Green Room - Week 8 - Weekend Edition
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therealljidolBefore I get to anything else, I missed a special birthday yesterday and wanted to make sure I mentioned it - Happy Birthday to our own ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
yamyam_kat! I hope it was a good one/ *kicks you for being a mini-hippie because that would be the "treating everyone equally regardless of age thing to do*. ;)
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The poll is up: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/979718.html
So make sure to get over there and give your favorite entries some love! That's what Valentines Day is all about right? Giving some love? Or massacring a bunch of people. Maybe expressing your love by shooting random people through the heart with arrows. I'm not sure exactly what it's about, but I'm sure I'm going to get it sooner or later...
The point being to make sure to support the folks you want to see more of, and of course, tell folks who *aren't* currently in Idol to check it out as well. This only works as well as people can spread the word. Otherwise it becomes a weird echo chamber - and that's not any fun for anyone. So get the word out! *Especially* get the word out because when I come back from "wedding stuff", they might have a chance to do something about not being in Idol. Or should I say, they might have another chance to do something about that. So definitely start putting that out there...
Which kind of dovetails into my other thought (I only have one at a time) about how when we have huge seasons, I always hear "there are TOO MANY people to read!" and this season was really small compared to Season 9 (which was mega-hyped, whereas this was a lot more low-key, so that makes sense) and I keep hearing about low numbers *while at the same time* hearing that it's still too many people to read. ;) It's funny how that works. No big "nature of humanity" conclusion. It just amuses me. (and is the type of thing that might get some folks fired up... One thing I will say about this season, so far, is the total lack of drama. (at least on *my* radar.) Which I also think puts it in the "low key" category. That said, this thing is far from over - and there's always *someone* who gets annoyed at SCI, so we might not be out of the woods yet on that... there are advantages and disadvantages to the pot being stirred. I'm glad that's it's not happening *right now*, because I have other stuff going on. :) But it does have me looking over my shoulder wondering who is going to be the first one to break! Will it be YOU???? *cue dramatic music*.
yamyam_kat! I hope it was a good one/ *kicks you for being a mini-hippie because that would be the "treating everyone equally regardless of age thing to do*. ;) ***
The poll is up: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/979718.html
So make sure to get over there and give your favorite entries some love! That's what Valentines Day is all about right? Giving some love? Or massacring a bunch of people. Maybe expressing your love by shooting random people through the heart with arrows. I'm not sure exactly what it's about, but I'm sure I'm going to get it sooner or later...
The point being to make sure to support the folks you want to see more of, and of course, tell folks who *aren't* currently in Idol to check it out as well. This only works as well as people can spread the word. Otherwise it becomes a weird echo chamber - and that's not any fun for anyone. So get the word out! *Especially* get the word out because when I come back from "wedding stuff", they might have a chance to do something about not being in Idol. Or should I say, they might have another chance to do something about that. So definitely start putting that out there...
Which kind of dovetails into my other thought (I only have one at a time) about how when we have huge seasons, I always hear "there are TOO MANY people to read!" and this season was really small compared to Season 9 (which was mega-hyped, whereas this was a lot more low-key, so that makes sense) and I keep hearing about low numbers *while at the same time* hearing that it's still too many people to read. ;) It's funny how that works. No big "nature of humanity" conclusion. It just amuses me. (and is the type of thing that might get some folks fired up... One thing I will say about this season, so far, is the total lack of drama. (at least on *my* radar.) Which I also think puts it in the "low key" category. That said, this thing is far from over - and there's always *someone* who gets annoyed at SCI, so we might not be out of the woods yet on that... there are advantages and disadvantages to the pot being stirred. I'm glad that's it's not happening *right now*, because I have other stuff going on. :) But it does have me looking over my shoulder wondering who is going to be the first one to break! Will it be YOU???? *cue dramatic music*.
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Date: 2017-02-11 02:58 pm (UTC)First!
How's the wedding planning going? Did you decide on food or a cake after all?
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Date: 2017-02-11 03:10 pm (UTC)A. Too busy and
B. Too oblivious
to get involved in that stuff.
In seasons past, when the shit hits the fan, I was the one who wandered into the Green Room two days late, looked around and went " Umm, something looks different. Why'd we have to replace the carpet?"
I'm a hippie Aquarian. The kind who wonders hopefully "Why can't we all just get along?"
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Date: 2017-02-11 03:48 pm (UTC)Not sure if I posted this or not, but that "OMG, it's 7pm we can't just serve people cake" instinct kicked in, and at one point Cynthia was going to order a bunch of pizzas and cancel our own dinner plans. (Before anyone else was ever coming to this thing it was the two of us getting married, with maybe a couple other folks there and then going off to a romantic dinner, but then folks wanted to come... and so we said "We can have cake down at the riverfront park...)
I mentioned this potential plan to two different friends (the ones coming with their kids) and was told "AbsolutelY NOT. We can feed ourselves. Don't you DARE cancel plans to make other people happy. This is YOUR wedding. We knew what this was from the start, there are NO expectations of anything other than enjoying seeing you guys get married!"
That meant a lot to hear.
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Date: 2017-02-11 04:08 pm (UTC)**tosses in hornet's nest**
**runs out of room**
Hey -- us hippies like to stir stuff up!
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Date: 2017-02-11 04:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-02-11 04:14 pm (UTC)How does it feel to be older?
No comment! LOL!
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Date: 2017-02-11 04:38 pm (UTC)Happy birthday!
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Date: 2017-02-11 04:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-02-11 05:12 pm (UTC)I'm off to church but will celebrate by reading all the wonderful entries when I get home! (Big smile)
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Date: 2017-02-11 06:27 pm (UTC)Okay, actually, I haven't been around much, and it sounded like you needed some drama/outrage (dramrage!) so I created it.
Carry on. Or don't. Don't let me tell you what to do.
Good luck in the polls everyone! Time for me to get to reading.
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Date: 2017-02-11 09:50 pm (UTC)Yeah, I've been very guilty of not reading. Think I've done it once. It goes like this, see:
* Idol season finishes, leaves a big hole in our lives
* We pick up other activities or sleep or something to fill in that gap
* Idol season starts again. We elbow and kick all of the other stuff to make room for writing
* We forget that Idol /also/ means hundreds of entries to read (at least, I do)
* We whine about "too many entries to read!". At the same time, we are noticing less comments on our own entries, or a quieter green room or whatever, so we /also/ whine about the season being quiet.
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Date: 2017-02-12 12:43 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2017-02-12 02:53 pm (UTC)But then you have to weigh, and measure, and give credit, and (if you're not me) comment, and you have to decide whether or not to use a spreadsheet, and that's just exhausting. :-)
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Date: 2017-02-12 06:49 pm (UTC)Maybe I'm wrong. I'm frequently wrong. (there's your drama, my self deprecation)
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Date: 2017-02-12 07:58 pm (UTC)http://hwango.deviantart.com/art/Happy-Horned-Lizard-Day-15172932
...and for anyone who doubts that the whole "squirting blood" thing is real:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgB4u6Mgy2M
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