By: Kimba
It’s Friday, Day 60 of the feeds, Day 63 for the HGs, and the
day of the last POV competition—the one that will prove to be most valuable. At
ten to ten, BB issues a wake-up call. The HGs, no better than teenaged kids,
ignore the call, and an unusually impatient BB issues a second call within only
a couple minutes. Intermittent, loud Mexican music is pumped over the speakers,
the lights are turned on, and the HGs crawl out of bed. Erika proves to be
stubborn, however, as she hunkers in bed a few minutes longer than the rest.
Jun makes pancakes for breakfast for her fellow HGs, but opts for fruit
for herself. The HGs order their dinner for the night and decide on Japanese,
though Alie in particular stresses that this must mean more than Sushi. Alie and
Jun discuss dieting (as Jun says, “I am allowed to talk about dieting—I was once
a fat girl”), eating Special K for breakfast, and whether or not Jun “made Jee
fat.” Robert points out that Jee “eats like it is his last meal,” but Jun blames
the “pot.” She states that Jee, when high, would buy a bag of Snickers Bars and
eat the entire thing for a meal. Erika and Robert dig into the pancakes and
turkey bacon that Jun has prepared for them, Alie eats cereal, and Jun eats
fruit. When Jun reaches for a piece of bacon, Alie reminds her that she is only
“allowed” two pieces. We also learn during this breakfast conversation that Jun,
at her highest, was 190 lbs, but when she met Bob, she was 145 lbs.
More
interesting morning conversation as breakfast finishes up and everyone heads
back to bed to nap: Robert is asthmatic, but ever since he visited an
acupuncturist, he hasn’t had to use his “puffer.” Jun and Robert discuss the
possibility of being offered money in the POV competition; Jun asserts that no
matter how bad it seems, they have to take the money (to win the POV; an example
she gives is having all the other HGs sleep on the floor). Jun also tells Robert
that, if Alie wins the POV competition, she will “never believe in God again.”
Erika overhears someone behind the walls have a conversation on a cell phone
(she distinctly hears him say, “I love you”).
From just after eleven
until well after one in the afternoon, the only person actually moving in the
house is Jun who prepares a sandwich for lunch and busies herself in the fridge
(even when not eating, Jun really does have a food obsession). When her fellow
HGs join her, however, the chatter that does form is almost as mind-numbing as
the silence was. Erika wonders if there will indeed be a POV competition today
as there have been no lockdowns. Robert checks with the DR and finds out that,
yes, it will be today—probably tonight. The HGs comment on how hot it is
outside. Jun jokes about how Jee didn’t get anything from home the first time he
was HOH, but did the second time. Erika decides that she needs to wash her hair
as it is getting “greasy.” Erika and Robert mention that Jerri from Survivor:
The Australian Outback used to work with them and was as “horrible and mean” as
she was portrayed on the show.
And so the afternoon goes. The chatter is
as boring as their actions: napping, playing solitaire, lounging outside,
lounging inside, boring, boring, boring, boring. I’m not a miracle-worker,
folks—I can only make this so exciting! Erika and Robert have a tidbit of a
conversation around 3:30pm in which Robert apologizes to Erika for believing
what other HGs told him earlier in the game—that she was saying horrible things
about him, that he was weak and a liar. Erika only nods her head and offers
non-committal murmurs in response. Robert later lies to Alie again when he tells
her that he won’t try for the veto; she thinks this is good strategy since he
would be placing a “target” on his back if he won (having just won the HOH
competition). Robert only replies with a certain amount of exasperation,
“Everybody’s a target!” The HGs notice that a camera in the backyard has moved;
thus they reason that the POV competition will be held outside. Erika, Jun and
Robert discuss all the lies that Alie has told and how Justin was right: she
~is~ a pathological liar and can’t keep her lies straight.
At quarter to
four in the afternoon, Robert gets a surprise from the DR to relate to the other
HGs—it’s time to see America’s Choice for the week! The HGs gather into the
living room and watch: “Which HG would you like to see get a phone call?” Alie
declares immediately that she doesn’t want it, as does Robert, and both
reactions are understandable. Alie will certainly need more than a couple
minutes to explain herself to Donnie, and Robert may have a tough time talking
to his daughter (if there is one good thing I can say about Robert, it is that
he loves his daughter and obviously misses her a great deal). As he says after
they leave the living room and enter the backyard, “I don’t think I can handle
it.” In fact, every HG seems to be both excited about the probability of a phone
call and nervous at the same time. Jun in particular comments that talking with
people from home could “***** up” their game.
Pre-evening happenings:
Erika plucks her eyebrows. Alie curls her hair. Jun remarks that the shower
smells like “piss”; it turns out to be the towel hanging on the door, so Jun
quickly deposits it on the ground (while she is in the shower). Alie and Erika
play cards, while Robert looks on and sniffles. BB announces an outside
lockdown. The HGs pull down the shades, complain about having to be outside in
the heat of a California day, and head outside as told. It lasts no more than
ten minutes, and soon the HGs are inside again, playing cards and looking
dreadfully dull. Jun shouts that she sees a “Ferris wheel” outside, but
immediately she is called to the DR and the feeds go to a brief FOTH. Erika
claims that she likes it “long and hard”—er, that is, card games.
