Vote - Week 8

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

A few words from clauderainsrm:

It's Week 8 of Season 8 and there are now 8 trib. . . oh, no there aren't! That would have been cool.

Quick! To the time machine to make this happen!

There are however, half of 8 of the regular tribes, with the former dwindling Tribe 5 being dispersed evenly through the others. So maybe that counts for something.. nah, you're right, probably not!

There are however "Bouncing Immunities" out there - which should make things fun! I'm not sure for whom, but someone is bound to like them! Sort of like throwing a hand grenade into a tea room. If not else - you know the result isn't going to be boring!!

If your name is listed here: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/507589.html - make sure you get in touch with me one hour before the deadline for the poll to close, with your pick on who will receive immunity from you!

In the meantime, we have the poll itself. . .

But first, the usual round of business.

We have several old friends (and one contestant that I had thought would be around a lot longer) need to drop out this week.
They are:
lyfschaos
n_decisive
ravenshrinkery

We were also faced with a few bye-outs. Again, in a field of where around 60 contestants are now hanging without a single bye to their name, seeing a number this small, this late into the "holiday season" is pretty remarkable. Kudos to everyone hanging in there!
Unfortunately, not everyone was able to do that. So we are losing:
____hejira, belenen, handtruck, induil, kf4vkp, ktdid525, swingthevote

Which has a mixture of some very old friends of Idol and newbies. (and of course one newbie who is married to a old friend of Idol! Hopefully, he at least got a taste of what the commotion in his house every week was about!)

Thank you to all of you for coming out this season, and I hope that, when you can, you will make it out to the Home Game.

Speaking of Home Game, we have to determine which of our current contestants are about to become eligible to play it!!

The contestant with the lowest number of votes for their entry, in each tribe, will be eliminated.

The poll will close Wednesday December 21st, at 8pm EST So there is some extra time to get in your reading!

Good luck to everyone!

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Comments

[similiesslip.livejournal.com]

Wow, all those people dropped? I really did NOT expect several of those to be out NOW:(

[sweeny-todd.livejournal.com]

agreed. Very agreed!

[liret.livejournal.com]

District 3! Whoohoo, now I'm a career. And I get bombs. This is gonna be awesome!

[beldar.livejournal.com]

But can you outrun an arrow?

...just askin'

[joyfulfeather.livejournal.com]

Keeping up with two accounts was harder than I thought! Three days for a topic -- especially workdays -- just didn't give me enough time. Sigh!

I had fun writing fiction under induil, though! Thank you to everyone who read and commented. <3

[similiesslip.livejournal.com]

Wow, I didn't know about your "dual personality" Wow:)

Great job writing for 2 though!

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

Man... All those names were like a kick in the stomach. I've enjoyed interacting and reading every single one of them :/

Extra reading time? Yay! I may not get to utilize it anyway, but at least I won't be on a plane when the poll closes like I would be on Monday!

Good luck everyone!

[similiesslip.livejournal.com]

Poll will close on 21st..so our new topic will be posted the 21st? hm...so close to Christmas then!

Enjoy your trip, Pixie:)

[wolfden.livejournal.com]

Sorry to see the bye outs and the drop outs.

[beldarzfixon.livejournal.com]

If the "outs" stick around, the Home Game is gonna kick butt

[similiesslip.livejournal.com]

Agreed!:)

[ecosopher.livejournal.com]

Oh, ravenshrinkery, I'm sorry to see you go. I kind of hope we can see more of you later on in the Home Game. I've been lax commenting but I've really enjoyed your entries.

[copyright1983.livejournal.com]

Sorry to see people go--if I'm looking at this right, that's also three of the immunities gone (and ten left to be distributed).

Good luck to everyone this week!

[cacophonesque.livejournal.com]

I was so close to being on that list of bye outs, so I totally empathize with the folks who fell to it.

Hopefully I'll be able to get some reading done this weekend--having a cranky baby is exhausting.

[honeybeewriter.livejournal.com]

I was close also...but you have a much better reason then I!

[nyxocity.livejournal.com]

My husband, lyfschaos was a newbie this year also. I'm sorry to see him drop, but I think he did get a bit of a better understanding of the whole thing.

As always, sorry to see others dropping this week. To the rest of you, good luck in the polls! I did some reading tonight while sick, though no commenting yet, and am hoping to get to read more!

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

That's true. I was thinking of him as the newbie that I expected to see around a lot longer!

