David's Ramblings

[David Lane]

Hello my people! So, this AS game has really started out with a bang. I was expecting the nomination votes to be all over the place, since there’s so many people, but I wasn’t too nervous about being nominated. I was probably like 80-20 on that nervous feeling. So waking up and seeing my picture in the results thread woke me riiiiight the fuck up. As the people I’ve talked to the least, if I had to guess, I’d say Kevin and Frank both gave me 2 points. I really have no idea though, since International round in S2 taught me not to make assumptions about an anonymous vote. Thankfully, Drew’s got my back though. Clearly I was right to pick him as one of the people I was excited to play with . Him not saving Dom should help stop any S1&S2 alliance (Brolliance 2.0) rumors, but it won’t. People that are already buying into the Brollliance 2.0 idea will see what they want to see, and focus just on Drew saving me.

I’m been forming some strong relationships this week and hope to be able to use those in the coming rounds to possibly form a group alliance. Might be too many people for a successful big alliance though, so I’m not set on that idea. As long as my individual relationships remain strong enough to keep me safe, I’m good. The person I get along with best right now and hope to work closely with is Sam. We have hilarious conversations about smoking weed and other delinquent activities. I think we have an unofficial alliance since we talk about working together and such. After Sam, James is probably my main dude. I’m trying to not just blindly be loyal to him just based on the fact that he was so loyal during S2, though. After those 2, in terms of trust, there’s a large gap and most of the other houseguests are interchangeable. Towards the top of the list (in no order) are Shane, Roddy, Ed, Talla, Dixie, and Andrew (clearly my ‘MERICAAA alliance will not be happening lol). Actually Talla probably takes the 3rd spot, while the other 4 switch positions, based on how I’m feeling at a given moment. Helen and I bonded over working with children with Autism and I really like her. Once I get to know her better, I think we could possibly work well together. As I mentioned in the pregame questions, I really like Kristen. However, I’m starting to get the impression that feeling is not mutual haha. I’m going to continue trying to get to know her though and not write anything off. Rhian is cool people and we talk a decent amount, but any real trust is still lacking. Same with GM. I haven’t talked much with Dom or Joe, but our past season definitely has them on my radar. Frank, Kevin, Stella, and Ryan I’m all indifferent towards. Ryan was funny the one time we talked, Stella answers me two or three times then just goes ghost and stops answering, Frank stopped responding to me after like 3 back and forths so I just refuse to im him again lol, and I’ve had no interaction with Kevin.

Wow that was really disorganized and probably hard to follow. Sorry..the ADD kids I work with are rubbing off on me!

[Kat]

Jan 13, 2014 22:27:04 GMT -5 David Lane said:

WAAAAAAAIT.....WHY DOES THE FRONT PAGE HAVE A CANADIAN AND AUSTRALIAN FLAG BUT NO AMERICAN ONE?! BIAS!

happy now? haha

[David Lane]

I am ECSTATIC! This is probably equal to how George Washington felt following the American Revolution... Or however your famous people felt .

[David Lane]

So this round is giving me serious flashbacks to round one of S2. I spent the better part of my night campaigning for something that most of these people hadn't even talked to yet. Although, Drew not being around to campaign was better than when Kara was "helping" me campaign to keep her. As you can see, since I voted Drew, the plan fell through anyway, but let me just explain to you how close it got. Just to clarify though, I played 90% of my campaigning off similarly to how I did for Kara. I never really said to most people that I wanted to vote Stella, Ryan, or Joe, just talked about the pros and cons of it.

