Green Room - Week 20 - Day 4

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Good Morning Green Room, how are you?

There. I started with a pleasantry. You are now convinced that I actually care, and will blunder into the fresh snares that I have set around the room!

The new open topic is due today: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/547602.html
There is still some action going on over in the Work Room if you need some last minute advice: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/548016.html

The oral arguments are starting today. What would you like to say in your defense?

Comments

[theafaye.livejournal.com]

Who was that masked woman? Whoever she was, she grabbed first!

[theafaye.livejournal.com]

In my defense, the clocks went forward this weekend, so I haven't adjusted and I had an hour less with my husband before he went off on business for three days.

Trying to get motivated to sort out lunch. Heck, I'm trying to get motivated to do anything right now. And it's a beautiful day out there too - you'd think that at least I could go out and enjoy the sun.

[jem0000000.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

[n3m3sis42.livejournal.com]

Gahhhh. My topic idea seemed great to me, but it is just. Not. Flowing. I can't decide if I should try to invent something else at the last minute or keep pounding away at it. Sigh.

[medleymisty.livejournal.com]

Oh dear - I hope you can make it work.

[mstrobel.livejournal.com]

Just got home from the opening night of Red at the Melbourne Theatre Company. Terrific show! And I finally got to wear the pretty summer dress that I bought in Wales like a year ago.

[theafaye.livejournal.com]

And of course it is gloriously summery here right now :P

[ecosopher.livejournal.com]

Oh, Gary! We know you don't really care!

About to get knocked offline. I'll be back soon.

[cacophonesque.livejournal.com]

Good morning! I've been doing a little reading this week and it makes me a bit sad that I byed out again this season. Not that I would necessarily be writing as good as some of what I've read... but just to be stretching my creativity and reaching an audience, however small.

On the other hand, life's not all bad. I've started learning how to use a repousse pot and discovered that if you try to anneal a penny it very quickly melts into a messy ball of potentially toxic metal. And I've got a very entertaining little girl who runs me ragged and keeps me laughing.

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

Hey now, potentially toxic melted metal sounds kind of fun!!! :-p

[jem0000000.livejournal.com]

Yay for a good home for a tree! :D

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

In my defense, I think I'm falling apart. Ugh. Dizzy from a sinus infection. My ear looks to be infected (I pierced and let them clos up two years ago, is that possible?) and I can hardly hear out of said ear. Oh and I bit my lip really hard and it hurts.,

I feel so guilty, but I'm contemplating a sick day. It's legit and I would see a doctor... I just know work sucks and I have so much stuff to do. Maybe I can access my work email from home at least, that sounds easy enough from the way everyone talks....

I dunno what I'll do. I know my boss won't mind, but ohhh the guilt.

[medleymisty.livejournal.com]

*hugs* It sounds like you should maybe take a sick day. I hope you feel better soon.

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

In my defense, I made a delicious recipe called "Railway Pudding" with a sticky toffee sauce that I received on a postcard from a Postcrossing member. Of course, being a British recipe, their idea of "pudding" is any sort of dessert, so it is actually a cake with a pour-over toffee sauce. It was delicious, doubly so since I had to amend the recipe for American measuring systems - it had grams and ounces, but mostly here we measure by cups and teaspoons or tablespoons.

Fortunately, I did pretty good as guesstimating, because the cake rose properly and tasted good, despite also having to substitute an 8" round pan for a 7" square! Mmmm!

Aptitude - I haz it. =)

[vaudy.livejournal.com]

That sounds really yummy. Hooray for a successful recipe conversion! If it were me, I'd probably just have pulled out my scale and done it by weight.

[medleymisty.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty happy with my entry - I wrote it in the accent and dialect that I grew up hearing. :) Woot southern Appalachia!

And I just got my schedule for work today, and it looks like I actually have a fairly restful day for once! No appointments! :) I had an appointment on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday last week.

That reminds me - I need to ask for a vacation this week.

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

Can you ask for a vacation for me too, please? :-)

Glad you got your entry done. You are a slacker no more. This week anyway. :-p

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

Gary, if you wanted to *really* convince us that you care, you *should* have warned us all about wearing hooded sweatshirts because you know, hoodies are apparently very deadly. It's not bigoted assholes that kill people... hoodies do!!! Ahem.

'twas a pleasant weekend indeed. We took in The Hunger Games... our plan to go to an early show on Sunday worked to perfection. The theater was filled with folks our age and not a squealing teen in sight! Wooo Hoooo! After that, we cruised over to a Chinese restaurant that was nearby that we'd always been curious about... which unfortunately kinda sucked. Boooo on that. But it was a lovely time with a lovely girl anyway. :-)

And now it's back to the grind. Ugh. I'll only be in the office for a couple of hours as I have to run into LA to set up our booth for a local show this week. And then I'll be there all day tomorrow. Ugh. Good thing I was able to convince my officemate to pick up the other two days of the show. I hate local shows. lol... So wooo hooo for that!

[medleymisty.livejournal.com]

What did you think of the movie?

And hey, at least you tried the restaurant and now you know. And setting up the booth gets you out of the office.

