The deadline for the Week 0, voluntary (as in not required) topic is tomorrow at 8pm EST! http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/863082.html
The Sign-up sheet is also still open - http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/861191.html
I know I keep mentioning that, but I do it because it's important! Originally I was thinking 100-120 people would make this twist to the game work. Which means the floor on that is 100. *Could* it work with fewer? Maybe. But let's not find out!
I know that "LJ isn't what it used to be", but I also know that LJ Idol is worth people coming back to Livejournal! I'd think that even if I wasn't the one in charge. :)
We have had some fantastic new entries into the fray over the past couple of days! We've gone from needing "40-something more people" to "20-something". (there are a couple people who have paid and sent in their topics, but haven't posted a declaration yet!!!) So hopefully we can have that aspect locked down before Thanksgiving and be able to start strong on December 1st!
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In the meantime - what's pissing off your corner of the internet today?
The Sign-up sheet is also still open - http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/861191.html
I know I keep mentioning that, but I do it because it's important! Originally I was thinking 100-120 people would make this twist to the game work. Which means the floor on that is 100. *Could* it work with fewer? Maybe. But let's not find out!
I know that "LJ isn't what it used to be", but I also know that LJ Idol is worth people coming back to Livejournal! I'd think that even if I wasn't the one in charge. :)
We have had some fantastic new entries into the fray over the past couple of days! We've gone from needing "40-something more people" to "20-something". (there are a couple people who have paid and sent in their topics, but haven't posted a declaration yet!!!) So hopefully we can have that aspect locked down before Thanksgiving and be able to start strong on December 1st!
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In the meantime - what's pissing off your corner of the internet today?
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Yeah. Yesterday was a bad day. And I'm glad that so far I haven't received another phone call home from my child's school.
Right now I am too busy enjoying actually building a world together with a good friend. :) I am bad at the actual worldbuilding part of writing, hah.
*grumbles*
I've been doing a ton of monitor avoidance. And I don't mean the lizard.
How's you?
Hmm. As for the news, nothing moved my internet friends to strongly react recently, that's all the good new I need.
I was getting like no comments ever from usually having regular correspondence.
Facebook seems to be dying now too (at least for me)... Twitter seems to be the one spot I get traction.
What's the point of sharing thoughts to the world if the world doesn't react or prove they're still an audience?
I don't have a no tolerance policy for it, and I don't stop talking to people over posting stuff I don't agree with. But if we have a conversation about it and I discover that there's a fundamental disagreement, or they continue to post stuff reprehensible...I don't want anyone in my life that doesn't respect me or my family, and posting a lot of racist drivel tells me they don't.
The one and only time I reneged on this was with someone I didn't want to lose contact with, and they very quickly showed that I'd made the wrong choice in letting them back in (yay, speculation about how my family must have come here illegally, or I wouldn't be so sensitive about it!). So nowadays I just defriend and get on with my life, because it's too short to spend pissed off at content I can control seeing.
I know the world is full of problems. I'm not blind to that. But I don't need to be "friends" with terrible people.
A student sneezed on me this morning and I have been bathing in sanitizer all day.
On the bright side, I have a hot chocolate now and I'm super excited for the holidays!
May be getting a new laptop this weekend. If I do, I'm in :) I haven't wanted to declare until I could make a commitment (says she whose work day starts now at 4am which means she's up 215am...)
That's really all.
The internet probably is also what gave me my cold. Yes, the internet.
Mostly the being ignored thing.
Now you feel loved!!
*kicks you some more*
Extra loved! :)
I WANT TO WRITE ALL THE THINGS.
I have the entry for Week 0 to write tonight, AND NaNo, which I'm hilariously behind on but still have hope of pulling off a win... somehow. And. AND. I found an online publishing house that is looking for a story for an anthology that I could write. Have started writing, for another anthology. Now I just need to finish that stinker.
Oh wait, I'm avoiding the internet right now because it's full of depressing things so that's just me.
But the internet is also full of videos of animals riding Roombas.
Thank you little voice! Now I have something to do tonight!
We received an offer on the house we put on the market a week ago, and after the dancing involved, it looks like we will enter escrow soon.
Oh, and it's my birthday, so I've been recruiting after a two month hiatus from Facebook. ^_^
I did, however, want to say hello to those who might remember me, and tell all of you that I miss this sweet community of cool peeps. I hope you all have a blast! And, geez, I hope you all show your appreciation to Gary on the regular. This is a pretty impressive thing he's managed to do.
Love to all. Be well!!!!!
*flounces*