OMG, so sleepy. What a 4-day stretch: packing, graduating, moving & unpacking, all in 96 hours. And tomorrow, to L.A.! But now, to bed.

This is it! The American Idol finale is about to wrap up. Results will be announced tomorrow night. Who will win? Jordin or Blake? And more importantly: Mark, Jay, Marty or me? :) Contestants in the BrendanLoy.com Idol pool, please e-mail your picks to laurenelizabeth [at] alumni.nd.edu by 9:00 PM EST Wednesday!!

Also, looking back to my first post about the Idol pool, when I asked after the Top 24 show who people thought would win… nobody picked Jordin (only Becky had her in the Top 3), but one contestant — Derek Walden — picked Blake, so he is the only person who still has a chance to win that portion of the contest. (But Becky gets credit for having both Blake and Jordin in the Top 3, though she — like so many others back then — though LaKisha would win.)

Current standings of the week-by-week contest after the jump.

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Mr. and Mrs. Loy finally got to meet Logan!

Apparently the Drudge Report has been taken over by comic-book writers:

Heh.

(The referenced story, of course, is the McCain-Romney war of words over immigration. Not to be confused with the McCain-Cornyn war of words over immigration.)

The Penske is unpacked.

My commencement photos are online!

Seventy-six of ‘em in all, which is a bit less than half of the total. Some were taken with my camera, some with Becky’s mom’s camera. Enjoy!

A few highlights are after the jump, starting with some bulletin-board material for the Message Board That Must Not Be Named:

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