Green Room - Week 8 - Day 9
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therealljidolNow that you have had a couple of days to read what’s out there in the polls – where are the highlights, and more importantly, where are the unexpected gems that you can’t believe more people haven’t read/commented on? http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/673598.html
Because they are out there, and we all know it! Which means it’s your job to sell us on them!
Any trends you have been noticing in this mini-season? (Good or bad) Heck, any predictions on how this whole thing is going to play out? (Yeah, I’m totally asking if you want to jinx someone else by pointing them out! ;) )
Because they are out there, and we all know it! Which means it’s your job to sell us on them!
Any trends you have been noticing in this mini-season? (Good or bad) Heck, any predictions on how this whole thing is going to play out? (Yeah, I’m totally asking if you want to jinx someone else by pointing them out! ;) )
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Date: 2013-07-18 03:11 pm (UTC)I'm not just saying that cause I have been having a lot of problems with my asthma lately and not much sleep.
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Date: 2013-07-18 03:22 pm (UTC)Commenting seems very low, IMO. I've seen some entries with just two or three comments on them. COMMENTS ARE LOVE, Y'ALL!!
I think the season will end with a rough-and-tumble Cage Match between three contestants, each sleep-deprived due to having written eight entries in four days in iambic pentameter, or something sinister like that!
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Date: 2013-07-18 04:20 pm (UTC)For others ... it's a special brand of hell.
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Date: 2013-07-18 03:26 pm (UTC)And now they're saying the break from all this won't be until late in the weekend, if not the beginning of next week. And then it's back to yet another heat wave...
I apologize for griping here. I'm so sick and done with A/C and not being able to take out The Kidz and feeling woozy every time I step outside it isn't funny.
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Date: 2013-07-18 03:43 pm (UTC)I need to go grocery shopping and I'm putting it off because the thought of driving anywhere makes me want to go ~tHuNk~
That said, my brain is also melting. Or at least it feels like it is.
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Date: 2013-07-18 05:40 pm (UTC)Has your power co started asking you guys to do things like use your large appliances (ovens, laundry) in off-peak (night) hours?
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Date: 2013-07-18 07:39 pm (UTC)When the power goes out, keep the door shut, like, don't look in there to see how it's going.
Also, meat can be re-frozen as long as there are ice crystals in it, and if it does completely thaw, you can cook it and then re-freeze it.
Yes, I did work for mumbleteen years in cust serv for an electric company.
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Date: 2013-07-18 09:54 pm (UTC)Heh, I never heard of that water trick. The downstairs freezer is full; the upstairs maybe 2/3rds full. We still have power, although the brownouts have been popping up frequently (at one point this afternoon the A/C seemed to die, even though it's on and wasn't on its energy saver cycle...and it suddenly started again.)
Just took The Kidz out to potty. It's still too blasted hot out there to even think of walking them. I think they finally understand they're going to have to wait until SO gets home from PT Job.
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Date: 2013-07-18 08:51 pm (UTC)I wouldn't go outside if it wasn't for work. The heat is driving me crazy.
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Date: 2013-07-18 09:58 pm (UTC)Yesterday at work we had to go into pre-emergency procedures to make sure the refrigeration/freezers didn't conk out. They shut off the A/C for a bit, and for awhile there it was cooler outside, believe it or not, compared to inside.
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Date: 2013-07-18 06:49 pm (UTC)Some shout-outs for awesome writing which is needing more love (there may be more later), one per each poll:
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- I have a soft spot for dystopias, and
- I really liked
- I was super excited by
- And in the "bamf" poll, I see that
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Date: 2013-07-18 11:44 pm (UTC)And you're welcome - I think yours was a really strong entry, in a very competitive category and for a hard prompt, too.
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Date: 2013-07-19 02:40 am (UTC)Save the Bees
Date: 2013-07-18 08:14 pm (UTC)So, thought I'd mention this article http://kathrynrose.livejournal.com/816472.html?thread=5883224&#t5883224
Check out www.house.gov if you want to contact your Representative. The number listed for my rep was a mailbox that was full, but clicking his name sent me to his website and I got his office number and talked to a staff person. Your call will be given more weight if you mention the bill number (H.R. 2692) and just give them a one or two sentence explanation of why you want them to support the bill.
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Date: 2013-07-18 09:36 pm (UTC)I have finished one poll, and I'm afraid I'm not commenting much. I've been refraining, because I feel like my brain is a little disconnected from the rest of my body, and everything that comes out is not quite right.
With that in mind, some of the stuff I have read has been fantastic. If I can get my act together, I'll name specific entries tomorrow.
Hugs to all.
in case you're keeping up with this heat wave news
Date: 2013-07-18 10:01 pm (UTC):melts:
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Date: 2013-07-18 11:40 pm (UTC)It's been really hard for me to identify overall trends in this season - I don't know why, exactly. I can definitely identify one personal trend that I find a little odd - my votes have been astonishingly consistent. Last season, and last mini-season, I definitely had favorites I often voted for, but it wasn't like, every week was marked green for those folks in the spreadsheet. Nor were there a lot of red streaks in the spreadsheet either. This time around, though, my voting trends are a lot more predictable. I'm still reading everything, and I'm actually a little surprised looking at the spreadsheet to go "really? I've voted for that person every single week?" but there it is! Maybe everyone is just really in their groove and doin' what they do. I dunno. Anyone else noticing this?
As for a prediction about how this will all play out - nuhuh! You can't fool me, mister Evil Overlord. I'm not going to tell you my hopes and dreams only to have you cackle madly, dangle me over a pit of angry badgers, and then rip all those dreams cruelly away. :P
(Though I'll be reallllllly surprised if at least two of the people I'm betting on don't make the finals. And those names are super sekrit with a k, so there.)
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Date: 2013-07-19 06:50 am (UTC)