here we go again...

it's soon to be my most wonderful time of the year...



that's right everybody, my all-time favorite show is coming back again (but not for another month!!).

let me just go on record now with my very early prediction of this cycle's winner:



without much to go on at this point, i am picking nicole to win based solely on the fact that she is from Grand Forks, North Dakota. go home state! oh, and her favorite food is shrimp!! this is going to be so awesome.

there's even some footage of what i think is the NDSU dorms or something on her little video.

boy, North Dakota seems to have a strangle-hold this show. this is the second time that a girl from the Peace Garden State has made it on. that's some incredibly high per-capita percentage.

in case you forget, this girl from my home town was on season...sorry, "cycle" three. ha, i just realized that her name is nicole, too. AND her favorite food is shrimp! well, shrimp scampi, but that counts.

are they the same person? these odds are beginning to make me dizzy.

i was initially going to go with Kyle as the winner based on the fact that she is the manager of a Dairy Queen in Wisconsin, but her video was so impossibly annoying ("i just love the beach!") that she had to be cut.

there's also a minneapolis girl, but she has a bad walk and a six pack stomach.

oh, ANTM...how i missed thee.