these few weeks, reality and tv land have just fused in my mind or something. like three days before second pros, i dreamt i was interviewing felicity huffman in some beautiful house which belonged to me, and then later i dreamt i was doing the same thing with ryan seacrest (must be too much idol huh) about a textbook he had written which features a section on, wait for this, microbiology contributed by our favourite brit prof. like, what's the link?!

and american idol is getting crazier and loonier. first, all that weird voting -- lisa tucker getting into the bottom three the week that she sang so well (she sang signed, sealed delivered) and paris and bucky -still- being on the show. paris is just going through the paces really, no soul, no honesty in her music. remember her rendition of "fever"? that was sad, but praised by the judges. bucky has been going from strength to strength now, but the initial part was so shaky i expected him to be voted out soon. now mandisa getting voted despite not being the worst performer.

and second, all the looney antics of the judges, and ugh, ryan seacrest about his dating terri hatcher. i mean, what's with the beard? but i must admit i loved simon's rejoiner about ryan trying to look like a characted from "desperate housewives". must have been one of the best quips of the season. heh.

onto more sobering things, the viva list comes out tomorrow. apparently some folks (and their parents!) have been bugging the dean's office about it since last week (they obviously don't have relatives who are teachers), so the brit prof had to email us saying please stop calling so that they can mark and add up the marks in peace. funny, no?