American Idol Predictions and Idiocracy

I'm still mourning the loss of Michael Johns on American Idol. I really thought he'd be in the top 3 this season.

Even though I was dead wrong about this, I'll go out on a limb and make my prediction about this Season's winners. Here goes. David Cook and Carly Smithson will be #1 and #2, not necessarily in that order. Jason will finish #3 (click on the video below. I've never liked dred locks before, but he's so adorable with them. And I love his version of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" pictured here.)

David Archuletta will finish #4 Brooke will finish #5 Kristie Lee will finish #6 Sayesha will finish #7. However, if there's an upset, it will be that Carly is voted off early and in that case, I think Jason will be in the top 2. I've been guessing the #1 winner right for the past few seasons, if not the rest of the lineup. I really thought Chris Daughtry should have won his year, so I was wrong then. And I thought Constantine should have finished #3 in his season.

I'm watching "Idiocracy". I rented it again. I normally don't enjoy silly movies, but I this one works for me because the main character played by Luke Wilson is sane and trying to deal with an insane world - like a lot of the plots in my books. In case you've not seen it, Luke Wilson ("Joe") is the most average joe in the military and is put into suspended animation in a military top secret project. The project got shelved, he got lost, and he awakens in the year 2505 to a much different world. Unfortunately, it's not a better world, but a world in crisis. Suddenly, he's the smartest man in the world - by a long shot. Everything's nuts. It's not the Star Trek future. In this world, the buildings are leaning against each other and held together with big ropes or rubber bands. There's a highway overpass that's broken in half where cars just drive over - why do I always giggle at this scene? It gets me every time. :) The idiocy really annoys me in this movie, and yet, I like the movie. I think Luke Wilson and his costar, Rita, the most average woman in the world of 2005 when the army experiment was done, makes the movie. Get a glimpse for yourself. View the video above.

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I can't believe Michael Johns was voted off American Idol tonight. I'm in deep, deep mourning. He was my first favorite this year. And he's soooooo cute. I'll miss him very much. I really hope he picks up a recording contract.

I thought I was over being sick, but obviously I'm not. The bad coughing returned this afternoon. I called the doctor and now she says I have bronchitis. Great! I already missed one week of work and used a week's vacation time on it. I can't afford to miss more. The hubby made me stay home tonight and not go to the daughter's softball game. I really love to watch her, but I don't feel well. So I'm watching a rerun of Desperate Housewives big tornado episode. I missed it the first time, and I've no idea why it's being replayed tonight, but it is, soooooo. So this will be a short post tonight.

Before I go, I have to say the bathrooms at the day job have weird working toilets. Automatic flushers were installed a month ago. In two of the stalls, the damned things flush before you even sit down. And then they flush every time you move. They grab the seat covers before you can use them. In a couple of the other stalls, they've stopped working.

And why is it that several women at work talk on their cell phones in the bathroom? It's not exactly private. And why would they want the person on the other end of the line to hear flushing, and worse? Ewww.

Oy!!! I can't believe the stupid thing I just did. I accidentally posted this to my publisher's blog. I posted and then when I checked, it wasn't on MY website. It finally struck me that I could have posted it to the wrong blog. Voila! That's where it was. Hopefully, I got it off quick enough no one noticed it was in the wrong spot. It would be very embarrassing.