I'm there! Been waiting for the new season, although I must say-next year during the tryouts-I will be even more excited as a 16 yr old stunning, talented gal from here-is trying out. She was told last year when she was 15 yrs old-too young,but "we're keeping an eye out for you for next year"! Well, she turned 16 this past month. She has made a CD already & guest sings with a popular group in our area, about once a month. Awesome voice!

I might. I haven't been watching any tv either except for the occasional movie. I'll definitely be watching Idol when that starts next week, although I don't enjoy the auditions as much watching the top 12 perform.

I swore to myself that I wasn't gonna watch The Bachelor this time around, but when I read that one of the "dates" involved being on the set of General Hospital I knew I had to watch at least this episode. Years ago I was invitied to be on set at General Hospital for a day of taping and it was awesome, so I wanted to see what they were going to do... Anyway, I set the DVR to record it, then buzzed through most of it. So, I don't know "who's who" except that I do know which one is Stephanie (the widow, right?). She looks way older than Jason (to me, anyway), and her face is so tight that I'd swear she's either had plastic surgery or was dosed up with Botox right before she left to be on the show. I saw absolutely no chemistry between them at all, and I was surprised that he kept her and sent the other one home from that two-on-one date. And the one who "ordered" him to give her a rose -- wow. She's a piece of work. I was glad he sent her home at the end.

There are only two places where farting can be a major life event -- the first is anywhere several guys are together; and the other is in a hospital post-surgical ward. Until you can fart, you don't stand a snowball's chance in hell of getting out of there (because if you can't "pass gas," it means your intestines aren't yet functioning after being under general anesthesia). Chris Harrison said in his blog that Wes was asked to be on the MTA special, but declined. Then, Wes started contacting some of the guys in an attempt to see how many would "support him" if he were to appear on it. He then contacted the producers to say that he wanted to be on the show, but they (the producers) said no. I wasn't watching the show at all when Ed left. I think I only saw one episode before he came back. So, although I know he works in Information Technology, I don't know for what company he works, or what his duties/responsibilities are, etc. The "IT world" encompasses one heck of a lot of different stuff. I work in IT, and there are a little over 150 of us in the IT dept. With the exception of the desktop support group (about 20 folks), there aren't too many of us who can take over other folks' duties and responsibilities. Desktop support is desktop support is desktop support. But the database administrators couldn't suddenly take over the duties of the Citrix administrators; the Exchange administrators couldn't suddenly take over the duties of the webmasters, etc. In addition to not having the skills or experience to do the other stuff, there are the network permission restrictions. Only specific folks can log onto a server to apply patches or make any changes; only specific folks can make changes to the network firewall, etc., etc. And there aren't too many folks in IT (at least where I work) who have so little to do that they don't have to worry about whether or not they're at work for days or weeks on end. So, I can completely understand Ed being worried about his job. Any IT person who really cares about what he/she does would be concerned about how it was being handled in their absence.