[sarcasmoqueen.livejournal.com]

Hello GR! What a change temperature-wise from a week ago! It's a chilly -4 today... nearly 30 degress different from where it was last Monday! BRRR!

I'm having language issues today... it's definitely Monday... :-/

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

-4? Yikes. That's a wee bit chilly!!! The wild weather swings have been freaking crazy this year!

[vaudy.livejournal.com]

I am procrastinating on finishing my entry! What a surprise, right? I'm trying to decide if I should get myself up and out for a walk, or if I should skip it to devote the time to my entry. I start at 2:30 today, so I'm at the five hour mark. It seems like plenty of time now, but it goes so quickly!

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

The time does fly very quickly. Make sure you get your entry in... I don't want to see you bye out!

[teenagewitch.livejournal.com]

In my defense, I planned to clean but my vacumn died so I just did the minimum and went to the Movies. I saw Hunger Games and loved. Date night is a serious plus at my house.
Anyone want snickerdoodle cake? Tastes yummy!!!!

[ecosopher.livejournal.com]

Yay for date night! Bummer about the vacuum, though.

[ecosopher.livejournal.com]

I'm back. I've nearly finished a draft of my entry. I procrastinated for about an hour earlier by writing a piece about language and Stephen Fry. Sigh. I'm really good at procrastinating. But I'll hopefully be up early and revise my entry then. No use in staying up too much later to try and do that - my brain is barely functioning as it is!

In my defence, I have pregnant brain. This means I'm having trouble spelling, or focusing on anything that requires much concentration. However, I *am* nesting. Which is a bonus for my family, because it means a clean house and lots of cooking!

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

My friend used to complain about pregnant brain all the time - I guess that's the one negative to hosting a wee little parasite, eh? They steal all the brainpower for their Evil Schemes To Take Over the World!

[wookiewife.livejournal.com]

In my defense, I spent the weekend in loads of pain (made worse by the pain medication, I might note) resulting in a lack of sleep. But I made it through Hunger Games (enjoyed very much, yes yes) and my nieces got their Christmas presents (only 3 months late) so the weekend wasn't a total waste.

Also, I got a new purse. That always helps the situation, even when you can't stand up or sit down or lie down or anything comfortable at all.

[medleymisty.livejournal.com]

Ouch! I know how horrible pain like that can be. *hugs* I hope it improves soon.

Yay Hunger Games! I liked it a lot too. :)

[kickthehobbit.livejournal.com]

oh Jesus, I know they're probably going to be about my apartment (in my case; my boyfriend's mother may or may not be stopping in today). IN MY DEFENSE:

-last week was finals week
-he worked eighty hours
-I was gone most of the week
-both of us were horribly sick, all weekend, and so did the minimum of cleaning (like, "oh snap, OK, well, dishes are done and the catbox is scooped, it looks like our bookshelf EXPLODED in the living room, but whatevs")

but if she does come over it's going to be this entire thing about how obviously I'm unhappy with how messy the house is, and I am honestly like, "I DO NOT CARE, I AM STILL KIND OF SICK."

Not too sick to go mushroom hunting, though, which is the plan for today. :D

[jem0000000.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

[alien-infinity.livejournal.com]

Like many others in this here Green Room, I went and saw The Hunger Games this weekend. It was awesome! ^_^

Now, I have to go pick up my new glasses from the optical place that put lenses in them. I got vintage frames, but the vintage frames store didn't do lenses or prescriptions, so I had to go somewhere else for that. I need to stop procrastinating and go retrieve my completed spectacles!

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

Who needs spectacles??? Clear vision is highly overrated. :-p

[vaudy.livejournal.com]

I think I have my entry mostly-done (still working out how to end it), if anyone has time for a quick beta-read. :)

[lrig-rorrim.livejournal.com]

I feel like I'm going to be the last person in the GR to see the Hunger Games! I'm going to an early showing this afternoon, so then I'll be one of the cool kids. This morning I was up early for poll worker training for the spring election next week. Wheeeee democracy!

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

You haven't seen it yet? What a slacker. :-p

Poll worker training? Nice. That's awesome. And so much better than pole worker training too! :-p

[notodette.livejournal.com]

This morning I woke up to an email telling me a manuscript I submitted was accepted by a publishing house.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy day! Brownies for breakfast for EVERYONE.

[medleymisty.livejournal.com]

OMG wow! Congratulations!!!! That's awesome!

[ellakite.livejournal.com]

I will be using the "Simpson Defense" (created by Bart, used successfully once by OJ):

It wasn't me, man!
I wasn't there!
Nobody saw me!
You can't prove anything!

Besides that, I'm taking a fifth. Fellow LJIers are welcome to bring their own.

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

A fifth of what? :)

[lostin-thestars.livejournal.com]

Ok, I'm happy to be settled down now and no longer planning a wedding, or a honeymoon.

Time to catch up on the real world.

[knomers.livejournal.com]

IT's SNOWING!!!!!...sorry for the outburst you can return to your normal schedule.

Snow in UT to lovely sunny weather of Mesa,AZ today...

Anything good in Mesa??? ***crickets**

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

Anything good in Mesa???

The road that leads you *out* of Mesa??? :-p

[beldar.livejournal.com]

Heh-heh, you said "oral"