Quiet day

Logged in my hours at work doing my entry. Right now I find the repetiton quite comforting and the content is a more natural fit than my 9 years in IRB world. I'm just going to have to embrace that I'm reinventing my life. In a sense I'm too old to be doing this, but I've always consider myself someone who doesn't embrace what is conventional. So I guess I have to live by my principles.

American Idol was intersting tonight. David Cook is the most talented and in a perfect world should win. But this is not a perfect world and Archuleta is still the front runner as he has the most ardent AI voter in his camp, the young girls. And for the first time this season, I really like Syesha Mercado. She's got a future in theater.

And speaking of Idol, I'm reading the biography Played Out by David Richards. It's about Jean Seberg, the actress discovered by director Otto Preminger to play Joan of Arc after a worldwide talent search which culminated in an announcement on Ed Sullivan. In a sense, Jean participated in an American Idol like search with a coronation televised on National TV. St. Joan flopped and Seberg's career floundered for two years until she re emerged as a French film star in Godard's New Wave classic Breathless. Unfortunately she died a suicide in 1979 at the age of 41 after enduring years of mental illness and torment. Very sad story. As the cliche goes, beware of what you wish for, you might get it.