Green Room - Week 6 - Day 4

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

I got a message today from an old friend that I've known since high school. We are on each other's facebooks, but haven't really talked in awhile.

He's been through a lot over the past few years and it's really transformed not only his life, but his thought process. It was really nice to see how much he's grown from the person I knew (I liked the old guy as well - but if he had stayed that way into adulthood, he'd be pretty annoying)

How do YOU see yourself as having grown in a last couple of years? What did you use to believe/hold close that you now look back and go "What the hell was I thinking?"

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The only *truly* unforgivable thing to be thinking right now is missing tonight's deadline: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/884842.html

So don't do it!

Comments

[rayaso.livejournal.com]

I've started reading the early entries, and there is some wonderful stuff there.

[mac-arthur-park.livejournal.com]

Agreed! This is one heck of a season!

[poppetawoppet.livejournal.com]

The last few years have been very same-y in a lot of ways, but also not? So it's hard to say how I've changed exactly. I stopped writing shortly after my dad passed, then this summer I found a new fandom, and my writing is in a place it hasn't been in some time. I'm also getting ready to move house, which is a huge change, so we'll see how that changes me.

I haven't read any of the entries yet, but the topics are enough to get me excited too.

[favoritebean.livejournal.com]

Hopefully, I'm growing thinner. ^-^

As a writer, I've noticed that I've grown more used to writing fiction. When I joined, I wrote a lot of non fiction, and this season, I've written one non fic piece so far.

I can't find the entry, but a few weeks ago, I posted to the Green Room that my father in law curtailed a family visit to visit his best friend who was dying of cancer. Some very kind comments were left, and I wanted to thank those commenters, but I can't remember when the thread happened.

The family friend died this morning, and we are all very sad. My father in law did get to go see him, and they spent a few days together, before my FIL returned to the United States. Still, I am at a loss for how to comfort my family during this time.

Cancer sucks!

[sarcasmoqueen.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear about the family friend. Cancer does indeed suck.

That's just it, Gary...

[ellakite.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've truly matured at all. In too many ways, I'm still the same, stupid kid I was in my youth...

[prog-schlock.livejournal.com]

I take my time now more with things and that has made a huge difference in my life. Sometimes I create something and realize I'd never have had the patience to do it as a younger person.

Here at LJI, I feel like a completely different entity than before.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

27 min to go till deadline (unless I've horribly miscalculated again) and it's time to START my entry, lets do this! :D

[leni-ba.livejournal.com]

Good luck!

[leni-ba.livejournal.com]

Can't believe I did it. Phew! Just...um...don't tell my boss what I've been doing today, okay? *guilty wince*

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

Gary, I have just watched the old movie The Prince and the Pauper, one from 1937, and Lord Hertford there was played by Claude Rains. Is that were your username comes from? (Damn good movie, by the way.)

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

As for the question, not two but three years ago I did not see myself as PhD student. I still don't need the degree for myself, to be honest, but the process will be good for me...

[prog-schlock.livejournal.com]

Rains is wonderful in the 1933 Invisible Man if you ever get a chance to see it.

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

I was considering watching it, but the story is heavy, so I don't yet know.

[tonithegreat.livejournal.com]

Idol has very much had me pondering this question of how have I changed lately. Blogging in general can be so very introspective. It can be hard to draw the line between personal enough to make it interesting and not too navel-gazey. I've already scrapped two entries this year for boring introspection and I feel like I didn't stray down that road as badly last season. Although that could also be because this season is so very hella competitive and I feel there's less room for messing around.