I think the Survivors should take this blog with a grain of salt.
We *know* you're reading this, we're not going to tell any secrets here.
We keep our real thoughts, the harsher *and* the more complimentary, to our private YahooGroups email.
So ya'll shouldn't take this so seriously.
Also, I don't really care if they like the IC's or not, that's part of the game.
Personally, I hated the IC "If you were a cereal box, which cereal box would you be..."
But I was a good Survivor and dealt with it.
On the other hand, I remember how much pressure I was under to write well and often,
And how paranoia, hurt feelings, crabbiness and accusations of alliances were part of the whole thing.
Survivors, just try to have fun and enjoy it.
It'll be over soon enough and then you'll be in our place.

Oh. And I cant access yahoo groups. I cant even read the messages, when I do try, it says this: "Your browser is not accepting our cookies. To view this page, please set your browser preferences to accept cookies (code 5)." But it accepts cookies from everything else... so what the..?

I recieved an email from Mychai this morning. It said: "I don't mean to overly criticize...And I realize you have a life outside of D'survivor.
But don't you think it to be fair for us to criticize you (like I did on my IC)? Especially when you make a big post criticizing me about criticizing you... Then you wait until the last minute to vote, when many of us are waiting for the results. My IC pretty much stands as yet unchallenged.
JP"
Hmmm. I wrote back:
"Hi. Thanks for recognizing the fact that I do have a life outside of diary survivor. In fact, its a very busy life. Im a senior in HS this year, even though I should only be a junior. As you may imagine, I am a very busy girl. I think its fine for you to criticize me (us) as I can criticize you (all). I have to say, this contest is a lot funner when youre a judge! Im not stressing about getting kicked off, or worrying about doing an IC in time. So Im having some fun with this. If you took my "You bastard!" post offensivley, then you took it wrong. Note the "all in good fun" part.
I read all the ICs on Wednesday or Thursday. I didnt get a chance to vote immediatley after because I had plans and was running late as it was. Friday I came home for barely enough time to check my email and eat something, and then I was out the door again. I didnt get home till 10, and when I tried to vote.. it didnt work. Why do you blame me for that? I do not run yahoo groups. It is not my fault. Meg emailed me and asked me if she needed to place my vote for me, but it was too late. It wouldnt have mattered, because I would have voted for Throcky. Lampshade would have won anyways. But you know, there are more than 8 judges. So others werent able to vote, either. Sorry that you had to wait so patiently for the results. But quit your bitchin: you got one vote for that IC that mustve taken five minutes to write.
And Im only here to have some fun. Major seriousness with not be stood for. Thanks, have a great day!
love Heather"

Okie, can I just say that I found the ICs for this week very disappointing? The topic was GREAT, but...I dunno, the ICs were lacking as a whole. Maybe I am just in a bitchy mood or something.

Meg, I am totally with you about Godfather Rob! I love that kid and I don't know why! I mean he is a total dick! When he moved over to Rotu some of the stuff he said about the gay guy was just horrible! But still I like him! I mean he is damn sneaky! ANd he has my brother's hair!

Lampshade's IC was very cute. I can just picture her crawling along the grass trying to sneak up on people. Cracked me up.

Ladeeleroy's was also fabulous as usual. That picture made me choke on my string cheese :)

Racer's also made me laugh. :)

I would comment on the others but I can't remember a damn thing about most of em anymore :/ Bad memory.

Ah ha! You bastard! *All in good fun, of course*

Meg! I can't vote! This sucks. Maybe its my computer being all stupid, or maybe its yahoo groups. But either way its saying some shit about my cookies. Ah. I hate computers!!! I guess Im giving up. Sorry. :(

I have to admit, I did grin at Mychai's IC entry - and of course I blushed. Sexy, me? Nah! But then I was also honored while reading Throcky's 2nd IC entry because of her creative casting. I wish I looked like Eliza Dushku!

Now, judges - go vote, or else. Or else what? I'll kidnap you and force you to watch Survivor reruns for 72 hours straight. And I will sigh every time Jeff Probst appears on screen, as I always do. Does that motivate you to get your IC votes in or what?

Oh, and Meg - you are SOOO sexy.

Haha. This is getting fun. Today K-lo and I had a guestbook war. Such fun. She lost, of course (haha).

