The calm....after the storm?

[Gary Hogeboom]

Okay, so shit went DOWN at last tribal council. And I still don't really know what exactly went down, and who's telling the truth and who's lying. What I do know is that Sherea PMed me after I had voted that Eliza was trying to get me voted out, and she and Dan were voting for her and they wanted me to do the same. However, because of my computer being stupid, I wasn't able to access the internet until the next day, after tribal council. So the vote was 3 to 2, with Dan leaving.

Would I have changed my vote if I had logged on? Yeah, I definately would have. Because as much as I didn't trust Dan, I trusted that he wouldn't target me. But since Eliza is apparently trying to target me I have gotten myself into a very dangerous situation. Soooooo my goal is to WIN WIN WIN until there's a tribal switch and I get myself away from that girl.

But, sigh, we still have Susie on our team dragging us down (which by the way I think it's kind of hillarious that Susie got ZERO votes at the last tc after being on the chopping block for, like since the beginning of the game). Anyway, I think it may be hard to win challenges with her still on the tribe.

If we do end up losing and going to tribal council, I think the best option is to vote for Susie and convince Sherea to do the same. Then the worst thing that could happen would be a tie-breaker between myself or Sherea and Susie...which I'm pretty sure we could win.

One thing I DO have going for me is that I think that Eliza thinks that Susie voted against her at the last tribal council. So if she's telling me the truth at least I know that Susie and Eliza wouldn't be looking to allign with eachother anytime soon, ya know? Meh, we'll see what this next challenge brings and go from there, I guess.

[Gary Hogeboom]

Sigh....so, we lost the challenge again. It was a posting challenge that involved group participation, and Susie gave up on her leg that she was doing with me...and Sherea is out of town so she wouldn't have been able to do her leg until the next leg anyway, so in short, we're heading to tribal council. And to top it off, we also have Miraflores being able to watch our tribal council, since they came in first place in the challenge.

Hmmm. As far as the vote's going to go, both Eliza and Sherea have told me that they were going to be voting for Susie. So that's who I'm going to be voting for, and I hope it pans out that way. I'm really pissed at Susie about this challenge, even though we would have lost anyway if she hadn't have given up. I had a convo with her during the challenge (that I forgot to save, ugh) where she apparently thought we only had to post FOUR TIMES for our leg...and once she realized that we had to go to two hundred she stopped talking to me. So really, whatever. Hopefully it's adios Susie this tribal council unless something happens.

Sigh, I also think that by losing this challenge we've created an underdog situation for ourselves. I have a feeling that San Antonio is going to be split up after this tribal council, and I don't really feel in good shape heading to EITHER tribe. I think I would be a bigger tribe in either situation. For the tribal council question the host asked me which tribe I would rather be on if San Antonio got split up. Ha, I lied and said Miraflores since they were the ones watching, but really I'd rather be on Monterrico. I feel like I'd have more friends over there in that situation. Miraflores seems like a pretty tight clique right now, as evidenced by their voting out Ace as soon as they joined his tribe. But also...from listening to Sherea, Monterrico seems kind of cliquey as well. Ugh, and honestly I don't feel like I'd be fitting in on either tribe that well since I've shown I'm really strong in the challenges.

Also, another thing that's working against me is that I'm going to be going out of town for Thanksgiving, and I won't be back until Saturday. And even when I come back I'll be working all Saturday as well as a party thing I have to go to on Sunday...so I may not be able to use my socialness to save myself if there is a tribal switch. So.....I think I'm up shit creek, and I feel really sad about it since I feel like I've put a lot into this game. Ugh.

Anyway, back to the present. I'm pretty sure Susie is going at this tribal council, so let's hope I'm right!