Green Room - Week 36 - Day 8

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

I was wondering if I should mention this during Week 36, or after - but since I know at least one person has already done the math, and I know how well these things tend to keep quiet... all season long, right from the beginning, I have been making references to the infamous Season 4, and the challenge that they faced.

I’ve called them legends. Because they are. They earned that distinction.

I’ve also said that I thought this season’s contestants can stand toe to toe with some of the best, and that this was an epic season.

These are all things that I’ve said many, many times over the course of the season.

I wasn’t saying those things at random. They were clues. :)

There’s another clue tucked away in this event as well, but I’m not going to reveal that one quite yet. No use in giving you too many “spoilers”. :)

With the new set of topics: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/594381.html there will be a new “benchmark of excellence” set.

Season 4 had 16 topics. You have a total of 17.

There were 4 of them. There were 8 of you when you set out on this particular quest.

There have been various numbers quoted over the years for how long they had. Memories vary. But what doesn’t is actually going back and looking for myself. They had the same amount of time as you have had.

Which means... if you want to beat that mark, as a personal challenge - have everything completed the day before the deadline! :) (technically, most of them finished up in the late night/wee hours of the morning on deadline day. But according to the time stamps, it was still technically “the day of”)

If you don’t want to do that there’s absolutely no shame in that. You’ve still completed one more entry!!

Which is amazing.

I full expect to be seeing the cheering sections from the cheap seats!! (or the expense seats, I don’t know where you people are sitting!!)

Not sure how much action will happen in the Work Room, but its there for those who need it:
http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/591795.html and, of course, there is still a lot of fun to be had in the Home Game:http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/592005.html

But, if you really want to show these incredible people some love - you can check out, and comment on, their entries! http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/591554.html and http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/593207.html

Alao, please go check out my "better late than never" recognition of two legends in their own right, the newest members of our 100 Weeks Club! http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/594580.html

Comments

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

Yay first! I think you deserve a cookie!

[ellakite.livejournal.com]

You're *DEAD* to me!

Enjoy that cookie.

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

Boy that's a lot of topics! I've only done one HG entry so far, but I've still been a busy beta reader for all that! Phew!

[alycewilson.livejournal.com]

Another challenge! Something to shoot for, but I won't make any promises at this point. Still, completing my entries this weekend will seem easy after doing them during Otakon last week!

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

Something to shoot

You were speaking of Gary here, weren't you? :-)

[teenagewitch.livejournal.com]

I knew I shouldn't have paid extra cookies for those seats. Seems even the cheap seats get an excellent view. Of course our dear Gary just loves to keep us on our toes.

[porn-this-way.livejournal.com]

YA KNOW... The view from the Idol afterlife ain't so bad after all! *flies through the green room, poltergeist style, screeching wildly and dropping cherry bombs*

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

Go into the light! Go into the light!

::hides train tracks::

[lilycobalt.livejournal.com]

It unscrews the other way.

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

Just don't pee in any sealed boxes. :-p

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

Most of the time, I have to post the night before because of work ;)

I figured you were going to do this. I totally called it. But you know what? Challenge accepted! It would take an act of God to keep me from fighting it out now. I have a few discarded ideas from the last round that I got too late to do anything with... This might be my chance to pull them out.

But no writing tonight. I met my friend, chapstickqueen for dinner. It was a long wait and I just got home at 10 pm. I'm pooped. She made me promise I'll take it easy and go to bed tonight, reminding me I have all night tomorrow to write. Getting rest so I can do just that would be ideal :)

She said she's glad she made plans with me before the topics were posted otherwise she knew I'd turn her down to write ;)

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

She is a wise, wise, wise woman indeed. Rest is a good thing!!! You'll be rested up and ready to rock tomorrow. *HUGS*

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

I'm just going to more or less copy what I said to java_fiend

If I was playing, I'd put myself through this writing too. Because how can you just quit at this point? But as I'm not... heh, yeah, there's a reason I'm not home gaming any of it ;) I did the six during hell week last season, in the home game, but that was a personal challenge to prove to myself I could've kept up if I hadn't been voted out. Since I didn't play this season, it wouldn't have been the same kind of challenge. 17 entries ON TOP of playing for 35 weeks? Yeah, didn't do that.

Just want to put that out there since I do plan on playing next season, and I'd love to get to this point in the game. ;) (Then watch Gary make next season less challenging. HAHAHAHAHA YEAH RIGHT NOT THE LAST SEASON EVER).

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

It's exhausting, but quit now? No way. And I love that I'm pushing myself to do it. It's so nice to look back and say, I wrote 11 entries in a week.

