Green Room - Part 3 Week 0 The Halloween Edition

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Another day and we've hit *130 contestants*??? I wasn't sure that we were going to have as many as Season 3, and here we are, VERY close to doubling it!!

One of the things that makes me really happy is the diversity out there. Lots of new people with new experiences to meet and learn from.

I'm also quite pleased with the people who have experience in the publishing industry who have entered. It always makes me chuckle (well ok, not "chuckle") when I see people talking about "the popularity contest" aspects as if the key to getting published is just writing a really really good, putting it on a shelf and watching the money roll in. As if there wasn't a LOT of networking and self promotion involved.

So how are you this morning? Who have you been enjoying reading/interacting with so far?

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MAKE SURE TO FOLLOW THIS IF YOU WANT TO PLAY! (there's at least one person who linked something in a Green Room, but last time I checked still hadn't done it in either of the two places they need to!!)

"Don't forget to post your Topic 0 posts at: http://community.livejournal.com/therealljidol/69885.html

and most important, remember to go there to READ other people's posts.
and make sure to sign up to play this season:

http://community.livejournal.com/therealljidol/68021.html

If you have any questions, be sure to check out the FAQ: http://community.livejournal.com/therealljidol/67483.html"

Comments

[twirlandswirl.livejournal.com]

I've been up all night doing homework. :(

Boooooo, homework.

[emaline412.livejournal.com]

Really. I don't miss school.

Hi (and I have FAQ ANS for you)

[spydielives.livejournal.com]

I have been working diligently to datamine the hell out of all the other contestants.

BTW - I have hidden some FAQ nuggets in amongst yesterday's green room. Could you move them for me?

The subject tags of the comments should make them easy to find.

Re: Hi (and I have FAQ ANS for you)

[jennieknits.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to seeing what kinds of information you're going to come up with.

I'm feeling really overwhelmed at the moment, with so many entries and so many greenroom comments and whatnot. I feel like I'll never catch up, I can't imagine having time to play with geek stuff like data-mining. Though I REALLY wish I did. Sounds like fun.

[tralfamadore.livejournal.com]

I'm just about to head to work, but I wanted to wish everyone a great morning. I look forward to reading the new entries when I get home!

[anchasta.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I appreciate my desk job! :D

[1-rhiannon-1.livejournal.com]

Good morning! I hope to be able to read some more of the contestants' entries at some point today ... if I can just keep work from getting in the way =)

[anchasta.livejournal.com]

I hear you! Phone calls here, customers demanding service there...what's WRONG with these people?! Can't they see I'm on LJ?!

[twirlandswirl.livejournal.com]

Robert Goulet died :(

[spydielives.livejournal.com]

I heard. *sad face*

[flutterbychild.livejournal.com]

Good morning! Still writing my Topic 0 entry; hopefully I'll finish it today. I look forward to reading everyone's entries and beginning to get to know everyone!

[anchasta.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm glad you are playing. I've seen you around Popfiend's journal, and a few others! ;D

[ambwilson.livejournal.com]

Back at work after a day off to help Kindergarteners pillage a pumpkin patch. So much to do and what am I doing? Reading LJ.

I need help.

:0p

P.S. Posting that first entry was truly scary.

[jldecker.livejournal.com]

It gets easier, I promise. ^-^

Good to see you here!

[chazari.livejournal.com]

Good morning. I brought the cake! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/chazari/1800826099/)

[jldecker.livejournal.com]

OMG! Ghost Cake!

\m/- That is fantastic.

[djner.livejournal.com]

Good morning. I've joined the melee mostly to ee if I can resurrect some form of creative writing that I might have had long ago. Perhaps I'll find some friends from the experience, and perhaps I'll waste more time than I want to admit wasting reading contestants entries. No, it's not wasting time, t's just using it in a different way than I would normally use it.

[anchasta.livejournal.com]

Ditto, ditto, and ditto. Nice to meetcha! :D

[porcelain72.livejournal.com]

Well, if nothing else this will give me a much-needed kick in the ass to write more often. To quote George Carlin: "I have a lot of ideas. Trouble is, most of them suck."

[ewok-626.livejournal.com]

I LOVE THAT ICON!!!! *swoon*

[emaline412.livejournal.com]

Oh, goodness. I'm wearing a blue dress and a headband with devil horns. Halloween is so demoralizing.

I've friended up with adpaz and superhappytime, and I sense a little bonding in the works with Miss lilerthkwake, too.
And can't forget lacombe, a favorite from before LJ Idol began.

[spherissa.livejournal.com]

it's amazing.. i'm in australia and whenever i go offline i forget all about it being halloweén, second i come online it's all HALLOWE'EN... sometimes i think i am being too acclimatised to american culture

[boundfate.livejournal.com]

Ahh, off I go to work. So many contestants to get to know on breaks!

