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ERIK REICHENBACH - Rookie

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puddin:
He's cute, I'm going to be loving head of hair.

RealityFreakWill:
Erik's myspace link:

http://www.myspace.com/thats_some_bobo_ass_****

RealityFreakWill:
Erik posted on his myspace blog:

So I went away to compete in Survivor this fall (October-December) and had to get a bunch of incompletes in all my classes,.. one of them being a research and composition writing class. To make a long story short me and teacher agreed I could make up the class by writing a report based on fieldwork experience: basically writing a research paper where the research is based on firsthand experience rather then outside text sources and internet pages.

Since I am bound contractually by CBS not to disclose any information concerning the Survivor experience (an extremely interesting topic in my opinion), I decided on another equally interesting topic.

I am to record my experiences after the show, in terms of this mild piece of celebrity that arrives with appearing on national television. At first I didn't think it would go beyond my close family, friends, and die-hard survivor fans. Although the show hasn't even aired yet, I can see it's much bigger then that.

Some of the first congrats came from my hometown papers; the Livingston County Press posted my giant face on the front page, and the Ann Arbor News featured a front page article as well. After these media outlets came random people asking me about the show in person, total strangers approached me and asked me about the experience, one even nicknamed me "Hollywood". I never even went to Hollywood!

Early on I was aware of a website called "SurvivorSucks". Despite the name, the site is a massive spoiler and fan site devoted to both making fun of the contestants on the show and dishing the dirt on rumors of the upcoming season. To give you a good idea of what can be expected on the site, I have so far been called a homosexual, symptomatic of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, a butterface, ugly, fugly, and a handful of other derogatory statements despite ever meeting any of the people posting. I should be grateful; however, as other castaways are ridiculed and mocked much worse then myself.

Despite "Sucks" attitude, I understood this kinda crap was going to happen by going on the show. If I didn't want to be judged I wouldn't have taken up the challenge,.. I'm aware they have a camera on you 24/7 and they're going to show a bad side of you at one point or another. I see "Sucks" as the harshest of the harsh in terms of people casting judgment on you, so it can only go up from there. Everyone else in my life has been incredibly supportive, and their opinion matters more to me then an internet forum devoted to watching television.

No offense to "sucks",.. they're all ****ing funny.

A lot of people are really scared of being depicted in a bad light, which I think is ridiculous. We're all human and we all make mistakes and look ugly at some point or another,.. some more then most.
I'm gonna keep going with this and see where it gets me. I can only hope for the best.

RealityFreakWill:

RealityFreakWill:
Erik's latest myspace blog he posted today:

Alright, things are starting to heat up. It's a little over one week away from the Micronesia premier and I'm starting to feel the effects taking place.

While running yesterday along the far-side of campus a driver yelled from his car,"SURVIVOR!" and sped off before I could figure out who it was. I'm not sure if they were serious or joking, but I decided not to chase them down to find out. At the local dining commons on campus (DC1) I frequently have people giving me strange looks, or whole tables pointing me out as I walk by to get some food. At this point I'm not sure how many people on campus know or stay up with the show, they could just be easily pointing at me and saying,"Holy **** look at that ball of gigantic hair" or,"Nice shorts, wtf is wrong with that guy?" The same kid who called me "Hollywood" before somehow always finds me on the way out and let's me go with his now standard,"Seeya Hollywood." Who is this guy?

I'm somewhat happy to say I have my first groupie. Starting sometime last week on Facebook a girl named "Lili" has been messaging me almost daily wanting to get into my pants and dirty-talking me. She lives about a stones-throw away in Quebec, Canada, but I really am not down for the whole internet hook-up scene. I like to meet a person face to face and get to know them before we start cyber-sexing eachother up. For all I know it could be a newspaper tabloid hiding behind a fictional girl's profile.

So far things are looking up.

I've felt some negative things from the fame as well. I'm not at liberty to say much, but I've had some problems at school regarding "false information" when I dropped out of school in the Fall to participate on the show. I knew when I made the desicion to go on the show I would run into some academic and athletic difficulties, so I'm not to shocked or upset over it. Just one more thing to deal with.

On another note, one of the most fun things to watch is the spoiler forums. Before I applied for the show I went on a lot of fan forums myself, and tried to predict how the seasons would play out. Now, being on the inside, its very fun to watch the forums try and put the pieces together from the season. I feel a bit like God watching his children discover things for the first time and make mistakes for the first time.

It makes me laugh.

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