So immediately post veto I"m thinking to myself, well Drew is obviously going to get evicted now but HE'S BY FAR THE LEAST THREAT OUT OF THE 4! So I decide I'm going to feel around and see who could possibly be swayed. First up, Helen tells me that getting rid of the least threat isn't something that she would want to do either, if we could get the votes. So after Helen leaves I'm talking to James and he's feeling the same way I am about Drew going. We count out some people and decide we'll see what we can do. According to James, Ed was saying he wasn't voting Drew because he saved him from nomination. Great, so we're up to 4 solid votes then. Before I even have a chance to campaign to Talla, she's telling me that it's stupid to vote out Drew. Long story short, Shane and Sam both were on board for voting Stella or Ryan too. So that's SEVEN people who would have done it, but there was no one to get additional votes from. Dom was not feeling it at all when I said maybe Drew staying wouldn't be a bad thing, and James said that Roddy was open to it but backed down in the end.

What the real issue last was, was when Stella imed me saying she was getting nervous because TALLA WAS TELLING HER THAT SOME PEOPLE MIGHT VOTE HER AND NO ONE WAS COMMITTING TO VOTING DREW WITH HER. WHAT THE FUCK?! I'm immediately pissed and think that Talla probably told her *I* specifically was thinking about voting her, in case all of this came back on her and she needed a scape goat. I mean, why else would Stella pick me to say that to? At the same time though, idk if Talla would really throw me under the bus this early. She might not have said anyone specifically was voting Stella. I dunno though, I was just like "uhh what? Talla is a crazy bitch i think because no one has said anything to me besides voting drew.." And Stella's all like "yah she's crazy. That's all everyone has been telling me too". I spent a couple minutes reassuring her, so I'm hoping that will help throw Stella off the trail of my sketchiness.

Either way, Talla just moved from the top of my trustworthiness list all the way to the bottom. Helen got bumped up some serious notches because she seemed genuinely annoyed that we got so close and couldn't get just one or two more votes for Stella or Ryan. Everyone else has remained in basically the same spot. 

[David Lane]

So drew is telling me he 100% can get Dixie's vote right now? It's probably too late to reorganize everyone, but maybe he's not completely screwed...

[David Lane]

So round 1 was definitely not a good one for me. I think I did a good job the first night (Thursday) of covering my bases while still campaigning to vote anyone besides Drew, but not at all during the day on Friday.

Originally it was being discussed to vote Stella or Ryan so I was fine, but when it switched to Joe, I knew I could be in trouble. I wasn't expecting Drew to go as HAM campaigning Friday, or so many people to re-entertain the idea of keeping him. I REALLY didn't want to vote Joe because I had little to no faith initially, but that's just what Drew started pushing for and I was too involved by that point. The people I didn't buy keeping Drew (Dixie, Roddy, Frank) didn't. Dixie and I talked like 15 minutes before the deadline and she said she wasn't keeping him, but I figured she was lying to Drew when he told me that. I never talked to Frank or Roddy myself about it. So, yah, in summation I pretty much made an enemy out of Joe, a huge competitor, for no reason.

It wasn't a total loss of a round though. I made a very good ally in Helen through the whole process. As of right now, she's one the people I think I can trust long term. I also got the chance to speak more with Rhian and we made a social butterflies alliance. Not sure how legit it is on her end, but I'm gonna cautiously roll with it for awhile.

I spent a couple minutes before the challenge looking at the board and trying to commit some things to memory for the HOH. I totally fucked up that early question about how many male houseguests there are because I missed the word male. Sucks because I feel like I was somewhat quick on some other answers and could have potentially eliminated a few people. Well to calm my nerves until results I'm gonna go smoke a bunch of pot!

[David Lane]

Sorry I haven't updated you all on my life, I know you've been missing me . I'll try to when I get home from class, which I'm actually praying will be cancelled cause of the snow!

[David Lane]

Hey hey hey! So by update after my class tonight, I OBVIOUSLY meant I would update you all tomorrow while I was at my internship. I spent all that time in between debating whether to start a new thread or just keep all my DRs here. As you can see, I decided to keep them here and just change my color from round to round! Although, I'll probably come back to green because green>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Anywayyyyys, so the actual game? Well this was a really boring round. When I saw that Dixie won, I felt pretty safe, which she confirmed for me later on that night. When she told me she was going to target Kevin, I was fairly excited. I think Kevin's a cool dude, but 1) He's a competition beast and 2) As he paid close attention while HCing for S2, I don't think he would have genuinely wanted to work with me. Not gonna lie though, I would not have been disappointed if Kevin won veto and Dixie had nominated Joe. We haven't talked since I voted him out (I didn't want to im him right after doing so, and haven't seen him on in the past couple days), so it's pretty safe to say I'll be going up if he wins an HOH. Idk, I'm going to try and talk to him and mend some fences, but I don't see it working and he'll likely target me.

