To-Do Lists + Reality TV

Here's my list for today - only the most important things. I started the walking in circles thing and couldn't find my Hip Household Organizer I made at Archiver's a couple of months ago. I really love it - it's nice and big and has lots of pockets and room for all kinds of stuff. It would help if I could find it. Finally found it in guest room after reaching near panic stage because it has my Brazilian Visa application and I have to turn that in this weekend. I have to get two more passport pictures taken today to go with the application. And the cats are down to the last few morsels of food. If I don't get food for them today, I suppose they'll have to live for a few days on all the food they scatter around on the floor. A million things to do, and here I sit blogging. Avoidance?

I just heard on the radio that the Tigers/Vols game tickets are going for around $3,000 on an auction they're doing for charity. I'll try to post you on the final selling price.

Speaking of the game, I will not be making a prediction. My prediction about Yau-Man winning Survivor (see previous post) was completely wrong - he was the third person voted off last night. Of course, he was a big target because he is full of integrity and is beloved by everyone. I hate it when the nice people get voted off and the mean people win. At least Johnny Fairplay (he is diabolical and a VERY BAD actor) was the first to leave. So now I don't care. I have to say the challenges were great last night. I'm really surprised no one suffered a broken neck in the island version of football. It was brutal. The coconut toss was very clever, too. Very much like basketball with a twist. I wish they'd do a 30 minute show without all the drama and scheming and drawn out tribal councils and just show the challenges.

Now that the writer's strike has ended, we'll get some real television. Can you believe the proliferation of reality shows? I'm not the only one in my circle of friends who's addicted to them - just look at Juli's blog (JustFindYourJoy - see link at left) - her list of favorite tv shows is not unlike mine.

All for now - GOTTA get busy!

Survivor is Back!

Not a minute too soon and Survivor is back. You must watch it just for Yau-Man, pictured here. He's quite an amazing person. He's the Chief Technology Officer for the College of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and just the sweetest, kindest, truest Survivor contestant ever. I'll go out on a limb and predict he will win this one. I think my favorite Survivor moment ever was in a previous season when the Survivors were trying to open a big wooden crate that was dropped from a plane onto their beach. All the big, brawny guys were slamming the crate with a huge sledgehammer, to no avail. Little Yau-Man walked up, lifted the crate, and dropped it on its corner onto a rock. The crate cracked open. He modestly explained that the corner is the weakest point of a box. Applied science.

On tonight's episode, he used a drop of water on his glasses to magnify the sun's rays to start a fire in the coconut husks. More applied science. I'd want to be on Yau-Man's team.

My worst Survivor moment was when Dreamz traded a promise of the immunity idol (if he won it) to Yau-Man for a truck Yau-Man had just won on the show. Dreamz won immunity and then went back on his word and kept the immunity idol, causing Yau-Man to be voted off, only because the remaining players knew they would never win a vote by the other survivors between themselves and Yau-Man.

One more thing. Aren't you glad Johnny Fairplay was voted off tonight? I just couldn't take much of his smarmy posturing. I guess his teammates couldn't either.

Maybe I should start a separate TV blog. As a matter of fact, I need to cut this short so I can go watch Celebrity Apprentice on DVR.