Pre-show Green Room 2: Countdown...
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therealljidolThere will be something MAJOR announced on this coming Monday so make sure to set your sun dials!
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As of my last count, we had 73 people signed up for this season - 1 more than was here last season. We've officially set a new record, and there are still a bunch more folks who have stated an interest. It's going to be interesting to see where this ends up number wise and what sort of impact that has on the game. On top of the journal writing aspect, this is a VERY social based game (you know, being based in a social networking community!) so that sort of bunching of folk is going to be fascinating - especially as the numbers start to dwindle.
So who brought the food this morning? I'm starving...
Oh yeah, I guess I did... I picked up a little something on my way in to work. Dig in - and have a great day!
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As of my last count, we had 73 people signed up for this season - 1 more than was here last season. We've officially set a new record, and there are still a bunch more folks who have stated an interest. It's going to be interesting to see where this ends up number wise and what sort of impact that has on the game. On top of the journal writing aspect, this is a VERY social based game (you know, being based in a social networking community!) so that sort of bunching of folk is going to be fascinating - especially as the numbers start to dwindle.
So who brought the food this morning? I'm starving...
Oh yeah, I guess I did... I picked up a little something on my way in to work. Dig in - and have a great day!
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Date: 2007-10-24 04:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-24 07:09 pm (UTC)My friends list knows more about me than my co-workers do.
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Date: 2007-10-24 08:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-24 09:17 pm (UTC)I try not to be very social at work. Most of the conversations are about huntin' and fishin'.
I just read my book and keep them wondering.
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Date: 2007-10-24 09:59 pm (UTC)I don't think it's too wise to be too social with work. Sooner or later, you have a conflict, then you have to live with them from then on. I still make friends, I guess, but I'm especially careful.
I like you- thanks for friending me.
What do you like to read?
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Date: 2007-10-24 10:30 pm (UTC)It's more about where I live than where I work. I currently reside in rural Arkansas.
I have friends at work. I used to hang with some of them after hours, but it can lead to weirdness at times. Now, I keep to myself and am friendly when the situation calls for it.
No problem. I hope my entries don't bore you.
I read lots of things. Everything from horror to fantasy to mainstream to classics.
I have a wide variety of favorite authors. Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Jasper Fforde, Christopher Moore, Bentley Little, Ernest Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and many others.
I just like to read.
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Date: 2007-10-25 03:24 am (UTC)OOoooh.... Rural Arkansas! I lived in Rural Iowa, which I imagine is scads different, but I sort of fell in love with it. I found that I loved my family and friends back in Rhode Island more, but it had SO MUCH that you can't find anywhere in New England, especially with the people.
I read all sorts of things, but I'm not much into mysteries, horror, or romance novels. Just about anything else goes- sit me with a well-written children's book, or a classic (Hemingway is my favorite author, BTW, and I love Dickinson's poetry), fantasy, sci-fi short stories, a good contemporary, or maybe an informative nonfiction and I'm happy. :-) I'd talk about what I read a lot more if I could find someone actually interested in that sort of thing.
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Date: 2007-10-25 03:43 am (UTC)I was raised here and left after graduating high school. I lived in South Texas for 15-16 years. I loved it there, but opted to move back home to be close to my family and parents. I still miss Texas, but my standard of life is better here.
I can't stand romance novels. Ick! I spent a year reading books by "the lost generation." (I had a "beats" year as well) A Movable Feast sold me on Hemingway. I've loved Emily since college. I named my youngest daughter after her. She is my favorite poet.
I try to read an equal number of non-fiction, though sometimes I succumb to fiction and drown myself in it. I like to read for entertainment and to learn new things. I have stacks upon stacks of books in my bedroom and the local librarians know all our names.
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Date: 2007-10-25 03:51 am (UTC)What did you like about Texas? I very briefly considered moving there once- there was a teaching job for me there if I'd wanted it.
I tried to force myself to read a Danielle Steel through and through once just to say I did it, but I couldn't. Every fiber of my being fought it- I fell asleep, my mind wandered, my back hurt... I gave up at page 28, after five hours. It was the metaphors that were worst. I love Hemingway so much I won't let myself read all of his work at once- it's too good to devour that way. Every few years I pick up a new one and read it- I'm about due. I reread the others all the time. My favorite is Islands in the Stream.
I'm the only one I know that understands Dickinson. At the end of this post I'll throw on a favorite of hers.
Oh, I agonize over quality reading and consume crappy books like a fire. I don't let myself read junk until I've read X amount of good stuff, though, and I never regret it when I'm done. I especially hate Wuthering Heights, though.
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I years had been from home
And now, before the door,
I dared not open, lest a face
I never saw before
Stare vacant into mine
And ask my business there.
My business,- just a life I left,
Was such still dwelling there?
I fumbled at my nerve,
I scanned the windows near;
The silence like an ocean rolled,
And broke against my ear.
I laughed a wooden laugh
That I could fear a door,
Who danger and the dead had faced,
But never quaked before.
I fitted to the latch
My hand, with trembling care,
Lest back the awful door should spring,
And leave me standing there.
I moved my fingers off
As cautiously as glass,
And held my ears, and like a thief
Fled gasping from the house.
~Emily Dickinson
It's a Toss Up
Date: 2007-10-25 04:19 am (UTC)The Wife without
The Sign.
Acute degree
Conferred on me—
Empress of Calvary.
Royal all but the
Crown—
Betrothed, without the swoon
God gives us women
When two hold
Garnet to garnet,
Gold to gold—
Born—Bridalled—
Shrouded—
In a day
Tri-Victory—
“My Husband”
Women say
Stroking the melody,
Is this the way?
I HEARD a fly buzz when I died;
The stillness round my form
Was like the stillness in the air
Between the heaves of storm.
The eyes beside had wrung them dry,
And breaths were gathering sure
For that last onset, when the king
Be witnessed in his power.
I willed my keepsakes, signed away
What portion of me I
Could make assignable,—and then
There interposed a fly,
With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz,
Between the light and me;
And then the windows failed, and then
I could not see to see.
Yeah, my favorites are about marriage and death. Says bunches about my personality. :P
Actually, it was hard to choose a favorite. There are many dear to me.
Re: It's a Toss Up
Date: 2007-10-25 12:12 pm (UTC)Dickinson is so (justifiably) cynical about love! I love how she combines religious imagery with the word "bridled", since the Bible refers to a married couple as being "yoked", and bridled transfers the metaphor completely.
With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz- That's one of her best descriptions of all time. I also like "zero at the bone".
Live, love, immortality and death- these are a few of Emily's favorite things. ;-)
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