By: Kimba
Sunday morning, and this time I agree with the HGs: 9:30am is
too early to be woken up! And yet that is exactly when Wake-Up Call #1 is
issued. Jun, as usual, is the first and only one to heed the call, and as she
moves about getting new batteries and brushing her teeth, BB issues Wake-Up Call
#2. This time, the tone used is less cordial, but still something definitely
short of terse, and yet their patience and kindness is not rewarded. Even when
they tell the HGs to keep the bedroom lights on, the HGs only comply to then
pull their blankets over their heads.
Slowly, reluctantly, the HGs make
their way out of their bedrooms. Perhaps it is the smoky smell of bacon Jun is
making for breakfast that lures their lazy bums from bed. Jee comments while
watching Jun sauté onions that he has been having nightmares; Jun tells him it
is because he misses home, but Jee only grunts and walks away. As Jun adds what
appears to be parsley and egg whites to her onions, Robert heads outside to tend
to the pool (I miss Jack!!!). Alie and Erika take their time moving from bed to
bathroom to kitchen, but the egg white omelet's stuffed with turkey, mozzarella
and salsa Jun has prepared are a welcoming start to their day (or stomachs, at
least). Alison professes not to have slept well last night as yesterday was
Donnie’s first football game of the season; she is afraid that he and his
friends went out and “got retarded and did whatever” after the game. Jun passes
on the eggs and picks through the fruit to make herself a salad for
breakfast—but before you think she’s learned some healthy habits, it might be
worth notice to see her squirt a heaping helping of ReadyWhip on top of her
carefully selected blueberries. When Alie comments that Jee has not been eating
very much lately, a caring and generous Jun remarks in a mocking tone, he’s “too
depresssssssed.”
At eleven o’clock, BB tells the HGs that there is one
hour left until nominations. During the ensuing time, the Stooges talk about the
women and their newfound “alliance.” Jee believes Jun who has told him it is not
really an alliance so much as strategy for the current week. Robert only shrugs
and says that regardless of what it is called, his and Jee’s chances for
surviving are much worse than the women’s (though he may have called them
whores, sluts or bitches since all those words are synonymous with “woman” for
the Rat). The Stooges wonder why BB didn’t get a “hotter pageant girl” than
Alie; Jee remarks that perhaps hotter ones wouldn’t have been willing to give up
the pageant world the way Alie has (since she can’t go back after having done
what she has done in the house). Jun comments that Alie has a personality that
people can love to hate. She then wonders if people see her that way, too, and
concludes that there must be some viewers who hate her.
Talk then turns
to auditions and how Jun was called almost immediately after sending in her tape
(Jee surmises that it must have been “awesome”). They assume a *****-load of
actors applied for the show, and then Jee and Robert wonder if people who
applied are pissed that the exes got on the show without having to submit
applications and tapes. Jun tells the others about how someone had made a
website about applying for BB and wanted to be on it obsessively: “This is,
like, some people’s lives,” she says, and then remarks, “What a loser.”
At half past noon, nominations get underway. There is the standard FOTH,
and when the feeds return, we learn soon enough that Alie and Jee are nominated.
A couple people ask if Jee is okay, and he shrugs it off; apparently, as he
says, he knew that he was going to be nominated, but he didn’t know that Alie
would be, too. The HGs fall to eating and card-playing and there is very little
chat. Jee does remark to Robert that Jun made a good move by nominating Alie:
now Jun can ensure that Alie only uses the veto on herself. He also tells Robert
that he will likely take Alie’s place, and Robert agrees. The women, meanwhile,
as soon as they get alone, giggle over how they’ve “outsmarted” the boys. “Don’t
be ***** with the chicks in this house,” Jun jokes. “You guys got rid of the
useless ones.” (Interesting that is, indeed: The final three women, Alison,
Erika and Jun, ~are~ noticeably smarter and more competent than the first three
evicted [Amanda, Dana and Michelle], while the not-so-bright guys tend to be the
last ones left in the house. Hmmm.) “So much for the Dream Team.” Erika does a
happy dance, and Jun wonders if Jee knows he is going to be evicted this week.
Alie also tells the women that Jee really thinks he is going to stay
this week—or at least before nominations, he really held out hope that Alie
would use the veto on him. He also apparently said that “the producers wouldn’t
let the girls win like that.” Oh Jee, Jee, Jee. Too much time with the Ratbert!
The three women also remark over how stunned Robert looked when his key was
pulled from the nomination box.
