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 The new prompt has been posted - therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1143356.html
as well as the results from last week -therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1143117.html

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I had another interview yesterday that seemed to go pretty well. Who knows though... I've been walking out of most of them feeling good. Maybe I'm just delusional.  :)  

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Did anyone have ideas that popped right into their head when they saw the prompt? Anyone having difficulties with it? 

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How is your week going so far? 

Date: 2024-07-10 01:50 pm (UTC)
aggienaut: (Default)
From: [personal profile] aggienaut
Third!

Haha yes as to the prompt, well I've spent quite a bit of time in Ghana of late, including one of the key locations of the film Sankofa, so where to start!! (for the record, for everyone else, I swear I wasn't the one that put this one in! ahaha)
Edited Date: 2024-07-10 01:51 pm (UTC)

Date: 2024-07-10 04:55 pm (UTC)
halfshellvenus: (Default)
From: [personal profile] halfshellvenus
D'OH, of course you might have a good context for this. You lucky dog! :D

Date: 2024-07-11 06:51 am (UTC)
aggienaut: (Default)
From: [personal profile] aggienaut
Although the one idea I have does not involve Ghana at all, but I feel like I _ought_ to involve Ghana in my answer so I'm still thinking on it.

I feel like the original definition Gary posted might give the idea it's using some forbidden knowledge or taking up some property someone has left behind and claiming it as one's own. I think it really is mainly about looking back at your past and taking lessons from it ... though of course LJI is all about anyone's interpretation of a topic.

Also for what it's worth most of the Ghanaians I polled about the word yesterday did not actually recognize it. So I think maybe it was popularized by the movie of the same name and thus oddly got more recognition outside Ghana than within? Or my contacts are from the wrong region ::shrug::

Date: 2024-07-10 01:53 pm (UTC)
n3m3sis43: (Default)
From: [personal profile] n3m3sis43
I’m drawing a blank for now but hopefully I’ll think of something interesting soon.

Date: 2024-07-10 02:02 pm (UTC)
n3m3sis43: (Default)
From: [personal profile] n3m3sis43
In case anyone else is struggling, I found this in an article by a Black educators’ group at the University of Rochester:

There are several overlapping interpretations:

Taking from the past what is good and bringing it into the present in order to make positive progress through the benevolent use of knowledge.

Going back and reclaiming our past so we can move forward; so we understand why and how we came to be who we are today.

One basic and important meaning still lies; one’s past is an important aspect of one’s future. So in order to make the best of one’s future, one must visit one’s past.

(Full article is here https://www.rochester.edu/diversity/faculty-staff/resource-groups/sankofa/#)
Edited Date: 2024-07-10 02:05 pm (UTC)

Date: 2024-07-10 02:13 pm (UTC)
murielle: Me (Default)
From: [personal profile] murielle
Thank you! This is helpful. :-)

Date: 2024-07-10 03:18 pm (UTC)
thephantomq: (Default)
From: [personal profile] thephantomq
❤️ thank you for this. I am def mulling these over, now...

Date: 2024-07-10 04:55 pm (UTC)
halfshellvenus: (Default)
From: [personal profile] halfshellvenus
That really helps, thank you!

Date: 2024-07-10 04:58 pm (UTC)
muchtooarrogant: (Default)
From: [personal profile] muchtooarrogant
Thanks for the link! Interesting reading.

Dan

Date: 2024-07-10 06:33 pm (UTC)
roina_arwen: Darcy wearing glasses, smiling shyly (Default)
From: [personal profile] roina_arwen
This is awesome! Thanks for the info! ❤️

Date: 2024-07-10 02:11 pm (UTC)
murielle: Me (Default)
From: [personal profile] murielle
The second prompt is following the pattern but for different reasons. Something came to mind immediately and then I thought, no. Not that! LOL!

Date: 2024-07-10 05:02 pm (UTC)
muchtooarrogant: (Default)
From: [personal profile] muchtooarrogant
Ha, do you think you'll eventually give in again? (hugs) Whatever you end up writing about, I look forward to reading it!

Dan

Date: 2024-07-10 02:14 pm (UTC)
pixiebelle: (Default)
From: [personal profile] pixiebelle
I hope the interview turns into an offer!

