Holy shit its been 4 days since I did a confessional? I will do one in the AM. Work was INSANE this weekend because it was Easter and everyone on the planet decides to eat fish on easter weekend apparantly.
Sorry for the hold up with my posting of the vote. I wanted to use the full 24 hours because I wasn't really around yesterday to talk with many people. I will be posting my vote in like 30 mins. I want to hear back from Candice and Joey before I post my vote.
I won't lie Calum does have some pretty good points about this game starting to drag, but at the same time why would I butcher my own position and the position of those I'm working with just to make things more interesting for the others in the house? I think things seemed boring to him because no one ever really wanted to branch out to him and he didn't make that much of an effort to establish those connections on his own. Everyone else in the game (aside from Greg) has made that kind of effort so I'm not really that sure he has anyone to blame except for himself.
Compare him to Russ for example. Russ could have easily ended up being someone who I didn't give a shit about, but he made the effort to talk to me (and I made that same effort with him). He is someone I am going to work hard to bring further into the game. If I have the chance to throw HoH over to him this round I am going to take that opportunity.
Candice also made a huge effort early on in the game to secure her long term connections. She and I have strong relationship that I don't plan on tuning on until it is absolutely necessary.
Part of it is my fault because I have been feigning being unaware of house dynamics with him in order to conceal the fact that I am attempting to play both sides right now (I feel like people don't really buy what I am selling whenever I say that, but I still gotta send that message as best I can). Recently, Calum never wanted to talk with me unless it was strictly for game purposes. That's fine, I get that, because that's what I would have been doing with him as well... but from my perspective HE was the one who should have been trying to make the effort with ME because I am the one who has secured my position with the rest of the house more successfully. For him to bitch about the game being boring is weird to me because he was one of the hardest people to hold a conversation with in the first place.
Anyways, I am not really that put off by what he posted. He brought up some good points. I do think I am playing a kind of lame game from the outside perspective but I don't want to overplay and put myself in a position where I am going to be actively targeted.
I should probably mention that the video confessional I just posted made it sound like I was being insincere with Greg, and I actually wasn't. Him and I spent a lot of time talking about the possibility of keeping him and he brought up some really good points about how he would be going after Candice and he would remain a larger target than me. And frankly, I really need someone to go after Candice for me. So if he was up against Joey those would be really great points. But he wasn't he was up against Russell who is someone who I didn't want to backstab.
But frankly there was no way, even if I wanted to do it, that it was going to happen. Skye and Boog would have voted Greg out no matter what and Candice was going to break the tie against him. And if it HAD succeeded in flipping things on Russ (somehow against all odds) then I have massively pissed off a juror for essentially no reason. It was a lose-lose situation to keep Greg.
I didn't want to be a dick to him on his way out, so I tried to be as upfront about my reasoning as possible without mentioning my alliance with the girls. Hopefully he has as positive an opinion of me as possible now that he is in jury.