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

Aww, man, even though I've had such limited time to read anything this season, there are still a couple of newbies on that list I recognise and hoped would be around longer so I could read them when I had time. :(

[n-decisive.livejournal.com]

I just want to say thanks to everyone who was supportive and appreciative of my entries. I was somehow managing not to get household chaos to take me down, but I've been sick all week- worse each day- and all I've wanted to do is sleep. It just got to be too much, unfortunately.

I'll be hanging around to cheer folks on, though, and I wish you all good luck!

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear you've not been feeling well, and especially to see you out of the running! *Hugs* and chicken soup to you!

[porn-this-way.livejournal.com]

Awwwshit, I just now noticed like half my tribe skipped out this week. ZEE END EEZ NIGH!

[jem0000000.livejournal.com]

Good luck!

[belenen.livejournal.com]

oops :-( I meant to write one, but ran out of time. My life is too busy for idol right now, I suppose. Well, good luck to all! I think I'll keep watching as long as my favorites are in the running ;-)

[similiesslip.livejournal.com]

And we all are curious, who are your favorites?:) (You don't have to answer.)

Perhaps you will play the home game? I hope so!

[vampedvixen.livejournal.com]

I'm sooooooooo glad we split it into 4 Tribes! My old tribe was getting really, really small. Good luck everyone!

[jem0000000.livejournal.com]

Good luck, everyone!

P.S. EveryWordIEcoWrite? Tribe 1 may have a typo, Gary?

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

LOL! It's the "Eco"nomy size, "Eco" safe LJ!

As long as the link to her entry works, that's what matters!

[kf4vkp.livejournal.com]

Going to miss it, but a busy week of freelancing which is currently feeding me kept me from it. Good luck guys and I'll home game when inspiration strikes

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

Kind of a bummer to make it through the Redemption tribe only to Bye out at the end! Ah well... Que sera sera!

[jem0000000.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the extra time!

Sorry, the date didn't click with me the first time through.

[liret.livejournal.com]

Also, I'm glad the tribes didn't change altogether. I'm still only getting to really read about 1/4 of the entries every week - I was doing it by tribe and had one week's worth when we shifted last time. We need to stay put at least long enough so I know I've gotten to everyone. Maybe even longer, so I can remember who everyone is. And no one can be eliminated during that time, because. . . well, because.

Apparently, what I actually need to do is freeze time. That would make this much easier.

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

So you don't have a spread sheet? I use mine for this, too - mark everyone then unmark those I've read then when there are none marked left, repeat the process.

(I too cannot read everything at once.)

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

Yay for extra reading time!

[theafaye.livejournal.com]

n_decisive was the person who first alerted me to Idol. N_decisive is my longest standing LJ friend, the first LJ friend I ever made who I didn't know in real life. I was really looking forward to competing against her and seeing her beat her standing last time she played.

To say I'm a little bit gutted would be an understatement :o(

[n-decisive.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I'm sorry- hopefully next time? <3

n_decisive

[jacq22.livejournal.com]

LJ friends are important. Shame when you lose a special one.

I have a very laborious method of reading. I go through every one who posts they have an entry. I try to start early, then make very brief notes and comment. Sometimes I have not made it to the end, (surprise) but this time see victory already about 50 to go and have until Wednesday, Yay, and longer due to the time difference.
Good luck to those who have left, hope to see you around?

[ashgaelsonaria.livejournal.com]

In my on going campaign of procrastinating the job of finding a lawyer to assist with my reaplication for disability I have done all me reading, voting and posted my recomendations list here
http://ashgaelsonaria.livejournal.com/196382.html
In the by and by I still have a sick child at home and am still not getting much rest but that the way things go sometimes Heck, if I'm really careful I might avoid getting very sick for a while.
I'm expecting one or both of my other children to catch this nastyness anytime now. As any parent know once one child is sick it is usualy just a mater of time before the rest follow.

[imafarmgirl.livejournal.com]

Oh it is so sad to see the bye outs and the drop outs every week. I guess everyone but one person has to go somehow, but it doesn't make it easier and is better if people last longer.

with the extra time, and the semester being over, I may actually get to read every entry this week.

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the bye. For those of you who don't know - My aunt suffered a stroke on Sunday night and passed away on Tuesday. I live in the UK, my mom and her family are still in the US, so I am updating this from my mom's in the US, having booked a VERY last minute flight back to the US.

So, than you for the Bye, and I look forward to writing when I return.

[lilycobalt.livejournal.com]

I'm very sorry. *hugs* if you want them.