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:(

[liret.livejournal.com]

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

[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

[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!

[wolfden.livejournal.com]

Sorry to see the bye outs and the drop outs.

[similiesslip.livejournal.com]

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

Great job writing for 2 though!

[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:)

[beldarzfixon.livejournal.com]

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

[myrna-bird.livejournal.com]

That was you? Wow, I really admire people who can write as more than one person. I can understand how tough it must be just keeping your brain straight on who you are when attempting different styles and stuff. Good work.

Sorry to see all these other names leaving too. Hope for some home game entries. I've been reading the ones so far and they are still really good and I think they deserve a shot at getting back into the fray!

[beldar.livejournal.com]

But can you outrun an arrow?

...just askin'

[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.

[lilycobalt.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed the Raven stories! Do you think you might continue to mix them in under your main journal?

[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!

[muchtooarrogant.livejournal.com]

You did a great job writing for two. :) Sorry to see your alternate personality go, but at least you're still in the game.

Dan

[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.

[joyfulfeather.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :)

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

There's almost always a few handul of "twofers" out there - I honestly can't imagine trying to do this under two accounts! Respect, yo! ♥

[joyfulfeather.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It was mostly the time commitment that was the issue -- I was writing fiction for induil and nonfic for my main journal, so they were easy to separate. Finding the time for them, that was a different story...

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

Sometimes around the holidays we get a "Free Topic" (optional to write on - I can't remember if there's a poll for Special Powers, or no poll at all) or we might just get a little extra time for the topic...

Too little sleep; too few brain cells! :)

[joyfulfeather.livejournal.com]

Thank you! <3 I haven't decided yet if I'll write any fiction under this journal -- while I had the two, I was writing fiction for induil and nonfic for this journal. But Raven was "born" in this journal last season, so... We'll see!

I'm definitely going to continue writing stuff with her, though -- I've got a novel in progress, though I seem to have stalled on it. Maybe not writing her for Idol will help kick me into writing her elsewhere again!

[joyfulfeather.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[joyfulfeather.livejournal.com]

Hee, thanks! I haven't heard much talk about alts this season, but I'm sure mine wasn't the only one!

[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!

[nyxocity.livejournal.com]

I don't know if he does it every year, but we got the week of Christmas and and leading up to New Year's off last year with an optional Free Topic if we wanted to participate.