Green Room - Week 6 - Day 4

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

I solemnly swear that I'm up to no good!

But then again, you knew that if you've read about the new twist! http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/730477.html

If you still doubt it, you won't by tonight! :)

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So, how was your weekend? Was the Bunny kind to you or did he throw you in a cave and roll a rock in front of it?

Hopefully, you had the time to write an entry and post it here: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/729218.html
if not, you best get to it!! Or you have though, then start reading and commenting!

Comments

[banyangirl1832.livejournal.com]

Whoa! Green room! Hi!

I've been weirdly productive this morning, banged out my entry, worked on another piece for a workshop, and am about to nap. I also have a pretty large Easter basket full of dark chocolate that I can munch my way through this week. So yeah, pretty excited about life right now. How are all of you doing??

[i-will-not-say.livejournal.com]

Yay productivity! Yay dark chocolate! Yay being first! *\o/*

[n3m3sis43.livejournal.com]

Anyone going to be available to beta a post suuuuuper last minute? Like 6ish Eastern time or so? (Yeah, I know it's a long shot.)

[jem0000000.livejournal.com]

I have a thing starting right at six, sorry. Unless 6ish turns out to be slightly earlier than six, in which case I could read it on my phone in the car. It would be sort of hurried, though.

[jem0000000.livejournal.com]

Yay Gary! I like this bye twist. :)

[porn-this-way.livejournal.com]

My big excitement this weekend - I bowed to peer pressure and made plans to go to Dragon Con. This happened after I came to the horrifying realization that the last time I hopped on a plane and went traipsing across the country to a geek convention was five years ago. So totally not acceptable.

[kajel.livejournal.com]

I can't seem to use my netbook properly this morning! lol We live 4 hours from Atlanta. We have been there twice. The last time I was 7 months pregnant. It limited what we could do!

[bleodswean.livejournal.com]

I applaud the "bye twist".

I'm finally standing on the precipice of freedom and ready to launch myself into its particular ether.

I am writing.

[bleodswean.livejournal.com]

Damn. Tempted some sort of grindstone demon with that comment...just got an email requesting I ad hoc the newsletter editor position this week for our community org. *tears hair then slowly backs away from previously prepared for leap into my own mind canyon*

[kajel.livejournal.com]

Good morning from sunny Arizona!!! Between Grandma's 82nd birthday (family bbq that turned into a huge bash with nearly 40 people) and Easter, we have been crazy busy this weekend. The kids were fabulous on the flights out here.

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

Das Bunny was kind to me and mine! I got a yummy basket of Easter goodies, plus a CD of the Frozen soundtrack.

My husband requested a Big chocolate bunny, and boy was he surprised when I got him a GIANT hollow chocolate bunny - it must have been 18" tall, LOL! He also got a Christopher Moore audio book (Fluke), and lots of chocolate!

Additionally, I wrote and posted my entry last night, w00t!

[theun4givables.livejournal.com]

The Bye Twist is one I am liking. Even though I will likely not personally benefit from it. :D But I like being able to help others, and I'm a bye hoarder... Mmm, yesss.

Weekend was crazy busy and filled with saying "See ya," to my best friend and confidant. I'm gonna miss him a lot. The house already feels way too empty without him. =/

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

I'm a bye hoarder too! I still have all three of mine, but as I will be on vacation from the 25th through May 11th, I'm not putting any on the table as yet, since I may want to use one during that time.

[mothermelete.livejournal.com]

I managed to write my entry on the 2-hour drive home last night. Then wrote a lab report in 45 mins this morning. Then still managed to study for my Linear exam, and possibly even did fairly well on it, or completely bombed it. One or the other.

Then I finished all the entries in my lab notebook so that I may possibly get an A in my bio lab. Woot!


Really, the semester is almost done, so I am trying to focus on improving my writing. If Gary hadn't been so kind last week, I was really close to elimination. I may have to get in on kickthehobbit's writing workshop thing.

[kickthehobbit.livejournal.com]

I'd be happy to have you join in, if you're interested. The more the merrier. :)

[caile.livejournal.com]

I was in a play this weekend! I got home from the cast party at 4:15 am today. I don't even know why I'm awake right now. The show went amazingly well!

[banyangirl1832.livejournal.com]

I love cast parties! What play did you perform in?

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

Well, I worked all weekend. It was the quietest Easter weekend in memory...wow, I remember when we used to have wall-to-wall customers clamoring for anything and everything. This year there were spurts of of them, but nothing like what we were expecting. Managers were told to send people home early. I was not one of those people.

Ember Dog has her monthly shot this afternoon for her arthritis. She's been tottering around pretty badly, and I'm wondering if she also has a bit of doggie dementia (is there such a thing?) along with it. Needless to say, most of my time away from work has been spent with her. I'm trying not to worry, but it's difficult.

[banyangirl1832.livejournal.com]

Do you work in a restaurant? It was crickets for us too - only about 40 for brunch. I was meant to work dinner too, but my manager sent me home early because we only had 5 reservations.

Sorry to hear about your pup! Are you on good terms with your vet? It might be time for a checkup.

[banyangirl1832.livejournal.com]

So I'm trying to find a cheap, good writing conference to go to this summer in the Northeast (of the US) and saw one in NYC that sounded really great, and I sent an inquiry email about the price, and guess what it is.

