Green Room - Week 25 - Day 8
May. 16th, 2011 08:16 am![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
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Good morning!
The poll has been extended an extra hour: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/461805.html Why? Because.
Because because because because - because of all the wonderful things it does!
That does not impact the jury though. I still expect you to get your picks in in your alloted time! :)
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Time is getting short. By the end of this poll, we will have 21 contestants remaining in this season. When I thought about that this morning, I got a little lost in thought and almost missed my stop!
It's been a long strange road, and is about to get stranger! :D
The poll has been extended an extra hour: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/461805.html Why? Because.
Because because because because - because of all the wonderful things it does!
That does not impact the jury though. I still expect you to get your picks in in your alloted time! :)
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Time is getting short. By the end of this poll, we will have 21 contestants remaining in this season. When I thought about that this morning, I got a little lost in thought and almost missed my stop!
It's been a long strange road, and is about to get stranger! :D
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Date: 2011-05-16 12:20 pm (UTC)The weather is miserable and I am stuck indoors with five stir crazy children. All I need is more time to read the entries I've already read :oP
ETA: Aaaaaand first! I have lost count for how many of those I've had this season. Guess it makes up for two seasons of none at all!
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Date: 2011-05-16 12:27 pm (UTC)And yay first!
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Date: 2011-05-16 12:29 pm (UTC):throws confetti:
Yeah, it's miserable over here too. It's supposed to be like this all week :p
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Date: 2011-05-16 12:46 pm (UTC)Of course, now that I've said that, I'll wake up tomorrow morning to find it's storming, or something *knocks on wood*
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Date: 2011-05-16 12:23 pm (UTC)Also still can't quite believe there are only 25 people left in the game. Not long to go now!
Also also, I have "Go Your Own Way" stuck in my head, which I don't mind since I love it. YOU CAN GO YOUR OWN WAAAAAAAAAAAAY, GO YOUR OWN WAAAY!!!
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Date: 2011-05-16 03:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-05-16 05:06 pm (UTC)I love that song!
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Date: 2011-05-16 12:25 pm (UTC)We're getting so close to the end of the game now, it's scary! And an extra hour, Gary? You must've had a great weekend or something. Although I suspect there's really an evil reason behind this. Like the fact that if I have to take my son to school tomorrow because he's gotten over his sickness, I won't be home to watch the majority of the last hour of the poll. That scares me. I prefer to watch that last hour and know where things are going!
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Date: 2011-05-16 12:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-05-16 12:42 pm (UTC)Oh, and I chopped off a good portion of my hair! I don't care what SO thinks -- I look cute, dammit.
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Date: 2011-05-16 12:43 pm (UTC)Which is all that matters, dammit!
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Date: 2011-05-16 12:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-16 12:52 pm (UTC)BAD BOYS, BAD BOYS, WHATCHA GONNA DO?
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Date: 2011-05-16 12:49 pm (UTC)Was gonna take some time off from Idol writing, but the topic touched on something I've been wanting to do, so here's my Home Game entry (http://beldar.livejournal.com/737236.html), now that y'all have read and voted on the the regular ones.
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Date: 2011-05-16 12:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-05-16 12:53 pm (UTC)It's going to be rainy rainy rainy here for the next several days. Which means no bike rides for me. Boo. I really have been enjoying getting into biking.
In other news, this whole being advised to not lie on my back thing is getting old already. And I've got several more months of it.
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Date: 2011-05-16 01:02 pm (UTC)I've also, in my boredom this weekend, been learning about corpsing (http://www.metafilter.com/103511/corpsing-giggle-fits) and couldn't stop laughing at this example of it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un__imwE3vg&playnext=1&list=PL5C9056BAB779FF49).
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Date: 2011-05-16 01:10 pm (UTC)Reminds me of all the plays I did in high school and uni where everybody would intentionally hide stuff on the set that would insure that somebody would break character at precisely the correct time ;) It was so evil, but so much fun umless you were the one breaking character!
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Date: 2011-05-16 01:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-16 02:22 pm (UTC)Though I do have a couple entries I need to read still, I was going to do it from my phone at work...but yeah, I probably should actually work today. I'll see if the extra hour lets me finish up and makes time for me to give more comments.
For now though...I'm at work. Ugh for Monday's...
