Survivor 33: Millennials vs Gen-Ex - Blog Pool Match-Ups Announced!

Lifeguard Laurie has worked her mojo once again and came up the random matches for the blog pool! Yay, Laurie! And, we believe we have a record number of participants, too! Fifty people asked in for the season. We can only hope that might be an omen for a great season ahead of us!

As is our standard practice -- the blog people who have the honor of being chosen for the person who ends up the first boot of the season will get reassigned to someone else. After all, we never really get to know that first castaway out! 

Here are the matches Laurie randomly chose:

Millennials - Vanua Tribe 
Adam Klein - Brian, Kelsey NY, Sharon N 
Jessica Figgy Figueroa - Donna in Alabama, Laurie 
Justin Jay Starrett - Becky, Jackie, Shayne 
Mari Takahashi - cwcamper, Marthalight 
Michaela Bradshaw - Donna in NY, Krysta G, Pinky 
Michelle Shubert - Ed in Ohio, Nickelpeed 
Taylor Lee Stocker - Donna in FL, Janice from GA, Stephanie in Baltimore 
Zake Smith - Beachmom, monty924 
Will Wahl - Cheryl, Indiana Jane 
Hannah Shapiro - David, meb, Terry is a Texan 

Gen-X - Takali Tribe 
Bret LaBelle - Brandi Peralta, Judi Sweeney, Skyriverblue 
Ciandre CeCe Taylor - Anonymouse, Merrilee 
Chris Hammons - Cheryl in NC, Jennasmom 
David Wright - Buzzmaam, MikesGirl, Sharon C 
Jessica Lewis - Cupcake, Jean, Petals 
Ken McNickle - Dolores in Hollywood, Margo, Russ 
Lucy Huang - Delee, ML 
Paul Wachter - ChickMc, PDX Granny 
Rachel Ako - Glenn, Lanell from TN 
Sunday Burquest - Brenda, Kristen from Ohio, SueGee

If you want to check out a bit on your castaway, my meet the casts posts are at:
Millennials - Vanua Tribe 
Gen-X - Takali Tribe 

Is everybody ready for a HUGE night of television tomorrow!?!? 

BB18: Live Feeds into Tuesday - September 20

Talking her case in the dark

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Anxious Ants:

• Well, I figure the house ants have heard about the BBOTT season coming up and they're anxious to have new hamsters to annoy!
• Other than that, I really don't have hardly anything for you -- not much happened after my last report.
• They all turned to bed fairly early. 
• I think the stress of the downtime waiting time is getting to them.
• Most of the conversations are rehashes of previous conversations at this point.
• It still stands that Paul will almost 100% (almost because you can never totally predict!) take Nicole to the final two if he wins the third part of the HoH.
• It's also extremely likely that Nicole will take Paul instead of James if she wins the final part.
• James, on the other hand, seems to realize it and is pretty much settled in his probably position of third place.
• And that's that. 

Really looking like the final two

And so it goes ...

BB18: Live Feeds into Monday Night - September 19

Sadly thinking he's third place

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Torture:

• Before I get going on this report, I want to thank the commenters in the last update who were concerned for my safety. Yes, the New Jersey aspect of the NYC/NJ bomber is nearby. Elizabeth is my county seat where I serve jury duty (gah!) and Linden is just two towns over from me. We're talking small towns in square miles -- about maybe 15 minutes on back roads away. Plus, I do take NJ Transit trains for my work commute. But all is well and the good guys won! 
• Onto the BB schtuff ...
• As James would say, one more day and a wake up.
• I'm actually getting tired of the countdown being said that way.
• The yard is still open.
• Nicole and Paul spent most of their alone time together badmouthing James.
• Nicole is tired of him bringing up his daughter (family card!).
• Paul is tired of James bragging about how good he is at wall comps .. and comps in general.
• Paul tried to get James to admit to throwing comps to no avail.
• Nicole told Paul about James telling her how great it would be if the two vets made the final two.
• James told Nicole that he thinks he would only have two votes if he were in the final two.
• He just might be right with that.
• If James is in the final two with either Paul or Nicole, the best he could do is second place.
• BB decided to thrill them with a big surprise! They showed them a commercial for BBOTT (the fall online only season).
• "But what are they going to do with us?" wondered Nicole.
• They also gave them a blackboard.
• Now they can give the new hamsters tips!
• All alone, James gave a big talk to us/family/friends about how he'll be out in third place, should have kept Corey not Nicole, but no regrets.
• Aw, how sad. 
• But he should have played the game not the showmance!
• That's it for now. 

Badmouthing James at every chance

Will the jury be bitter?

BB18: Live Feeds into Monday - September 19

Take James or Paul? Gotta win first!

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Days to Waffle:

• Once again, they stayed awake for quite a bit ... for them.
• It seems that Nicole might be waffling and considering taking Paul if she wins the third part of HoH.
• Paul, on the other hand, seems pretty dead-set to take Nicole if he wins the third part of HoH.
• BB gave them some alcohol -- just about as much as they were issuing the whole house of hamsters earlier in the season!
• Both Nicole and Paul imbibed more than James.
• Nicole is worried that Natalie is influencing the girls' vote in the jury house and that James might have more votes than she had given him credit for.
• And, (due to alcohol?) she pretty much said the same to James.
• He said he won't be mad with either way she goes.
• I say he should have tried harder during the game and "gotten blood on his hands" instead of now sitting back thinking both will take him to the final two.
• They still have three days or, as James would say, two days and a wake-up.
• It still looks like, due to speech practices, Paul will take Nicole to the final two if he wins the last part of HoH.
• Now Nicole's choice is looking a bit doubtful.
• But that's subject to waffling. 

If he gets to final two, he could win it all.

On shaky ground with both now? Hmm.

BB18: Live Feeds into Sunday Evening - September 18

Practicing her speech to the jury

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Schemin' Demons:

• Okay, so there's not much scheming going on lately.
• They were awake for hours today and also had the yard.
• Woohoo.
• Nicole and Paul separately practiced their speeches and possible answers to juror questions.
• A bit of interesting insight to those speeches ...
• Nicole's speech and "answers" seem to put James in the other chair.
• Paul's practice seems geared towards Nicole in the other chair.
• What we can probably infer from that is that if Nicole wins the third part of HoH, she'll be taking James. If Paul wins the third part, he'll probably be taking Nicole.
• I think I'd rather the latter -- Paul and Nicole.
• With James in there, the end game is too predictable. He would win second.
• Another interesting thing to note is that they were talking hamsters of the season. Both Nicole and PAUL commented on Bridgette's potty mouth!
• Now, Nicole has a case. She generally isn't cussing all over the place.
• Paul, on the other hand, can't say a sentence without using profanity.
• Not much exciting to report on.
• Jackie out. 

Sleepy Jamesy

Fashion police! I think there's a crime here.

Both of them will take me!

Guffawing once again

Let it end already!!! The madness!