$2500.

That doesn't include lodging, food, incidentals or anything else - that's just the cost of signing up to go to the thing!

Makes the one I found in Rhode Island for $750 (lodging and some food included) seem like quite a deal! Anyone else have any recommendations?

[theun4givables.livejournal.com]

I don't have any, but I will be keeping an eye on this thread. I've been wanting to do something like that since forever, and I'm in the mid-Atlantic area. :)

[flipflop-diva.livejournal.com]

Easter was good. Filled with chocolate and a bunch of cookies I got to take home from the festivities. Mmmmmmm.

But of course now it's Monday almost early afternoon-ish and of course my entry is no where near finished.

Cue panic again ...

[banyangirl1832.livejournal.com]

You can do it!! *jumps around and cheers you on*

[porn-this-way.livejournal.com]

PS - also digging the bye thing. This could have some majorly fun potential.

[i-love-freddie.livejournal.com]

This week has been cursed. Am almost over my kidney infection, thankfully, just a twinge of pain now and then. But this weekend I had a stomach upset. Couldn't write. Today I had a rough draft done - went to edit it, file was corrupt.

I am beginning to wonder if there is some higher force telling me to just use a bye this week and have done with it!

[jem0000000.livejournal.com]

Ouch. *hugs and water* What a weekend!

[beeker121.livejournal.com]

My weekend was fine, visiting the in-laws in Santa Barbara. It would have been better if I hadn't caught a cold the day before we left!

I'm annoyed that between the sickness and family I didn't have time to write this week, and am tempted to still turn my idea into a home game entry just to keep up the muscles. On the plus side, I can start reading everyone else's words now!

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

We're back from visiting family in Oregon, and spent Easter resting up and dreading the restart of the rat-race today.

Good trip, though. And the Easter brought a few different things to the kids than usual, based on the availability of the second half of the chocolate... acquisitions.

[beldarzfixon.livejournal.com]

Wish giving the bye gave someone a poll immunity after s/he posted, then I'd definitely have a couple of people I'd consider giving one to.

[dreamsreflected.livejournal.com]

that's a really wonderful and interesting concept.

[elvagreenfield.livejournal.com]

Anyone around?
I could really, really use someone to read over my entry.

[eska818.livejournal.com]

if you still need someone, I'm available.

[aimercat.livejournal.com]

Between Easter, Passover, 420 and Coachella....the rabbit wasn't so very kind to me. What is it with religious holidays and people not liking/wanting to tip? This has always fascinated me.

The bf and I skipped the easter baskets this year because we're trying to be healthier and well, he also is still dealing with that little wisdom teeth problem so I'd probably just eat all his candy anyway.

[waltzmatildah.livejournal.com]

Coachella!!! Argh! Was it amazing? Should I be jealous of you? I should totally be jealous, yes?

What was your favourite act? Is that an impossible question?

Did you happen to catch MS MR? I love those two crazy kids and they are ridic. live.

TELL ME ALL THE THINGS, COMPLETE STRANGER!!

Easter? What's that?

[uncawes.livejournal.com]

It's early Tuesday morning and I've been home from work for about 90 minutes. One more shift tonight then five days off.
Easter? I have 14kg of fat to get rid of, so no chocolate for me. Just work, the whole long weekend. Which isn't horrible because no big bosses around *and* holiday loading on my pay.
Only downside, I didn't have a lot of time for my home game story this week. But as things go, I'm counting the weekend as a win.
If you're following my rewrite of Norse mythology, the latest installment is here http://uncawes.livejournal.com/2773.html

[dreamsreflected.livejournal.com]

I'm late to the green room party BUT, I did get home from vacation in one piece, and the children are rather clingy but wonderful, work apparently didn't happen today even though I showed up, it would have been nice to know that and planed for it but alas that wasn't in the cards.

had a fantastic discussion about writing with the husband while we were away and came to the conclusion that although devoting more time towards this or other projects may not be practical right now it should still be somewhere in the realm of possibility... maybe... or something. There may have been liquor involved in this conversation.

[onda-bianca.livejournal.com]

Gary up to no good is definitely no good;)

[rswndrlst.livejournal.com]

Came in to post a BYE for this week and saw the BYEs twist. I only have one left and I just knew it was a rookie mistake to use them up this early in the game.

I am going to try to save my last one for the week I will be camping at Faerieworlds in case I make it that far.

Maybe without a safety net I will make a better effort to make time to write or stop doubting my own ability as a writer.

I'm envious of the people who have been doing this for years and I wish I had found LJI sooner but I am really glad I get to part of the last season.

Well off to work and best of luck to everyone in the polls this week.

[tigrkittn.livejournal.com]

With the deadline a few minutes in the rearview mirror, we're at 34 byes and 3 "I've got to drop out"/bye out posts, if I counted correctly (I might not have.) Is it my imagination or are numbers dropping more quickly than usual this year?

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

I think I mentioned in last week's poll results thread that I thought the same thing. I also think I wasn't the only one thinking that.

Off the top of my head? Real Life seems to be more of a bugaboo this season compared to last. I also think more people in general are more "scattered" internet-wise compared to past seasons where LJ was one of the major players in town.