion Question

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

I think my entries tend to be relatively people focused. Not plot driven or whatever. Whether it's about me, my relationships with other people, or even just the characters I'm writing about if it's fiction.

[sra33.livejournal.com]

My day was a whole slew of ups and downs and ended with me staying up WAY too late to hear the news coverage on Bin Laden. I've stopped calling him Osama, I keep getting words mixed up by accident. XD

And it would be naive if I thought his tyranny is over, because there's more than enough people willing to step up to the plate, and especially be particularly angry and willing to do some extreme things to retaliate. I'm terrified my bf is going to be deployed into a very intense and hostile environment, but he's a good man with a good head on his shoulders so he would help out tremendously.

Anyway.. I'm wrapped up with a GM on WoW to get a couple pet quests straightened out, then I need to run to school. In fact, I'm late to school by 15 minutes and we haven't gotten everything figured out yet. Heh... woooorth it. Pets > School imo.

~Sammy-Joe

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

The people that are celebrating and not thinking of the backlash aren't being really smart here. He's one man, he will be replaced easily... And I bet they step up their efforts. This does not end the War on Terror, it's mostly symbolism. I'm really thankful for our troops and wish they could all be home, safe and sound.

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

My round two entry is in. I've also already started working on an actual topic entry in case I go through. Who knows, maybe Gary will up and decide we're actually all eliminated after all? :P

My weekend was pretty quiet. Last night I woke up around 3am because I had a dream where my mum was still alive. Tomorrow is the anniversary of her death so I will possibly be emotionally out of action. Though I could channel it into the entry I'm writing "just in case;" we'll see.

My husband is in Hong Kong this week, too.

Oh, and I posted meta, in case anyone's curious.

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I posted meta,

Brave, brave, brave woman... :-p

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

I'm intentionally not talking about the big topic of the day. FB has already done a perfectly good job of making me hate people right now. Fighting over who gets credit, conspiracy theories galore, etc. So that's it. I've left a few select comments here and there on some ignorant people's posts, but that's likely to just fuel more ignorance. So I'm done.

My weekend was great though :) I spent it with java_fiend and we had Rockin' Crepes on Friday and that was yummy and cool! We played Rock Band on Saturday (and had sushi). I've made an addict out of Mr. Java, we played late into the night. On Sunday, he took me to a local museum and that was cool. I especially loved the exhibit on the South Pacific Headhunters. He got to see my morbidity first hand as I took photos of things such as necklaces made from human teeth and fingers and even a cannibal fork...yeah, I'm a little morbid, but the king of creepy fiction can appreciate that at least :p

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

I'm not going anywhere near FB for that very reason.

I did cringe while I was at the 7-11 earlier, though. One of the cashiers is a young Muslim woman, and as much as I'd like to think most of the clientele is respectful of that, an older man she was waiting on made a smartass remark about bin Laden. She didn't say anything to him. He left, she saw me giving him The Look, and said, to me, "You know, most Muslims think he was deranged. His views only represent a very small percentage."

And I replied, "I know. Why don't people realize that?"

[ecosopher.livejournal.com]

I still haven't got my entry in, but since I just fell asleep at the laptop several times in the last 10 minutes, it's time to feed and change the baby, then I'm heading to bed. I'll be up early enough to finish my piece... I hope.

[theafaye.livejournal.com]

I hope too! I really worried about missing deadline this time and although I'm not 100% happy with my entry, it would suck to drop out at this stage.

[momebie.livejournal.com]

It's Monday morning and I've already had to do math. THERE IS A REASON I WORK IN PUBLISHING, YOU GUYS. Ugh, numbers make me feel so agitated and frustrated.

This chocolate cake for breakfast is totally warranted.

[nyxocity.livejournal.com]

Math that early on a Monday is cruel and unusual punishment!

Hey, it's got eggs! And milk! And wheat! That's nutrition! :)

[serpentpixie.livejournal.com]

Does anyone want to write my essays for me??!
Deadlines...
Bah!

[nyxocity.livejournal.com]

Gooooooood morning, Green Room! :)

My Monday is not so bad. I didn't forget any meetings! I'm already starving though. I'm craving Chicken & Cheese from The Perfect Pita. Yum.

I have an idea for an entry that I think could be pretty cool, but I need to decide exactly how to implement it.

