LJ Idol - Season VI!

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   Notwithstanding that next week I'm leaving the country, whereupon I'll spend the following month traveling through five different countries, and notwithstanding then after only two weeks back here I plan to go out to sea for several months after that, I still intend to give therealljidol the best shot I can this season. :D
   And if I can do that, you do not have an excuse. :D :D


   I'm not sure why I did LJ Idol in the first place, being as the thought of most competitions on LJ fill me with loathing and disdain for the vanity of it all. I think it's because from the start I saw that LJ Idol was so big and strung out that it is more about the journey than the end. It's not one of those small communities of people patting eachother on the back and laughing at outsiders, but its not filled with gratuitous amounts of unwarranted warm fuzzies either. It is, in fact, the perfect balance of good sporting LJing. Its something to do to challenge yourself to blog the best you can, and make a lot of friends along the way.

   ...though I still think the "greenroom" is a dismal quagmire to be by and large avoided until the population of contestants gets down to 50 or so.


   So I strongly encourage you to jump into the mix. Don't stress about it being "a competition" and don't even plan to degrade yourself by asking your f-list to vote (though if you ARE going to be competitive about it don't be too proud to -- by the time I was eliminated last year most people still in were asking their f-list to vote for them multiple times a day)


   Also, of say the six people I really got to know in Idol last season, four of them got laid as a direct result of Idol, and the other two were already married. ;)


And here is a promotional poster the delightful miss whirled made for me:

Comments

[lotjeisgraaf.livejournal.com]

This isn't at all Idol related, but I'm also traveling in November/December. Want to compare itineraries and see if there's overlap?
I will be in England, Belgium, France, Spain (Barcelona, Alicante, Gibraltar and Canaries), Portugal (Madeira), the Bahamas and Florida.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Doesn't look like overlap, I'll be in Turkey, Israel, Jordan, Egypt and then New York. (:

I look forward to hearing about your adventures!

[agirlnamedluna.livejournal.com]

In conclusion: you need to head this way so we can go for coffee (okay well &^&*^% water for me) with three!

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Yeah I want to get out there at some point.

Also I neeeed to visit that brewery monastery!!

[agirlnamedluna.livejournal.com]

Oh certainly! There's a lot of interesting breweries and what have you around if that one isn't open though.

[lotjeisgraaf.livejournal.com]

Oh I forgot to add New York to mine, though I'll only be there in the beginning, so still no overlap. Was worth a try anyways :-D

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Well... you're travelling in November/December, I'm travellinig in October/November, so what's at the beginning of yours may be the end of mine! I'll be in NY Nov 7th through 16th I think.

[lotjeisgraaf.livejournal.com]

Oh. Well I'm really only just missing you in NY then. I'm leaving there on the 5th.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Oh dang.

Where are you normally located? Have you been to NYC before?

[lotjeisgraaf.livejournal.com]

I'm living in NC. I was in NYC in May, it was my first time.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

I was there once before. I looved central park (:

[lotjeisgraaf.livejournal.com]

Yea, it's a really neat place! I'm excited to be going back, even though it'll be cccccold :-p I could totally live in NYC. But then, there's so many places I would love to live!

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Eh I don't think I'd want to live there, I kind of loathe cities. d:

[agirlnamedluna.livejournal.com]

We need to go for coffee some time when you're in Belgium!

[lotjeisgraaf.livejournal.com]

Yes, definitely! :-D