I haven't made any new alliances, but I think I really strengthened my bond with Rhian. If I can truly  trust her long term (still figuring it out), I think she could be a really good ally for me. GM and I have been talking a lot too and I'm trying to get her to trust me. A newer development though, is that I no longer am certain about being able to trust Sam. I'm not writing it off, but it's becoming less and less of a viable option. I've been trying to talk more with the people I've got weaker connections with too. That has been largely unsuccessful though. Stella takes forever to answer me and is totally disengaged from the convo 90% of the time and Frank and I just don't have anything to talk about half the time. Having weak (er) relationships with only two people isn't that bad though, and I'm hoping my good relationship with Roddy would help me out in the event of a Frank HOH. 

Random aside, LOL at me thinking I could actually score a point in that last HOH against these speed demons #suckstosuck lol. Maybe I'll do better at this one...it's a weird feeling to not be totally throwing HOHs btw. 

Okay well I've got a social skills group to run with a bunch of second grade boys now, so I have to cut this short. How ironic is it that today's lesson is about apologizing to our friends when we hurt their feelings? JOE WHERE YOU AT!?

[David Lane]

Hey hey my people. So Kevin left as expected, I was somewhat surprised that he had 4 votes to stay though.

Blaaaaaah at this house divide though. It's not so much that we're divided that I mind, but I would MUUUCH rather be on team 2 #sorrynotsorry team 1. At least we were immune and have a lot of strong people, so maybe we will be again this week. If we lose, I think I'm in the most danger given an HOH win by Estelle or Ryan. I feel more comfortable with Frank because apparently he was telling James last night that he likes talking to him, me, GM, and Andrew the most. I think James, Dom, and Rhian would definitely keep me safe. GM and Andrew are in a "likely to keep me safe" categorization. Idk though cause it's hard to make predictions when it's still so early, but with so few nominees for an HOH to pick from.

I was excited to see Talla win HOH. I figured she would keep the team 2 people that I don't want to see go home safe. Then even better, she nominates the person I want to see go home the most (Joe). Right after nominations, Roddy comes to everyone on our team and offers to throw any upcoming challenges, if we keep him safe. Everyone seemed interested and I was gonna keep him anyway, so I'm obviously down. At this point, I'm 100% safe and feeling good about things, so I figure I'll lay a little low for a day or two.

Obviously Joe kills the competition and wins veto though. So I log in to AIM and find out that everyone on the other team knows about Roddy's offer now (I'm guessing it was GM, Rhian, or Ryan, in that order, who told them). Talla is trying to figure out who to put up to ensure that Roddy is evicted. She asks me who I'd evict in a Kristen/Roddy scenario. I don't really give her a straight answer because I don't want to commit myself to either side yet. The whole time she was saying that she's sure of everyone on her team evicting Roddy besides Shane, so I guess someone else must have eventually pointed out that she should put him up then, or she figured it out on her own. So now Roddy will definitely be going, but that's okay because he's clearly very well connected within the game anyway.

So now that's almost time to crown a new HOH again, I'm feeling pretty on edge. Time to start smoking my nerves away! Just kidding though because I actually have insane amounts of homework to do #lame.

PS- no new colors cause I'm on my phone and don't know how to do that shit here.

[David Lane]

Don't mind me just checking out this 10 second delay dealio and checking how accurate my watch is

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Okay I'll be back in a few minutes to do horribly on this challenge ...i'm trying to be one of the last on my team so it won't count haha