Confessional: Round 9

[AJ]

I love it when a plan comes to fruition. Terry went bye-bye, and I'd be lying if I said it wasn't a wee bit satisfying. Terry just got obnoxious when he thought he had the numbers, and I'm glad that we informed him otherwise. The only down side was that at one point I had to completely lie to Ozzy. Doing that sort of thing to potential Jury members isn't a good way to win votes if you get to the end, but there was basically no way around it given the situation.

And to make things better, the Vote Nullify was used to no great effect. I suspect that someone on our side, perhaps Britney, used it against Terry (or Ozzy), but I'm not really sure. Doesn't matter now, though. I'm just glad it's gone. Only the tie-breaker power seems to be left to worry about, unless there's a crazy secret power still out there. A number of powers have already been used, plus you'd think that some of the people who got voted out had a power but never used it. (Terry, for instance, told me that he had the Challenge Advantage power. Too bad, so sad).

And to make things even BETTER, I was given immunity by the pre-jury for doing absolutely nothing! Pretty sweet. I'm sure some of the other people aren't too happy about it, but I don't really care what they think. Ideally, I'd like Hillary to win the immunity challenge. My plan is to basically throw the challenge, because if I won I'd give immunity to Hillary and I don't want everyone to know exactly how tight we are. Instead, I'm sending Hillary whatever possible solutions I come up with, so that hopefully two heads will work better than one and we can both be immune at the next TC.

It's nice to have a relatively stress-free couple of days after all of the mad scrambling happening lately.

[AJ]

So everything's working out this round. Hillary won immunity, and it looks like my help may have been important since she only beat Britney by one point.

I assume that it'll be Ozzy voted out this time. That was pretty much the consensus when we were doing the ground work to get rid of Terry, and I doubt that anything will change given the quick turn-around time between the challenge and TC.

Now the key is to find someone that will vote will me and Hillary in the Final Five, ensuring us a 3-vote majority. I've toyed with the possibility of trying to whack Hillary at that point, but I really doubt that I'll actually try to do it. It would burn too many bridges, plus put me in a position where I could wind up with no allies instead of at least one guaranteed. Going to the Final Two/Three with Hillary isn't an appetizing proposition given that she seems to be a good, well-respected player, but if I do ultimately try to vote her out it'll be later on in the game. And even if I did go to the jury against her, I think I could hold my own.