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

Good Morning, Chica!!!!

A chicken and cheese pita sounds really yummy. :-)

I wish I had an idea! I'm jealous of you!

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

I didn't see the men walking on the moon with my own two eyes so I don't know that the moon landing ever *really* happened.

I have never seen a real life dinosaur with my own two eyes so I don't know that they ever *really* existed.

I wasn't there and never saw a real life battle in the Civil War so I'm not sure that ever *really* happened either.

People are seriously making me uber-stabby today. And here I am, stuck in an office full of rabid, knuckle-dragging fools that will believe whatever Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck tell them to believe. The day just started and I'm already ready to beat my own head... or somebody else's head against the wall. Oy! Calgon, take me away!!!

So yeah.... ahem... I'm going to go sit in the corner, drink my coffee and try to come up with the most morbid and horrible story I can think of for this week's prompt... the ick some people are making me feel needs to be purged somehow, right???

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

I really feel for you, honey...I do... *hugs* but just think, we are going away next weekend :)

Morbid and icky?!? Ohhh I like that a lot. I'm still stuck on cannibalistic headhunters, I wish I could write an entry about that :P

I'm done.

[ellakite.livejournal.com]

Other than that, nothing's really new for me. Just the same old bad dreams and my chronic inability to appreciate anything good in my life.

See you next season.

Re: I'm done.

[serpentpixie.livejournal.com]

:(
Would you like some fresh blueberries?

[joyfulfeather.livejournal.com]

Yay for a new month! Hard to believe it's May, though. Where has spring gone?

I'm nervous about writing an entry this week. I loved last week's entry and it went over really well; I feel doomed to bomb this week!

Also, is anyone else feeling slightly thrown by the return to individual entries? I really liked brainstorming a bit with teammates the last few weeks.

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

I'm nervous about writing an entry this week. I loved last week's entry and it went over really well; I feel doomed to bomb this week.

This is how I feel about myself too...

[joeymichaels.livejournal.com]

I posted this to Metafilter (http://www.metafilter.com/103068/Bin-Laden#3668586) last night, but I wanted to share it with all y'all, too.

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It wasn't quite the start of the school day out here in Hawaii when the attacks on the World Trade Center happened. I was asleep and was woken just after dawn by the phone ringing. It was my friend, Liz.

"They blew up the World Trade Center," she said.

I was half asleep and said something like, "Oh, I'll turn on the TV."

I'm a teacher and they didn't cancel school that day, so about an hour later, I was on my way to work - earlier than I had to be there. We had an assembly for the faculty - unheard of previously - to discuss how we'd address this with our students.

It was decided we'd leave it up to each teacher, but if the students wanted to talk about it, we should let them. If they had questions for us, we should answer them. If they wanted to talk one on one, we should do that, too.

In my first class, the main question was "are we going to war?" Lots of our kids were children of military. In the coming years, several of their parents would die in the Middle East.

One girl, Laura, wanted to talk one on one. She didn't understand how this could happen. She was a freshman and had just read The Diary of Anne Frank. She quoted the famous "people are basically good" section and pondered that maybe Anne Frank was wrong, then she cried and cried and cried on my shoulder.

I was 33 and remember feeling that that was a really late age to think "wow, I'm really an adult now, aren't I?"

On Facebook, Laura (who is now 24) posted a message celebrating the death of Osama Bin Laden - the sort of message you'd reserve for an event that suggested balance was returned to the world. I'm more cynical than she is by far, but symbolic things can be important. Since she was a teenager, this boogie man has hung over her head for the entirety of her adult life.

I don't know if she'll ever think people might be basically good at heart again. Maybe she's come to understand that the true meanings of Anne Frank's phrase has to do with humanity as a whole, not with the occasional evil individuals that weave in and out of history. But tonight, at least, it sounds like a shadow has been lifted from her.

Will this result in any lasting change in our world? As I said, I'm cynical and I doubt it. I don't know that good can come from violent death, no matter how much a person deserved it. No matter how much a person might have been merely a symbol of a much larger problem and not actually the problem himself.

But I hope that Laura - and a million other kids forced (perhaps prematurely) into a kind of constant fear - might be able to sleep a little easier tonight for the destruction of that symbol.

And then there are the millions of kids who live with the shadow of other boogie men in their dreams - boogie men that may well include us.