So I'm digging it. It's hard, but I like the challenge.

And for the record, I'm very happy to be still left to have to go through this. I was so jealous of Java last season, and kept telling him to stop whining because I'd love to have made it far enough to be part of Hell Week. Well, now I'm here and it's even more brutal than last season. But I'm here :)

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

Hey Gary, isn't it traditional that you buy us dinner or at least give us a kiss before puttin' it to us this hard? :-p

What a challenge indeed. This is crazy.. but really fun in a sick, twisted way. It's definitely going to be a crazy, nutty fight to the finish, that's for sure.

And I am looking forward to being able to look at the noobs next season and say, "Y'know, back in MY day, we had to write fourteen thousand pieces in a week. You brats have it easy!" :-)

[porn-this-way.livejournal.com]

Hey Gary, isn't it traditional that you buy us dinner or at least give us a kiss before puttin' it to us this hard?

Homeboy ain't got NO manners! He didn't even leave an extra 20 on the nightstand!

[theun4givables.livejournal.com]

I am up ridiculously late because of my son, who woke up all whiney. I'd open up the NetBook and start brainstorming on the new topics, but I know of I do that, I'm never going back to sleep, lol. So I will stare at my phone instead.

I can't believe I'm really going to do the new topics. I just wanna see if I can. I cut it close to the deadline the second time around -- but I like the challenge.

[alien-infinity.livejournal.com]

I can't believe I'm really going to do the new topics. I just wanna see if I can.

You and me both; I am totally going to try and do all of them BECAUSE THEY'RE THERE. ^_^

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

If I were still playing, you'd better believe I'd be digging in there and writing. At the same time, though, I'd be bitching and moaning about work and Not Having Enough Time Because Of My Schedule and related miscellany. My ordinarily dark undereye circles would be blacket than black right about now, and having to explain IRL why I'm not getting any sleep...AAACK!

The biggest danger for me would be falling asleep next to the oven. Or in the freezer :p

AND...I already posted over at the 100 Weeks thread, but I'll reiterate it here: Thank you SO MUCH for reminding me because I knew I was close, but I figured other people (looks at roina_arwen) would beat me, so I never said anything! `100 WEEKS! YAY!!!!!!!!!!

[n3m3sis42.livejournal.com]

I was just looking in the mirror and noticing it looks like I've been punched in the eyes. Hahaha.

[ashgaelsonaria.livejournal.com]

Well, more topics - if we get another cool down I might even get some more ht entries done.
It has been too hot to run my computer.
Also, I haz been annoyed. I finally can afford a subscription to my favorite magazine - which I have been a loyal reader from nearly its beginning (I missed a couple of issues to start) and it is not going to be published any more. They are continuing a related website but no longer publishing Bird Talk one more issue then I start getting Dog Fancy instead :(
I cry fowl on this..

[n3m3sis42.livejournal.com]

If anyone wants brainstorm, my AIM name is n3m3sis42worky and I'm on right now.

[alycewilson.livejournal.com]

I'm trying something a little different this week. I'd like to write an entry based on YOUR suggestions:

http://alycewilson.livejournal.com/478681.html

Everyone is invited to participate, including the rest of the Top 7 and, of course, Gary!

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

So, has anyone figured out the clue yet? I think I might know, if it's about the voting.

If so, I'ma have ta sit next to a sports fan to figure it out again.

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

Yeah. So I was feeling Nostalgic, and decided to take Just One Look at season four, because One Way or Another I might figure out what kind of Pain Gary might have for the Group. Think I figured it out. Can't Hold My Tongue.

http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/168086.html

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

What have been your favorite moments of the Olympics? (so far)

What have been your favorite moments/entries of Hell Week? (so far)

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen a single moment of the Olympics.

I haven't read many entries yet, either, though I'm definitely not going to wait for the polls, given the number there are this week.

whipchick's entry (http://whipchick.livejournal.com/21997.html) about Calcutta really rocked me personally, and I wrote a HG entry about it.

I have a LOT of reading to do. (we all have a LOT of reading to do)

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

OK. So...

I am not usually a person who is overly excited about something I've written, and I'm not a big horn-tooter. But I just wrote a Home Game entry that should be entered into the Internet Users Handbook, and I gotta say, I'm really happy with it.

::basks::

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

It's a good one. I just saw it on my friends list and it drew me right in because of what's been on my mind and what I wrote for Artifice :)

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

Anybody home?

::plops on sofa::

I just read 18 entries, started reading a book, caught up on my f-list and emails, and fed the cats...

Meanwhile it's been dead in here. What gives?

::drops a pin::