Are you prepared for Council tomorrow in the event that you have to go? Late bus, but I'm glad we don't have to go. I completely missed the challenge because I was on the road and didn't realize the clock on my phone had changed when I crossed over into Nashville so that was awful
But, yes. I am always thinking about potentially having to go to Tribal Council. I don't know if I'm fully prepared because I'm still trying to win back Nate and form a solid alliance with the rest of my tribe. I think CiCi is my closest ally at this point, which is good because I think her bonds are probably stronger with the others. My goal is to target Rebecca first. Apparently Candace has yet to talk to her, so that'd be an easy pick off, if we need to. After that I have no idea. I know Candace and Penner are close, so ideally it would be CiCi, Nate, Cassandra and I voting out one of them two. But I'd rather not think of that. I'd rather keep winning immunities and avoiding those situations for now.
Are you considering the merge as the numbers are dwindling? I've definitely been considering the merge. Nate and I were just talking about it and going over the possibilities of a merge at the Final 11 or a late merge. A late merge might be better for us because we could keep winning challenges and avoiding tribal council, where there's always the risk of going home. But not having merged is always scary because then you're basically blind to what's going on on the other tribe and, honestly, with all the ex-Mykines members on the other tribe, a merge might actually make me feel more safe than I do now.
Do you believe that other players consider you a threat? Are you targeting the "threats" in the game or still focused on challenge performance? One of the first things Cassandra said to my after the tribe swap was that CiCi had told her I was a "challenge beast". I don't know if that stereotype still exists, since I've missed a few, but I do take the challenges very seriously so maybe that's where that stereotype came from. We'll see what happens at the next few challenges. I want to help out and seem like a key player, but I don't want people to think that I have the potential to win every immunity and they should therefore vote me off. I've played ORGs before and not won a single challenge the entire time, but won the whole she-bang in the end. So I don't know if winning challenges really is that good of a thing to do.
If threats are being targeted, do you believe that you are on that list of targets? I don't think I'm on the list as a threat at this point, except maybe for Nate. He probably sees me as a liability, but I hope I convinced him that I really do want to work with him, rather than against him. I think, if anything, I'm seen as a liability for missing a challenge, but I hope I can redeem myself on that front too in case we have to go to tribal council. I don't want to go the way of JP, Mookie and Adam.
