Week :: One

[Roddy Mancuso]

I Love Late Night Chats

Roddy's Devilish Confessions

Well, this was the moment we were all waiting for. I was honored to be selected as part of the cast and we moved in on December 4th!

I know i've been a bit boring this week, but I also came down with the flu, so please excuse my dear aunt sally for that.


I believe by now i've talked with almost everyone in the house, and I get along with them all. Among the people I seem to get along with most are Drew, Dave, James, Janelle, Nakomis, and Holly....I think i've talked with Sarah a bit, too. (But that might be the influenza kicking in. LOL) Also, I helped Will out a bit in the beginning of the HoH competition when it was his turn by reminding him so maybe that gained me some points with him.

Holly told me "everyone thinks i'm funny" and i've also been told "everyone likes me". Now, what exactly "everyone" stands for is something I need to be weary of, and the fact that "everyone" likes me can be a good thing or a bad thing. For the first three weeks or so, it's a good thing. After that, it can be a bad thing. I can start being looked at as too likable, and people might want to get me out for that.

As of now, the only even slightly alliance type of thing I have going on is a "coalition" that me and David made. Now...we never exactly established any of the terms of this coalition. Since we're close I will honor it by not nominating him if I win HoH, etc., etc., but I will take it with a grain of salt until it is made a little more official.

In the first HoH, I pretty much knew I wasn't winning that shit, so I at least took the opportunity to take out someone I never talk to...Michelle. Lo and behold, looks like the wall showed up for the HoH competition! And I call her the wall because....she exists? Just like the wall, I guess she blends in with her surroundings. I never see her in the house, yet she decides she does want to compete after all. Then again, I guess standing perched on a little pedestal comes naturally, as she is clearly an emotionless plastic manakin.

Anyways, I went in the competition for two hours and then decided not to waste any more time in it and gave up. Luckily, the one person I have some type of...deal?...with, David, won.

He chose to nominate Jean Jordan and Rachel. I also had no idea Rachel existed, so I couldn't disagree with that decision. As far as Jean Jordan, I felt bad because she is clearly going through a rough time, but I guess she hasn't communicated as much as some of the others. Still, i'd hope some people would get over that and give the girl a chance to actually play.

[Roddy Mancuso]

Addition: Title "I Love Late Night Chats"

Why not theme each week with a title coming from a quote from someone?

This week that honor goes to Jean Jordan, who said it during a chat around 2 AM between her, me, Janelle, Nate, and Nakomis.

I thought it sounded dirty and sexual innuendo-ish when she busted out with that, sorta like a "It's 2 AM call now you know you want to" phone-sex commercial or something.

Then again, she does claim to be a stripper. Who knows?

[Roddy Mancuso]

Pre-Veto Ceremony Shocker: "Surprise! You're In An Alliance!"


So, I log on to find a PM from James.... the kind of message I hate the most to get from somebody. It's pretty much TELLING me... (yes, telling me)...that i'm in an alliance with such and such group of people.

Now, I needed to make an alliance and due to me being sick didn't actually make the best progress with that so perhaps this will help for now, but the terms of this alliance is extremely risky and I don't know how much I agree with it. While I saw myself most likely aligning with David, Drew, and James, and even Janelle at some point, I didn't necessarily want to align with Danielle yet because we haven't talked enough to do so. Also, an alliance of our room is pretty obvious.

In addition, I don't like jumping into an alliance of pretty much mystery people who also don't even know they're in the alliance yet? David and Janelle are clearly trying to take some form of early control over this game, and I don't like having no say in who i'm aligned with and who comes in and out of this alliance. While i'll probably stick with this for now, i'll feel it out and see if I want to stay with it for the long-run.

Here's the PM from James:

Hi Roddy, I've been looking for you on AIM everyday but never find you there. lol Glad you're feeling better.

Anyway, I just wanted to fill you in on something that's happening with our bedroom hotties (if you haven't figured it out already). Obviously David invited a lot of people to his HOH room, and this wasn't random. Apparently he and Janelle were talking during the HOH competition and came to an agreement where she and four others would align with David and four others, which is us, Drew and Danielle. So the plan is for the 10 of us(!) to work together to get past the first few weeks. Which is a good idea. The only thing that worries me is that word of this giant alliance could get out. ha ha. That would be bad.

But I'm not sure everyone in it, knows it's official. David, Janelle, Holly, Drew, myself and now you are the only ones that I know of that know we are all officially aligned. I'm going to PM Danielle now as well.

And here's my response:

Oh...ok. LOL Shouldn't we have all talked about this first? But it's all good, I guess. LOL

I was sick so I couldn't do much talking strategy wise but i'm fine with that I think....as long as i'm not sitting there to get taken out in the long-run, but I think i'll be fine with this. Any way we can find out who else we're going to be aligned with sooner rather than later though lol?

Also, David asked around on who to put up as the replacement nominee when Jordan (who won the Veto! ) uses it to save herself, and I pretty much said I think he'll have to just find a reason to put someone up but there is never the guarantee that they will go home against Rachel (just in case he was thinking of pulling any pawn kind of shit!...which I doubt, but still.) I am not going to put out there any problems I might have with someone this early in the game when there is no benefit to myself to do so.