Green Room - Week 38 - Day 3

[clauderainsrm]

We had a training session this morning about the dangers of misuse of personal identifiable information and compliance with European standards. In listing "previous problems: that they had before the implementation of this law: The Nazis

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[ryl]

That's hilarious. Darn those Nazis sharing other people's personal information!

ETA: Oh my god, did I just get a first? I do believe I did! *basks in the first*

[clauderainsrm]

You did! Congratulations!

Although these days, posting before 1pm is almost a guarantee to get first!

[ryl]

I'm taking it as a reward for getting to a negotiable stopping point on the story I've been beating my head against for three weeks.

[clauderainsrm]

Congratulations on getting to a stopping point.

Looks like we've come to a stopping point for Green Rooms as well. :)

[anyonesghost]

Well, c'mon. When you start a Green Room by running into the brick wall of Godwin's Law, there's nowhere else to go. ;-) Cut us some slack! (The onlookers, I mean. Please continue to torture the current contestants with reckless abandon, so that my Schadenfreude levels can escalate over 5000.)

[clauderainsrm]

I put up a post - no one comments.

I mention that I might not put up any more posts - and suddenly people show up. ;)

[anyonesghost]

Nah, my post was independent of that. I make no apologies for slow commenting; as someone living in the godless frozen north™, it's hard to reach a keyboard through the snow dunes.

[lrig_rorrim]

We haven't got the snow dunes here in the upper midwest so much, but it's freakin' cold. It'll be a balmy -7 fahrenheit tonight - which makes going anywhere pretty unattractive.

[jexia]

"the last of the "dreaded topics""

^ happiest phrase EVAH.

[anyonesghost]

I'll call it now: Hell Week will be writing all six of them ... again.

[jexia]

...in intersections...

[kickthehobbit]

...after three straight days of panicking (because, oh God champions, I am so bad at the ask, I don't know anyone outside of Idol who writes and I keep my lj VERY SEPARATE from my Real Life for a bunch of reasons, mostly including crazy family that will threaten to disown me Yet Again)-it's done and it's posted and if fodschwazzle and his wife are ever in Oregon I'm buying them both a beer.

I can happily say that I didn't give a damn about which topic I had to pick. I had ideas for the final one I had remaining (since I did the hard ones first). It was actually finding someone to serve as a champion that almost killed me. I had a panic attack the night the guidelines went up-first time in years-and didn't formally start writing anything until yesterday afternoon...at which point I wrote about 6K words, which is a horrifying new record, even for me.

fod and lrig_rorrim calmed me down some, and gratefuladdict provided levity, as always, but I have to say

[crisp_sobriety]

*hugs* I'm sorry.

I wasn't happy about the champion idea either, for a lot of the same reasons (I'm something of a hermit). I'm glad you managed to get it sorted. :)

[kickthehobbit]

Yeah. I finally just sucked it up and went, "I don't know anyone who would be an 'ideal' champion for Gary without bringing in people I know IRL, and I'm not comfortable with that...so I'm going to go ahead, ask someone I wanted to write with but didn't get the chance to, and hope that they say yes and don't think I'm weird."

...fodschwazzle said yes. Not so sure about the "weird" thing. :)

I guess I should clarify the "people I know irl" and explain.

Outside of my partner/roommate, everyone that knows I have an lj is someone I met on the internet. I lead pretty separate professional/personal lives, for a bunch of reasons-I'm queer and it's actually sort of a Big Deal for what I do, unfortunately; ditto the "having a mental illness" thing-and I have been burned, very badly, by my family finding my journal. These days it's an "open secret", but I still prefer maintaining that level of division, and I didn't want to ask anyone that didn't already know about my journal...thus limiting the pool.

Being closeted, even partially, sucks, y'all.

[anyonesghost]

This makes perfect sense to me. I keep "the_lettersea" pretty distinct from my real life (different specifics, same principle), and my friends list is sparse in terms of non-Idollers at this point. Finding someone new (that I trusted (who would write well (at speed (and was willing to try Idol)))) would have taken some doing. I think I well would have done the same thing, in your shoes.

[jexia]

Phew - glad I'm not the only one whose champion did a topic from the list!