The Confessions of Candice

[Candice Woodcock]

Alright, so what do I think of my tribe?

It's safe. I don't feel vulnerable at all, and I can't see me going for quite a long time while I'm on it. However, I'm still not entirely thrilled. Immediately upon the tribes forming, possibly even during, Brandon and Mikayla seemed to have planned an alliance between the two of them, Judd, Ibe, and myself. So once I started talking to them, minutes after the tribes were announced, I was already trapped into an alliance.

It's not that I don't want to be in it, but I want my options open. I don't trust either Elyse or Coach, but I still wouldn't want to feel barred from ever considering something with them if I felt it was better for my game. At this point in time right now I feel as if I'm simply just a pawn of Brandon and Mikayla to control the entire game, bringing me to my next point: Mikayla doesn't seem any less shady. Despite her speaking to me as if I'm her #1 since we started checking in, I feel like it's really Brandon. The fact they manufactured the alliance and were talking about the tribe during its formation is more than sketchy. I'm not thrilled just because I don't feel like this is what I want to do, and I'm really bad at making compromises.

[Candice Woodcock]

After speaking more with my tribe, I feel slightly better about it.

For one, Elyse suggested going for either Wanda, Alexis, Jonas or, V, since they are all aligned. Riding with it, Jonas became the popular vote at the moment. Brandon spoke to all of his connections, which he has abound, and turned the vote to Jonas.

I spoke a lot with Elyse, and she's very concerned. Apparently Brandon is being very indirect, and quite obvious that she's on the outside. But with her shady with Brandon, Judd shady with the entire alliance (which I failed to explain, he wasn't happy that he was just brought into an alliance a la me), and me shady with Brandon, I sense maybe a possibility of getting rid of the person I'm most threatened by. It would be quite the interesting feat.

I feel like I sometimes do things just to do things, which isn't good, but it's fun!

[Candice Woodcock]

So I'm pretty happy with the way that vote went. I'm happy that somebody who poses some sort of threat went, instead of a Sekou or Phillip.

Still, I get some sort of uneasy feeling with just the way everything happened. I feel like Brandon is Miki's #1 over me, which is concerning, and I feel like associating myself with them isn't necessarily smart either. I feel like they both have some enemies on other tribes, especially after this vote. So with my initial misgivings about the alliance, it just seems like even more reason to distance myself.

[Candice Woodcock]

Episode Two/Three:

I'm happy and bothered at the same time by this 5-tribal thing. It's good because it means I could get rid of Brandon, finally. I was kind of expecting that never to occur since we did so well in the last challenge.

But....if Brandon wins individual, I'm screwed. Because then I can't see it being anyone but Elyse, who I actually want to work with since she's relatively alone at this moment.

But back to getting rid of Brandon, I never really confessed just about how easy that will be. Elyse is weary from Brandon, Judd is weary of Brandon, and so am I. Both of them have come to me discussing voting out Brandon, so all that means is that we need one more. I don't find that difficult.

The reason I want to get rid of Brandon is because it'd be almost impossible to do so later. He has unbelievable connections throughout the game, and is also tighter with Miki than I am.

[Candice Woodcock]

I'm apparently very desperate to throw off Brandon.

Not only have I basically closed myself in to an alliance with Judd and Elyse, but I spent a good half hour yesterday convincing Ibe that I won't leave him behind after this vote - something I wasn't too against before then. With that, I don't want to form a rivalry with Miki, who may or not be too pissed with me when she finds out I lied and plotted against her completely.

And I typed this I just made another mistake, I accidentally revealed to Judd that I'm not against aligning with Elyse, something he didn't know. I temporarily forgot Judd wanted Elyse gone soon. I'm hoping that it doesn't ruin anything because I'll have to kick myself in the throat. Damn!

