cooking in chi-town!

so i guess i'm giving ya pictures of them. i've decided that this season is really ugly. all of them.
jennifer. ugly. kind of boring. most of these people have not big personalities.
zoi. kind of serial killer looking...
apparently, jen and zoi, are a couple! everyone meets at this pizza place in chicago. which i guess is perfect.... and they're sitting with each other. then they have an "announcement". they 'know' each other back in SanFran and they are a couple. they just wanted to get it out. good for them. did they know that they both were going to top chef, or was it like, "um.. honey, i'm goin for business for like 3-30 days..." and the other was like "oh, me too.... well, bye." that would be wierd... i think it's gonna be harder for them because they are a couple, but at least they already have a friend!
erik. pretty dang ugly. he has scars on his bald head.
dale. kinda ugly. he reminds me of hung, and dale, from last season mixed. strange. he seems kind of mean though, just like old hung.
antonia. besides the weird name... just a bit ugly. she doesn't really get a lot of air time though, so i don't really know her. not that she's been kicked off, but they just don't show her.
andrew. oh my gosh he has like ADD, ADHD, and OCD all rolled into one. and not the OCD that i have, where i'm just obsessed with things, it's like the twitchy kind where he has to do things.... like washing your hands five times after every meal. i just made up his diseases, i don't know if he really has them. but he's crazy! and he drops the effer every like 2 seconds. that'll get annoying quick...
nimma. strange name. she didn't socialize on the first night there. loser. you have to make some "friends" here before you can make enemies...
i have no idea who this girl is... nikki! i had to check online... obviously not a big personality.
mark. he's from austrailia, mate! an' 'e says mate li' six bloo'y times a se'ntence! i don't know if austrailians say "bloody" but what ever. he's kinda funny though, also ugly.
manuel. ugliest in the bunch! manno. why do they let ugly people on these shows!? don't they know that people want to see good looking chefs, even if they suck?'
ryan. there we go, he's a bit better looking. i don't know that he cooks well, too, so maybe we're in luck... that sentence made absolutely NO sence to me...
lisa. ugly. she just may be the dark horse, though, cuz she hasn't done anything great yet, but she doesn't suck.
valerie. kinda spaztic in that picture. she's not a great either, but we'll see...
stephanie. her hand had the shakes for that first elimination challenge. i was afraid sauce would be all over the place.
spike. he's deffinately the charmer this season. maybe not such a hard worker. what's with the constant wearing of the hats?
richard. he's one of those freaky food scientists, so he uses all these chemicals and such. strange, but okay.
so i don't really know how i'm going to do this... um...
quickfire
make a deep dish pizza. some people didn't know how. i think nikki was the one who had like 75% crust, and no sauce cuz she used mushrooms or something. it looked okay. some were good, some were not.
they went to the guest judge's house with their pizzas. i don't know who it was... but apparently it was their house, so they got to stay there. there were 8 winners and 8 losers of the quickfire challenge.
elimination challenge
the 8 winners from last night got to pick one of the losers to have a cook-off with. but the loser got to pick which dish. there was a soufle. obviously, that went last, for poor erik and... someone.
winner
stephanie. she made "duck a'la orange" or something crazy like that. i'm pretty sure that's what she made.
packing their knives
nimma. good ridance. she was boring. and she made some SALTY shrimp.

so next time, i hope, it won't be so picture-y and the challenges will

be a bit more in-depth, once i really find out what i'm doing here...

umm... i have no "good-bye" catchfrase for top chef yet.. help me think of some!