[ladyariadna.livejournal.com]

So many great entries! I look forward to reading more, and hopefully making some new friends in the process!

[ewok-626.livejournal.com]

*comes in dressed as Jack Skellington*

Happy Halloween!

Dress up in a costume and say "Trick or Treat!" I'll give you a candy bar!

[adpaz.livejournal.com]

*walks in dressed in her Rennie Garb - tight blue and purple bodice, an over-skirt of various purple colors on top of a deep purple underskirt and a thin white shirt under the bodice*

Trick or Treat!

(I can never turn down chocolate!)

[adpaz.livejournal.com]

I'm getting ready for a day full of Halloween. I have two Halloween parties to bring the Button to plus trick-or-treating at the local mall tonight and showing him off at two different places in between.

I'm On the Run Girl today!

As for who I'm reading (and this is taking out the wonderful people that I was reading before I signed up this year, like tryslora, xo_kizzy_xo, lj user="flutterby">, rotheche, sideshowbennie, roina_arwen and a few more), I've reconnected with rosepurr, I've met spydielives, emaline412, lacombe, anchasta and ewok_626. And, of course, that's just a start. I suspect I may have a friendslist explosion before the end of this!

[ewok-626.livejournal.com]

It's fun meeting new people. :^) My F/L is exploding, too!

[twirlandswirl.livejournal.com]

Also, I had a dream last night that Bill Nye tried to kill me.

[spydielives.livejournal.com]

*struck nearly speechless*

Oh you are so weird.

[libra-dragon.livejournal.com]

Morning:)
Just doing the work thing this morning after doing to much of that homework thing last night.

I have enjoyed reading all the entries and gaining a few new friends in the process.

Happy Halloween too!

Arrr....

[anchasta.livejournal.com]

I be a Pyrate on this fine, fine day! I sail the desk of doom through the bureaucratic seas, slaying fools where're they may cross me!!

Avast! Ahoy! Where's my mead?! Where's my rum? Maintaining pirate talk while sober is harder than it looks.

Re: Arrr....

[adpaz.livejournal.com]

*hands anchasta a HUGE mug of mead, keeping one aside for herself*

Keeping up with Buttons is harder than it looks too. (Though usually it is better to do it while remaining sober...)

[kelly0182.livejournal.com]

I'm here trying to finish my submission. I swear I have deleted the damn thing and started over about fifty times. I am also looking forward to trick or treat tonight where I ruin my dog's life by making her wear her costume that she hates.

[anchasta.livejournal.com]

lol...just play it easy. I bet you'll do fine!

[aumonae.livejournal.com]

It's so cool to see the varied interpretations of the open post. As one that played it safe, I love going through the entries and getting to know new people.

[spydielives.livejournal.com]

Just wait until we get an open topic.

Those are ALWAYS hilarious, heartbreaking, or horrendous.



[just kidding about the last one, really]

[blackfroggy.livejournal.com]

i'm okay. i'm stressed out (darn you school and work and life!) but I'm surviving.

I planning on reading all the topic 0 posts late friday night (when I actually have time to do read)

[anchasta.livejournal.com]

Be prepared for a long read! ;D

[lordrexfear.livejournal.com]

Is today some kind of Holiday? Everyone is like dressed in weird costumes and talking about ghosts and stuff... what the hell...

Robert Goulet died people... what's this about Vampires and Werewolves? ;) (He says while using his Monster Squad icon)

Also, I wanna thank everyone who commented on my comment in the last green room. I'm going to pour through all those wonderful insights and such in a bit.

The one thing I hate about Halloween? People dressing up their dogs... it's too much!

[anchasta.livejournal.com]

Ah, but being a pirate at work in costume is so much more fun than being a pirate at work in normal clothes!

[mme-furiosa.livejournal.com]

LJ idol has made an all-nighter in the architecture studio infinitely more bearable. I had no idea I would meet so many lovely folks on here, with such diverse talents.

What a wonderful idea, this.

[anchasta.livejournal.com]

I agree...it is a breath of fresh air! I was getting sick of LJ. But now my interest is kicked back up again.

[kindapoetry.livejournal.com]

Happy Halloween!

[shay-writes.livejournal.com]

Happy Halloween everyone!

(NaNoWriMo begins in less than 14 hours)

*passes out homemade popcorn balls to everyone dressed in costume*



I'm the one dressed as the unicorn victim of organ theft.

[anchasta.livejournal.com]

CCHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRLLLLLLLLLIIIIIE!

*giggles, feeding popcorn ball to stray wandering rabbits and squirrels*