[Candice Woodcock]

Episode Four:


What sucks about the impending tribe swap I soon foresee is that I'm really comfortable in my tribe right now. I really view myself as the most powerful person in the tribe, and feel like people aren't even wise to it . I feel as if Elyse, Judd, and Miki all view me add their number 1,which is pretty cool, and Ibe and I also are "watching each others back. "

If, in some beautiful, twisted bizzaro world we stick like this, I'd shoot to get rid of Coach in the case we must vote someone out. He's the only person I don't trust to not vote me, and I believe I'd be able to pull it off, even if Ibe is set on voting Miki. Even though I did promise him my loyalty, I did the same to all but Coach, and Ibe just happens to be the one I trust and plan on really working with least.

Wow, if I continue down this road I can strip my rootable persona of SI2 and emerge as some amazing All-Star bitch. As long as things don't go awry it can very likely happen since I will have to cut some allies eventually.

PS: My downfall usually occurs once I get too arrogant. Watch out!

[Candice Woodcock]

Alright, well I'm not crazy about my new tribe, but as long as I survive this vote I think I'll be good.

They're significantly less social than Gwad, at least to me, and I wasn't surprised to know that I became some form of target once we lost immunity. It's my knowledge that Cochran is heavily against Elyse and I, and Pete, Alexis, and Cochran are also a pretty tight threesome.

Luckily, since I have an ally as awesome as Elyse, I took a backseat and she got me into a six-way alliance vote with herself, Rob, Shawna, Kourtney, and Colby. It's a plan to vote out Pete, I think because he's least social? I don't know, I'd go for Cochran, but I'll hold that off until we lose again. As long as they're all legitimate in what they say, which I think they are, I'll be okay and will make it through this tribal the entire tribe until we hopefully do a swap.

[Candice Woodcock]

Episode Five:

Great! Me and a bunch of boys...

In honesty and I am worried because Cochran targeted me last time and will again this time. Hopefully I can organize something against him.

I really enjoyed the display at the challenge today. There wasn't a trace of subtly with the way that DD, Syd, Vee, Kourtney, Shawna, and Alexis threw people out to their tribes, controlling where everybody went. They were gracious enough to put me in the tribe none of them wanted to be on, which in itself is quite flattering. So the way they handled everything was not only kinda stupid and telling, but offensive. I kind of have a personal problem against them know, and personal problems are always the funnest ones to handle.

They'll meet their demise as some point...something so shameless doesn't go without punishment.

[Candice Woodcock]

Sorry about my slacking confessionals, busy weekend.

Anyway, back to Thursday, I, with encouragement from an excessive amount of Bud Lite and a mysteriously eager Elyse, I confronted Danielle about it, almost passive-aggressively calling her out on the challenge, and she seemed confused and denied. Although I do think I exaggerated the tightness and skillfulness of them collectively, she was obviously just not willing to admit it, because it was really obvious to everyone how set-up the entire challenge was. It really was against my better judgment to confront her like that, but...


Luckily though, I am in a pretty good spot, compared to others. I can talk to Judd and Mikayla and encourage them to take charge and try to get rid of one of the girls, and be completely safe while doing it. If worse comes to worst, one of them, who I do really like, will get voted out and not me.

But due to our abysmal effort in the challenge, and I'm taking responsibility as well, we do have to vote somebody out. It's my knowledge that Cochran is going for me, which isn't a surprise. He apparently is set on making big moves, and apparently I am a big player ~ flattering, I know. So anyway I spoke to Ibe and the Robs about it. All are alright with voting Cochran, although the Robs are also eager to vote out Ibe, who did contribute nothing to the challenge, but I'm pretty smoothly steering them away from that without them realizing I want to keep him as long as possible. I do like my tribe, and I feel like, again, as long as this vote goes well, I can really be the most powerful member of it.

[Candice Woodcock]

I may be in slightly more trouble than I originally realized, but it's nothing I can't wiggle out of with just my social capabilities.

I tried talking to Cochran just to be nice again, since he ignored basically every other "hello" I messaged him, and he kinda acted like an asshole. It bothered me to a point where I kind of just wanted to be like...

[Candice Woodcock]

So, the tables were all turned against me, people being really vague, submitting to what Cochran wanted...

