[LJ Idol Season 20] Week 0: Introduction

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:03:53 GMT

So here we are and here I am.

I went back through my posts and determined that the first time I participated in Idol was in September 2008.There's an intro post there from a lifetime ago. 18 years! The four-year-old daughter I wrote about is now 22 and married. The best friend I mention (who gave me my original LJ invite code, when those were a thing) is no longer in my life. I told you all about a job I'd been at for seven years - 11 years later, they'd very unceremoniously lay me off. I've moved from the PNW to the desert outside Phoenix. The cat I had then has since passed away, but I now have three cats that are getting on in their own later years.

Suffice to say, it's been awhile. But I'm still here and I'm still Jill.

I still love Tori Amos. I still love the travel industry after managing to work my way back to it post-layoff and post-COVID. I got my degree in communications because I still love writing and communicating. I'm semi-retired from Girl Scouting, but only because I couldn't find my place in it here in the desert. I've got three (Four? Maybe four.) cross-stitch projects in progress and I bake cookies for my co-workers at my side hustle as your local old lady barista. If I had the time and money in this economy to go back to college for my masters, I'd get it in History - I minored in the subject alongside my bachelors in communication and my niche period of interest is LGBTQ+ history of Germany's Weimar Republic. Instead, I just buy and read a lot of books on and around the topic.

I have two story ideas baking in this head of mine - one that has more meat than the other and really needs to grow its legs and become a real boy. The other is destined to be a short story if I ever get past the executive dysfunction of not being able to start something new without having finished the first thing. I'm thinking I might play with them both here, but I also might not. Hell, I'll just be happy enough if the perimenopause doesn't eat my brain and make me miss too many deadlines.

So, hey, friends. Glad to be back.

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Move bich, get out the way, I've come to LJ Idol to play.

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 21:52:51 GMT

I dropped the T because bich is Latin for generosity. Mkay.

Here's my Very Official Statement of Intent to compete in this, the 20th anniversary of LJ Idol.

Sometimes I try to making writing goals when it comes to Idol and if I've learned anything over the years, that's just - for me, anyway - a stupid fucking idea. So I've got just one goal - write to each prompt, each week. No loafing.

*waves*

Nice to see you all again. Game on!

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I swear it'll be different this time.

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:27:16 GMT

Hey.

For real, I'm gonna do it.

I'm gonna do this mini-season of Idol.

Yeah, I know. The last time I touched this blog was in 2015 and I said the same thing and then *checks blog history* I clearly didn't do the thing.

But 2024 Jill is a different person than 2015 Jill.

For starters, she remembered her password for Dreamwidth, so she's already got that going for her.

So.

Here I am!

*no cartwheels this time, my knees pain me*

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Aurora Borealis!?

[LJ Idol Season 20] Week 0: Introduction

Move bich, get out the way, I've come to LJ Idol to play.

I swear it'll be different this time.