By the
time six rolls around, the HGs are getting more than a little restless. They
expect not only the veto competition tonight, but the results of America’s
Choice. Erika paces around and chants, “Ve-to, ve-to, ve-to!” Robert remarks,
“Let’s get this ***** on!” Jun wonders if they have to wear anything in
particular for the competition. While they wait, they can hear construction
noises coming from the backyard. They discuss the previous year’s veto
competitions. Silence stretches long in between comments. If I have to recount
all their trivial comments here, I might slit my wrists, so suffice it to say
this has to be the most boring day so far in BB history!! I don’t even think
Jamie and the boys from Season One could come close to this.
Nail
polish, Dana-bashing, eye color—thank the Space Muffin above that the food
finally arrives. Jun is by far the most excited about the food, while Alie looks
on and reacts in disgust to anything uncooked (“normal people don’t eat that!”).
There are chop sticks to add to the experience and little balls of Green Tea ice
cream wrapped in rice paper for dessert. As Erika, Jun and Robert dig in, Alie
looks on warily and only tries her food with hesitation. Erika and Robert prod
her to try the Wasabi, and though Jun warns her not to, saying she’ll cry, Alie
stuffs a large amount of it into her mouth and promptly gags (does this woman
not know what horseradish is?). Jun laughs and munches with glee: “Oh God, I’m
so happy right now!!” Alie only picks and offers an occasional “ew” and “people
don’t eat that” comment. After the meal is finished, however, she pats herself
on the back and says that she is proud of herself for trying Sushi. (Yet she
doesn’t try the ovary—“It’s the reproductive system of a ***** fish!” she yelps
as Jun slurps it down.) As for tomorrow, the HGs decide to order a less
adventurous Greek for their dinner.
It’s after seven when the HGs
finally relax from their meal, and while Alie and Erika brush their teeth, Jun
reposes in fulfillment and says that she feels like she is back in New York. Jun
estimates that the entire meal probably cost BB over $300 US, but Alie can’t
believe it (“For this *****?!”). Robert goes to the DR to ask about the
competition, comes out and tells the women that they have to wear their bathing
suits. Each of them falls for it, but he quickly tells them that he is only
joking. As they relax and wait for the competition, Jun begins to tell a
traumatic story about almost drowning as a child, but Alie quickly takes over
the conversation and relates a couple of stories in which she almost drowned (is
there anything that hasn’t happened to this woman?). Finally, as eight o’clock
rolls around, BB announces that the veto competition will be starting within an
hour. They quickly modify this and say that it might be an hour and a half.
The HGs get ready and gather in the living room to wait. Robert is
wearing his new Converse shoes and pink socks that Erika lent to him. Trivial
chatter weaves among the sitting HGs. As BB announces almost an hour and a half
after the first announcement that the competition will now be starting in an
hour, Alison yells, “This is horse-*****!” Well, Alie, at least you don’t have
to listen to the blasted FOTH music as we do—because for the next hour and a
half, that is exactly what we are subjected to.
It’s not until after
eleven at night that the feeds return. The HGs are all inside, some lounging,
some cleaning, some poking around in the SR. We hear Robert comment
sarcastically, “That took four ***** hours to set up?” Jun has “surface wounds”
from the competition. Alie comments that she has “never had to pack,” despite
being nominated twice—and we clench our teeth and furrow our brows and hope to
the Space Muffin that this doesn’t mean she won the POV! Alas, our hoping proves
futile. Alison has won…the ~Diamond~ Power of Veto. Now, what that means, no one
knows. But what we do know is Alison isn’t leaving this week. Gah!
The
medallion that Alison has won is actually a clear plastic medal, unlike the
metal Golden POV. She takes it and hangs it on the memory wall under her picture
and heads to the DR. Erika, quietly in an aside to Jun, apologizes for not
winning the veto. Robert says he wanted to cry when Alie won it, while Jun only
mutters that she doesn’t want to talk about it. Robert, however, is apparently
upset by how the competition played out, because he can’t stop talking about it;
in fact, he says, “They should ***** do it over.” The feeds quickly cut to a
short FOTH. And so it goes for a good fifteen minutes: every time the three of
them bring up how something, we don’t know what, was “unfair,” or how the
competition should have been “restarted,” BB cuts to FOTH.
Alie returns
from the DR, and Jun heads in. Immediately Erika asks the POV winner if she has
to pack. Alie replies, “Of course.” When Erika makes a shocked sound, Alie adds,
“Everyone has to pack. They’ll make you pack, and it’s not my doing.” Alie does
say, however, to both Erika and Robert, that Jun will be the one to go, but
regrets now that she is the one to have to vote someone out—it means one less
vote for her in the end, she says. “I have to be real smart about this *****.”
Erika only asks that if Alison chooses to oust her, that she tell her before
eviction day.
The night quickly winds down after the climax of the POV
competition. The HGs chatter for a short time about the competition, about the
upcoming America’s Choice phone call, about a luxury challenge on the morrow,
etc. At one point, Alie and Jun talk alone and Alie tells her the exact opposite
of what she told Erika—that Erika is her target this week. The two laugh at how
“*****” Erika and Robert are, but as Erika joins the two, they quickly switch
the conversation to making fun of Robert’s poor performance in the competition.
Apparently he came in last.
By one in the morning, the HGs feel the
fatigue of a BB day weigh down upon them. After quickly prepping for sleep, they
all cuddle into bed and settle down for the night. If it’s yet again a restless
night for the house in general, at least we know Alison is sleeping soundly.
Until tomorrow.
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