The afternoon subsides around this point
into a general laze-about and idle talk kind of day. Alie kisses a picture of
Donnie in her locket and singsongs to him in a baby voice that she can’t wait to
be married to him and have his babies one day (*gag*). Alie admits to Robert
that she knew she was going to be nominated. Jun wonders if Dana and Justin have
been ***** all night, every night, and Alie retorts, “He can’t go all night.”
Alie and Erika lie outside catching some rays in black bikinis while Jun,
inside, wonders if she should have something to eat again. Robert spends some
alone time on his bed re-reading the letter he got from his daughter. Jun reads
the BB manual so she won’t “go dumb.” Jee, despite knowing he will have to work
full time and go to school full time not long after he gets out, longs to go
home; he doesn’t even care about the sequestration house, he says.
More
chatter and happenings: When the HGs revisit Jack’s personality in the house and
someone reminds everyone of a comment Jack made about Jun’s glow-in-the-dark
pajama pants (that they “lead the way”), Alie remarks: “If my father ever said
that to someone as young as we are or younger than him, I would freakin’
clothesline him. I don’t care if he is my dad, that’s gross.” While everyone
lazes about in boredom, Jee sings, “It’s so boring in here,” and then adds,
“Someone shoot me in the face.” Outside, Robert accidentally pops the purple
inner tube and starts calling frantically for Jee. When Jee emerges from the
house and Robert tells him to go to the DR and ask for either a patch kit for
the tube or another inner tube altogether, Jee angrily replies that Robert
should get out of the “***** pool” and do it himself. Jun later gives Jee a
haircut, but this exciting event is interrupted by a FOTH when two water
balloons are thrown over the BY wall and the HGs eagerly exclaim over how “cool”
it is. Alie even wishes that they had been “egged,” because, you know, that
would have been, like, really cool!
Alison and Erika head off for naps
(that momentary excitement must have gotten to them). Jee complains that Jun cut
his hair too short, but she tells him not to worry, that it will grow out by
Wednesday. And so the evening rolls around in a rather tiring, unfashionable
way. The HGs play a little basketball, slurp a little bisque that Jun made,
complain a little (or a lot) over how bored they are, and kill a little group of
ants on the patio making its way into the kitchen. Chatter, chatter, ab work,
and chatter. Alison remarks to Jun as she did on the previous night during abs
that no one can win against Erika—she has played the game fairly, sticking with
one alliance. As such, they should get rid of her next week, and Jun agrees.
Alie also thinks that Erika may have an alliance with Robert to go with him to
the end, and she and Jun should beware. Erika, meanwhile, is hanging out with
Robert discussing the improvisations from the day before. Robert remarks, “That
is one of the days I won’t forget for the rest of my life. That was one of the
funniest times I’ve ever had. Oh my God, who’s not going to laugh about that?
America’s gotta like that!”
At eleven at night, Alison, Erika, Jee and
Jun decide to play a drinking game while Robert watches on from the hot tub.
Wine is involved, and Jun gets more than a little hammered. From her comments,
too, as they all tend to a rather raunchy and X-rated slant, it’s apparent that
she’s getting a little bit, uh, randy, too. If our suppositions weren’t made
secure enough by her vulgar talk, they’re made flagrantly obvious when she
begins to, uh, “hump” the air. Soon the tipsy folk head inside to dive into the
room of balls, while Robert quietly heads over to the hammock and relax. Even
outside, however, he can’t ignore the ruckus that is coming from inside: the HGs
have decided to create a beat by stomping and clapping, and as FuggyBootnling
remarks, “They got some degree of syncopation going on.” Their antics collapse
into chat and teasing, and the three women have a grand time bugging Jee. He
wants to know if he is going, but they skirt about the issue until Alie
basically admits it. Jun jokes that Jee never liked to “eat out” his women, to
which Alie interjects, “Justin was a very giving boyfriend!” Jun admits during
this late night chatter that her dress size for the VMAs was an 8, while she had
come into the house as a 4.
It’s not long after one in the morning that
the HGs head to bed. Jun and Robert talk a bit longer into the night about Jee
and his family and how they coped with Jee’s father’s death. Apparently his
father had been told by a doctor that he may have cancer, but after visiting a
fortune teller who told them he was fine, they ignored it until it was too late.
By the time he was diagnosed, he was given six months to live, but only lived
four. Jun also tries to explain to Robert that Jee may continue to smoke, even
after watching his father die of lung cancer, because he wants to “beat it” the
way it beat his father.
And so ends Day 58 for the HGs. Mostly
uneventful, mostly tiring, but there you have it.
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