So funny thing with the prompt: early yesterday, an idea popped into my head and I wrote it down in case it would fit a prompt this season. Wouldn’t you know, it’s perfect for this prompt! As soon as I read the definition, I thought, “huh, isn’t that fitting.” Now, I’ll see if I can execute the idea the way I’m thinking, something new may pop into my head before I get down to write like last week, so we’ll see.

Date: 2024-07-10 02:21 pm (UTC)
adoptedwriter: (Tie-Breaker)
From: [personal profile] adoptedwriter
Hoping all my southern friends are managing with Hurricane Beryl as it barrels through.
I spent the day w kids at Kings Island yesterday riding rides. It was Tie-Breaker's 1st visit and HoneyB's 1st time on a couple of "adult" rides she is now tall enough for. (no coasters yet tho) Best blue "Smurf" ice cream in the land!
I got something posted...originated from a dream I had a couple of yrs ago that I'd already recorded and written about. It's a work in progress as far as a "big" story goes.

Date: 2024-07-10 02:27 pm (UTC)
rayaso: (Default)
From: [personal profile] rayaso
Good luck with your interviews! This is a challenging prompt. As usual for this stage, I have no idea what I'm going to write about. That doesn't change until I hit the Terror stage. That #@$% blinking cursor doesn't seem to move without a heavy jolt of adrenaline. I need an easier process. This has gotten way too old.

Date: 2024-07-10 06:28 pm (UTC)
roina_arwen: Keyboard with emoticons (Emotikeys)
From: [personal profile] roina_arwen
I get that. Sometimes when I’m caught without a clue, I’ll get some actual paper (I often do a first draft on paper, for some reason it seems more inspiring than a screen) and free-write; just any word association ideas or random sentence that comes to mind. It often helps springboard the process. Not always, but often!

Date: 2024-07-10 06:32 pm (UTC)
rayaso: (Default)
From: [personal profile] rayaso
I can understand about the paper. I may try that. Also a word association. Good ideas.

Date: 2024-07-10 02:31 pm (UTC)
roina_arwen: Lilo and Stitch on the beach (Lilo & Stitch - Beach)
From: [personal profile] roina_arwen
My first thought with the prompt went towards Lilo & Stitch. “Ohana means family - nobody gets left behind, or forgotten.”

I’m not sure where I’ll go with the topic yet, but we shall see. It usually takes a day or two of percolating.

Date: 2024-07-10 10:04 pm (UTC)
reidharriscooper: (Default)
From: [personal profile] reidharriscooper
I was trying to come up with a clever response to this and lost it so here's a number:
626

Date: 2024-07-11 12:42 am (UTC)
roina_arwen: Lilo and Stitch on the beach (Lilo & Stitch - Beach)
From: [personal profile] roina_arwen
Ha!

Date: 2024-07-10 03:08 pm (UTC)
mollywheezy: (HUGS)
From: [personal profile] mollywheezy
I hope you get the job! Interviews are so hard. I've had ones that I thought were great and didn't get the job, and the worst interview I've ever had I did get the job. It's so difficult to know . . .

I had an immediate idea for the prompt, but that was the case last week, too, lol. We'll see if I can actually WRITE this time. 😉

Date: 2024-07-10 04:55 pm (UTC)
muchtooarrogant: (Default)
From: [personal profile] muchtooarrogant
LOL Regarding the prompt, I had many many ideas, narrowing the choices down to just one is the challenge.

Dan

Date: 2024-07-10 05:49 pm (UTC)
reidharriscooper: (Default)
From: [personal profile] reidharriscooper
Sorta where I am.
I have the immediate concept grasped to tackle... buyt what story, what element, what will interest readers, what will interest ME to create, and how do I create? what do I create?

Date: 2024-07-10 04:58 pm (UTC)
halfshellvenus: (Default)
From: [personal profile] halfshellvenus
Wow. I'm really hating on this prompt (like, immediately), and so many other people have tons of ideas!

My mind went immediately to "political rant," which is not the kind of thing anyone is going to want to read, and it's being said everywhere right now any way.

My god, 3 entries are up already. Who ARE you people?!?

I hope the interview bears fruit, Gary! And not the rotten, worm-infested kind on your neighbor's tree that hangs over the edge of your property. :O
Edited Date: 2024-07-10 05:02 pm (UTC)

Date: 2024-07-10 06:24 pm (UTC)
roina_arwen: Keyboard with emoticons (Emotikeys)
From: [personal profile] roina_arwen
My god, 3 entries are up already. Who ARE you people?!?

