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nap time, originally uploaded by mrwilloby.

I never would have expected myself to what I did in the wee hours of the morning today. I stood(slept) in line for American Idol auditions. It wasn’t for myself; I’m not going to go try to sing for anyone, much less sign my life away on one of their release forms, but my friend Gina is excitedly participating.

I agreed to go with her a couple of weeks ago because she couldn’t find anyone else to go. I couldn’t believe it and it sounded like it’d be an adventure.

There turned out to be far fewer interesting people there than I thought there would be. I didn’t find that out until the sun came up though. We arrived just after 3 a.m. and I think I was asleep on the ground by 3:45 with no regard for the people who were not sleeping and talking and singing and being obnoxious all night long. Poor Gina couldn’t fall asleep because she was excited and also because of the loud people around us.

When I woke up it was light out. Things were supposed to start happening around 8. I held the place in line while Gina went and put some things in the car and did her makeup and hair. This was when I started observing that there were just a whole bunch of ugly people.

The ugly people came from all over too! The people behind us were from Hawaii, and I saw signs people were holding that said they were from Minnesota. This is kind of crazy. I guess it’s a big deal to lots of people. Everyone is wanting to get on the news because Channel 2 is there. The American Idol people were making the crowd scream and yell for their cameras too.

We eventually got inside and got wristbands and tickets for assigned seats. That was followed by a quick logistics talk about tomorrow and some Q&A. We were free to go by about 10 o’clock.

Tomorrow we have to be outside the Cow Palace at 5 in the morning. I think it won’t take too long. We are fairly close to the beginning of the line on the inside. Gina will go up and get to sing for about 10-30 seconds in front of a producer and they will either tell her to go home or tell her she is coming back Friday or Saturday. Should be fun.

I slept all afternoon.

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my view, originally uploaded by mrwilloby.