Yes, the contestants know that the judges helped choose them. It’s on the judges page and I even addressed it in an email. I also asked if they’d like to help judge Diary Survivor 4, if we get that far. Then we can have all of the judges present now, plus any of the DS3 contestants who take my invite. Won’t that be fun? With the exception of my topic (traditional IC#1) I think the topics you’ve sent in are creative, amusing and very well thought out. Damn, I sound like a teacher! The next one is sure to please – you know the topic that many of you enjoyed from DS2?

Are you saying I’m not sexy? Well, Survivor will be on in 20 minutes. I have to turn the phone off and watch in silence. Hopefully the “Robfather” will not be voted off.

Keep posting!

Agreed. I mean, what *was* that? "Oh, I like this challenge. Instead of actually doing it, though, I think I'll talk about how inferior the other challenges were..." Huh? Personally, my criteria for the IC's is: WHO ACTUALLY DOES THEM? Only a few people have been bothering to try a little something called CREATIVE WRITING. But at least the contestants seem to be reading each other's journals. I guess that's the point in the end. (I also had to smirk at the comment that Meg is responsible for everyone being able to play. Yes, she's the mastermind and she does all the work getting this together. However...do they NOT realize that we decided who was picked and who wasn't? I still think they haven't figure that out.) Hey, this is fun! We can paint targets on each other's butts next!

"And this is such a better immunity challenge than the judges have cooked up in the past. I mean, really... Winning an Oscar? I could care less if I won a bag of stanky horse manure. And what's the use? I'm one of the few people who didn't repeatedly use the word 'fuck,' and I was the only one who wrote about something besides the Oscar everyone else wrote about. And all I got was one vote. So much for being original." That is a quote from Mychai in the latest IC. I can't say Ive come up with any of the IC ideas. But
I absolutely love this weeks IC. Saying the wrong thing could really piss another contestant off! Yes. And thats what its all about. (For me, at least, I cant speak for the others... Im still waiting to get some freakin hate mail) Later on Mychai said he'd vote the entire panel of judges off. A little bitter about not getting immunity I suppose? So then I thought of voting for Mychai in this IC. But I figured that that was the plan! Thought he'd get some votes that way. So its not happening. Besides, I have standards when voting for the IC its called: I pick the best. And the best usually makes me laugh, and think, and like it, goddamnit. So all the contestants need to stop their bitching. If you want immunity.. put some work into it!

I'd answer that question, but I'm lousy with names. I know that I don't like that one guy, and I think that if the one tribe loses, they'll vote out that chick. But if the other one loses, they'll probably kick out that guy with the thing that does that annoying thing.

By the way, I absolutely ADORE the IC this week. I hope the contestants don't go all lame on us. But they probably will. Babies.

Yippee. I'm in...although I had to make a new username to join. So strange.

Anyway, I'm having a lot of fun with this. Until today when I read that one of the contestants tripped Donnie Osmond when he was in the fourth grade! (the contestent was in 4th grade, not Donnie). Hmmm. I do have my loyalties...

Question - regarding blogger, isn't there a way to create a form so people can leave comments regarding our posts? Or am I thinking of another site?

Spoiler alert if you haven't seen last week's Survivor yet:
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Is it too much to ask that Jeff Probst remove his shirt for just ONE challenge or Tribal Council?
I hate to say this, but Rob is my current favorite. He reminds me of this guy I went to High School with, whose name is also Rob. Similar accent and gold medallion necklace. Except my buddy Rob liked to jump out of trees when he was drunk and pretend he needed CPR. "Meg!" Someone would yell. "You know CPR, please help Rob!" I'm not that stupid - even after 7 beers.
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If you watch Survivor - who do you think will be voted off this week? My opinion - if Rotu loses the IC, Rob will convince one of John's 'followers' to vote against him - resulting in John getting the boot. (Or so I hope) If Rotu wins the IC - then Gina is a goner, although I do like her I don't think Pappy & Neleh will vote against Kathy. Although, they will be freaked when they see that Gabe was voted off. What does everyone else think?

In DS3 news - I love the IC topic. Now my snuggly judges, send me more. Now! Or bring me Jeff Probst. Or both. Or just come over here and read "The Lorax" to me while I finish my soup.

Okay...how's this:

Last week on Survivor, when they were raiding the camp, was anyone else listening to the music they were playing and singing "they fight, they bite, they bite and fight and bite...bite, bite, bite...fight, fight, fight...The Itchy and Scratchy Show!" ?

Oh fucking hell. Will someone please say something!