Right??? I mean, sometimes I’m in early, but not that early! It’s an interesting prompt, I like that I get to learn new words and phrases that I probably wouldn’t otherwise encounter.

I’ll be honest, I’m not much for rants, especially the political sort, but if it’s well written and well thought out, I’d probably vote for it regardless, lol!

Date: 2024-07-10 05:07 pm (UTC)
bleodswean: (Default)
From: [personal profile] bleodswean
Prompt kinda blew my mind because...I've got a stock character in my repertoire...we shall see!

Good luck with the latest round! Keep your spirits up! And your head higher!

It's hot here. That is fucking all. Hot.

Date: 2024-07-10 05:48 pm (UTC)
reidharriscooper: (Default)
From: [personal profile] reidharriscooper
It's not hot...
it's fine... this is fine...

Oh god I'm on fire... THIS IS NOT FINE!

Date: 2024-07-10 06:00 pm (UTC)
bleodswean: (Default)
From: [personal profile] bleodswean
LOL!!!

Date: 2024-07-10 05:47 pm (UTC)
reidharriscooper: (Default)
From: [personal profile] reidharriscooper
Huh? wha?

Date: 2024-07-10 06:07 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] tamara_in_jakarta
Fingers crossed on the interview. I'm currently co-existing with my Future ex Husband until going back to Indonesia in 2 days, 16 hours, 23 minutes (give or take, I'm not counting). It will take all I have to just not scream non-stop until then.

Date: 2024-07-11 03:37 am (UTC)
tonithegreat: (Default)
From: [personal profile] tonithegreat
Eeep, that’s quite a countdown! I hope it ticks away without incident.

Date: 2024-07-11 05:13 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] tamara_in_jakarta
2 days 5 hours and change now.

When he asks "Do you hear like a high pitched whining sound?" the expected answer is apparently not "I always thought that was you."

Date: 2024-07-11 01:54 am (UTC)
reidharriscooper: (Default)
From: [personal profile] reidharriscooper
Please don't get confused if you see comments from me on last weeks prompt.

good luck

Date: 2024-07-11 02:29 am (UTC)
vik_thor: (Asgard)
From: [personal profile] vik_thor
on the job search!
(I þink unless it goes obviously bad, most people will tend feel good about þeir prospects after an job interview. Heck, on my few interviews during my furlough during the depþs of COVID 2020, for most of þem I þought I had a chance. And the few not, were obvious misfits between me and þe job/company, I þink brought on by þe people posting the job being unfamiliar wiþ þe process... I did get called back to my job, after 7 monþs I þink...)

noþing popped into mind from the prompt post itself, oþer þan a slight feeling of dread, the þought þat I may end up using boþ byes already... but after going to þe actual page at Berea College, I þink I will have enough to percolate on for a day or 2.
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on the job search!
(I þink unless it goes obviously bad, most people will tend feel good about þeir prospects after an job interview. Heck, on my few interviews during my furlough during the depþs of COVID 2020, for most of þem I þought I had a chance. And the few not, were obvious misfits between me and þe job/company, I þink brought on by þe people posting the job being unfamiliar wiþ þe process... I did get called back to my job, after 7 monþs I þink...)

noþing popped into mind from the prompt post itself, oþer þan a slight feeling of dread, the þought þat I may end up using boþ byes already... but after going to þe actual page at Berea College, I þink I will have enough to percolate on for a day or 2.
<<goes to double check þe deadline>>
Þat may end up cutting it close...
#þorn #AlternateLetter bring back #THORN
(yes, I'm in þat type of mood right now)

Aaaauuugghhhh!

Date: 2024-07-11 03:36 am (UTC)
tonithegreat: (Default)
From: [personal profile] tonithegreat
Yargh! Sunday at noon I’m in the middle of the last day of my cross-continental US and back again road trip. So, either I figure something out for this on the road or I'm one step closer to perishing! Ideas are percolating. But my dudes, I write this comment from my slightly too cold hammock in Rocky Mountain national Park, with a campsite still to batten down for the night before I get into my tent and warm sleeping bag. Good stress and fun choices to make, but still!

Date: 2024-07-11 12:23 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] chasing_silver
I have a few ideas, but haven't settled on anything concrete yet. We are dealing with the loss of our kitty boy and a CRAZY kitten girl who is still kind of settling into the main house!

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