So, in true Candice form, I think I may have successfully turned tables. Upon discovering that people believed Cochran would better fight against the alliance of chicks, I was so infuriated by such an asinine, ridiculous idea that I just had to make sure Cochran went before me. So I spoke to Rob C. and Ibe, and they were all "I really want to do this/we don't have the numbers/etc." So I created a group chat, between us three and Boston Rob. Bringing half the tribe together like that made people recognize how possible it was to remove Cochran from the game, and once I finally got Ted to agree to the decision, we had a majority. So, I'm pretty sure I'm successfully blindsiding Cochran tonight, with the help of the Robs, Ibe, and Ted.

Really living up to this "The Fighter" title yet again, aren't I?

[Candice Woodcock]

Just a random thought here, since the game the game is pretty much without life today, I might as well express it.

Our (inept) tribe over here almost turns this game into something you'd see on a scripted series. We keep talking and planning things based off on what would be best for dwindling the alliance of girls, who almost pose as Big Bads. Our secondary goal (second to winning) is to take them down and cause them to lose their power, and what we're doing right now is the lead up to that ~ almost creating a story arc. It's as if the concepts of Dexter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Veronica Mars were intertwined with that of Survivor to create what is kind of happening now.

But all this, too, is funny because I don't think the alliance is so tight and expands as far as people seem to perceive. The night that everyone began realizing I was really suspicious of it spreading to a point where we can do little to stop it, but at this moment I don't think it's anything so tight or so unified to where it's almost a wall that nobody can pass through.

I'm sure those reading won't get what I mean at all, but if any of you do, it's kinda weird, isn't it? Oh well...think I'm crazy...

[Candice Woodcock]

Episode Six/Seven:

Coach going isn't a bad thing for me at all. He was pretty irrelevant to my game, and would only be an obstacle later on ~ so it's good he's gone. Also, I was highest on his bootlist...jerk.

But I'm still really satisfied with my tribe at the moment. Although I was the biggest target during the last vote, I've completely got myself out of the woods and I don't even think I'm considered a target anymore. It's my knowledge that Boston Rob is really weary of Ted, and is paranoid that he's going for him, which I don't necessarily think it's 100% true. But it basically opens a window to get rid of Ted, who I don't really trust or plan on working with. I liked him before, but him planning on voting me out before I had to convince him otherwise sort of obliterated any desires to work with him. So even though I want to win this challenge, I wouldn't be devastated if we lose.

[Candice Woodcock]

Well that was quite the pathetic challenge performance. Unless Rob completes the puzzle in 37 seconds, I can confidently say there's a 0% chance of us winning this.

The balance beam was a trainwreck. Thank God I was there to fix their mistakes because they had one literally every four posts. That was not Ted's best showing. And the Memories wasn't too much better. Ibe was taking a good 30 seconds to post for the first seven or so. I also had the thing where I mislabeled the names, but 10 minutes just seems like a long time.

It would have been awesome to win, just to kind of shove it in their faces, but oh well. It'll be Ted if we go, and I'm sure Ted will go for Ibe ~ so no votes for Candice this time around! *yay*

[Candice Woodcock]

So it's my knowledge that we're saying goodbye to Ted here. Even though I wasn't the one who spread voting Ted (that was Boston Rob), it's exactly what I would have tried for. Not only was Ted completely okay with getting rid of me when Cochran left (which they all were, but the Robs at least approached me willing to change it), but he's a social pariah. Everyone on the other tribes really want him gone, so it's better if we get his impending elimination over with so we can get rid of someone more interesting and important later on.

I wholeheartedly trust that nobody's lying to me. Carter's (justified) paranoia about the vote points that he's definitely voting for Ibe, which would mean Ted is. I have Ibe pretty comfortable in my back pocket so I have no worries of him voting for me, and I don't see either of the Robs going so deep into a lie. I'm happy to have flipped my position on this tribe, which I'm really hoping will begin to start switching around soon.