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Date: 2011-05-16 03:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-05-16 02:25 pm (UTC)So. The pimping question. We've already discussed the whys of it, but I'm wondering about the wheres. Where do you pimp (if you choose to)? Do you just do an open post on your LJ? An f-locked one? A filtered one?
What about beyond that though? Do you ask communities for support? Your FB friends? Tweet for votes? Do you ask individuals privately?
Is it OK to take an LJ contest outside of LJ? Why or why not?
My answer is pretty straightforward. If I don't tell my husband to vote for me, he doesn't pay any attention at all. He is the only person that I can do this to - anyone else just gets an f-locked mention of the poll at some point while it's open.
What's your approach to drumming up support? Anything you think is ethically shady?
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Date: 2011-05-16 02:43 pm (UTC)But I don't mention Idol on my other quasi-blog-things, so... Yeah.
With that out in front, though, I don't really have distinctions of what's "ethical" in the game 'cause it's like that LJ-friending essay (http://k4t3.org/publications/hyperfriendship.pdf)
I DO however have quiet distinctions I hold about what's classy and what's not.
Classy is drumming up support for a couple other people while you try to call attention to yourself. It's classy because it's not just asking for votes for yourself but also bringing other people up with you. You talk a little about what someone else has done well on top of what you did well.
Which is awesome.
Alternately, I think all's fair during the intersections because by not pimping your own group, you run the risk of feeling like you dragged someone else down. Which is neither true nor fair to one's self, but it's hard to imagine that you wouldn't feel that way. Which is why I tend to pimp much harder during them.
And I know that I've taken the unclassy option a few times 'cause I just want to stay in the game so much or felt that I could top the entry I begged on if given another week.
It's not classy but I think we can all be forgiven our moments of churlishness.
It's cool, for me anyway, if people want to pimp all over the place. I mean, if it's about using your social networking skills, I think that's pretty fair game.
Otherwise, we might as well just submit it all anonymously and have people vote on entries divorced from names. And what fun would that be?
But I DO go on.
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Date: 2011-05-16 03:44 pm (UTC)So we've got an immunity coming into play, another secondary round this week, AND things are about to get stranger? Insanity.
Also? BLARGH! Mondays!
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Date: 2011-05-16 03:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-05-16 04:59 pm (UTC)I am sleepy as all get out today. I stayed up WAY to late reading The Hunger Games last night. I totally couldn't put it down. The lovely
I still have a few entries to read so I'm glad the deadline got pushed out a bit. But wow are the polls scary. Yikes. And with the next Round 2 set to go off... I is a Nervous Nellie, I tell ya.
Hope everybody had a fantastic weekend!!!
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Date: 2011-05-16 05:32 pm (UTC)But it was a fun as heck weekend, as always! And you're advancing in Rock Band very well! You'll move up from the chimpanzee having a seizure level rather quickly!
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Date: 2011-05-16 05:22 pm (UTC)Yikes.
Although by "ten seconds" I actually mean 24 hours.
Today the updated, edited version of my "Jestam" entry (a short play) is being performed at my Student's Union. I'm very excited by this :D
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Date: 2011-05-16 05:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-05-16 05:52 pm (UTC)It no longer has a back seat. They had to remove it to get to the nonworking seat belts. I can't pass inspection without them.
I'm dreading to think how much this is going to cost.
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Date: 2011-05-16 06:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-05-16 06:13 pm (UTC)I also want to publicly say how awesome the discussions in my entry for last week were and how happy I was to get to have them. Thank you guys, for indulging me so. ♥
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Date: 2011-05-16 06:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-05-16 07:30 pm (UTC)Cats are confusing.
Anyhow, I am obviously hoping for a full recovery still, because I love this cat beyond reason, but I also recognize that he's seventeen. That is a wonderfully long time to get to spend with such a cool kitty. I'd love to make it 18 or 19, or even 20. But only if those could be happy years for him.
*sighs*
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Date: 2011-05-16 07:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-05-16 10:54 pm (UTC)Edit: LOL it's a public holiday today anyway XD
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Date: 2011-05-17 12:28 am (UTC)I'm just trying to stay awake. It's 1.32 and I kind of think I might as well.
But I'm too tired to actually do or say anything useful. I guess I'll just join you in the quest for page 2.
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