Green Room - Week 25 - Day 8

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

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

Comments

[theafaye.livejournal.com]

Why Mr Gary. With this extra hour, you are truly spoiling us...

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!

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

LOL! I finished my reading and voting the day the poll opened so this has just been one long, boring weekend of watching the poll not move at all.

And yay first!

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

You're FIRST!!!!!!

:throws confetti:

Yeah, it's miserable over here too. It's supposed to be like this all week :p

[vaguelyclear.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised by how not miserable the weather is here, considering we're heading into winter.

Of course, now that I've said that, I'll wake up tomorrow morning to find it's storming, or something *knocks on wood*

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

Wooo Hoooo for your first! I'm on the "Anybody but Dom" wagon for firsts. :-p

[vaguelyclear.livejournal.com]

Between the craziness that has been my weekend and my body's apparent hatred for me right now, I completely forgot about the jury!

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!!!

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

Haha now I have it stuck in my head! We just played it on Rock Band last night too!

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

Seriously... down to 25. 21 after tonight. Ack. It's gettin' scary scary scary!!!

I love that song!

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

*drags her feet to try and let theafaye get first*

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!

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

LOL, I don't doubt his inherent evil nature for one second ;) The extra hour is just a ruse.

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

I'm without vehicle for an indeterminate period of time due to a cracked fog light and having to pass a state inspection (which I can't without getting said fog light fixed). Obviously this means I must shelve my emergency grocery shopping until later on unless I wish to schlep down to Former Employer's Main Competitor in the pouring rain :p

Oh, and I chopped off a good portion of my hair! I don't care what SO thinks -- I look cute, dammit.

[vaguelyclear.livejournal.com]

I look cute, dammit.

Which is all that matters, dammit!

[alephz.livejournal.com]

Top 21 in less than 21 hours?

[vaguelyclear.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha, I love it! Especially since I watched that today XD

BAD BOYS, BAD BOYS, WHATCHA GONNA DO?

[beldar.livejournal.com]

Good morning all! Was nice to have a weekend without being preoccupied with the poll. =)

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.

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

There's been a few good home game entries this week! I've been reading the ones I've seen because I ran out of contestant entries to read XD

[cacophonesque.livejournal.com]

But, but, but! I don't need an extra hour, I already did my reading and voting. :p

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.

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

Because my husband is in South Africa right now (Cape Town, to be specific), I am going to be jumping around the green room a lot this week.

vaguelyclear just shared this picture (http://i.imgur.com/pJKoi.jpg) on her journal, and from that picture, I invented the word "manfume." Though she informs me it is already on Urban Dictionary (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=manfume) :( I thought I was being clever!

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).

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

There's a name for that?!? LOLOL!

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!

[adoptedwriter.livejournal.com]

Fun time getting a dental crown this AM. Hope everyone had a nice weekend. Go Reds! AW

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

An extra hour to freak out, huh? Gary, you're so kind :p

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...

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

Ugh for Monday's indeed. *HUGS*

Monday Morning Meta

[theafaye.livejournal.com]

Well, afternoon here. But that doesn't alliterate.

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?

Re: Monday Morning Meta

[alephz.livejournal.com]

I don't know how it rates in the "okay"-ness but I crosspost all my LJ stuff with Dreamwidth so I don't know if that counts as cross-promotion...

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) locknkey mentioned where the ethics of Idol depend pretty heavily on what it is you're looking to get out of the competition.

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.

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

Goddamn, I spend all weekend watching the poll do nothing but for the occasional single voter to come in and now that I should be going to bed, votes are jumping in all over the place? Why does all the interesting poll stuff happen when I'm meant to be sleeping?!

[snarkerdoodle.livejournal.com]

I just got my last few entries read and voted on (I totally vote as I read -- helps make sure that I don't miss the deadline and not get any votes in at all, lol), so there's a bit of jumping coming from me -- sorry for screwing with your sleep! ;)

[nyxocity.livejournal.com]

I still have some entries to read today. I didn't read anything over the weekend. Friday we went out to dinner for our youngest kids' birthday. Saturday my husband and I went to dinner and had fajitas and margaritas and then went to see Thor in IMAX, to celebrate our seven year wedding anniversary. I love it when movie sound makes my chair rumble. And on Sunday we had a nice relaxing day outside in the pool

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!

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

Aww happy anniversary :)

java_fiend and I went and saw Priest this weekend. I need to see Thor too. I'm a sucker for action flicks!

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

Woooo Hoooooooo!!! A Green Room! Oh how I've missed these!

pixie117 and I got out to see Priest over the weekend and loved it. We had a lot of really nice, mellow downtime together and it was so wonderful. And we played lots of Rock Band which is fun. Even though I still look like a chimpanzee having a seizure when I play the drums. But oh how I hate having to leave on Sunday evenings. Booo on that.

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 pixie117 had suggested it to me a while back... but I forgot and just happened to stumble upon it while I was shopping for a book on my Kindle. I really love it so far.

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!!!

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

I hate you leaving on Sunday too. It just makes Monday even more sucktastic and dreadable :p

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!

[serpentpixie.livejournal.com]

Honestly. I turn my back for TEN SECONDS and there's a whole green room and the poll is having a party
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

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

Oh that's awesome about your screenplay!!!! I'm so happy for you!

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

And...I've got my Jeep back.

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.

:head desk:

[nyxocity.livejournal.com]

*confused* Are they going to put the seats back in?

[momebie.livejournal.com]

Internet, I learned this weekend that my blood has a crazy high platelet count. I'm sure this means I have a super power of some sort. Now I just need to figure out what it is.

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. ♥

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

Ooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhh... a super power. Maybe you can fly? turn invisible? Shoot excess platelets out of your eyeballs to smite your enemies???

[joeymichaels.livejournal.com]

So I am at the vet with kittymichaels right now. He is getting fluids because he's been vomiting for the last bunch of days and is dehyrdated. Poor old thing has lost two pounds since December. He is still doing all his regular things, still a delightful little pest, but he just can't seem to hold any food down. Not that he doesn't eat. Indeed, he is as voracious as ever.

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*

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

*hugs* I'm sending good, healing vibes his way. Poor old guy....

java_fiend had a scare with his 17 year old kitty this weekend too. He wasn't eating and he was throwing up. Not a good weekend for black cats I guess. But he came through just fine and I'm keeping Kitty Michaels in my thoughts today. Losing a beloved pet is so painful. Even if you know it'll happen one day, you never want that day to come. I'm hoping he has many happy days left in him <3

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

Wow, over 200 comments and still no page 2! I'm impressed :D I should probably go back to sleep for the next hour... I don't think I'll be taking my boy to school today given how he seemed last night.

Edit: LOL it's a public holiday today anyway XD

[serpentpixie.livejournal.com]

Are you trying to get a page 2?! Spamity spam mcspamspam.

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.