Round 1 - First Impressions

[Mike Birbiglia]

So hitting the ground running with the first HoH immediately starting after I got into my freakin' room. I still haven't unpacked! I slept in my freakin' pants, my only pants last night. Found that Britney and Nicki were cuddlin' the whole night and adversely hoggin the covers. It might be LA but that doesn't mean we need the AC blasting when it's only 60 degrees out. If I would've only got into the house a little earlier, I would've been able to get some really sweet diggs. Not that I'm complaining, I am with some hot chicks, Sandra and Lindsey included so that should warm things up a little. Then again I don't see them making many moves with me. But who knows, when you are limited to what you got, you gotta take what you can get!

I got the chance to talk to a few of the cast last evening on AIM while working on HoH. The only person I took the initiative to message myself was Kate and she wasn't really that talkative. Blah! Nicki, messaged me from like an 8th or 9th screen name that she has. I shouldn't have to ask her who she is every time. Oye! But two people I did get to talk with pretty extensively and had really decent chats with were Sandra and Johnny. I know, I smashed Sandra earlier saying she was very Robo-ish but she actually turned out to be a pretty decent chat and at the very least amusing. I'm definitely going to be revisiting chatting her soon. Johnny was an absolute connection right away. It was really easy to get along with him and we already kind of made a commitment to work together, but not let it known too much that we really honestly do think highly of one another. I also had good chats with Bradley and Sean.

People who I would like to talk with yet are Britney, Lindsay, Noah and Christine. I think they all have positive qualities about who they are and so far haven't shown me any character flaws in any of their posts.

Who I'm dreading to talk to right now are Drew, Dianna and Adam. Out of the three Drew seems like the best chance of actually talking to and have a decent chat with but he's too in love with Adam to really see past it, or maybe its the other way around. I don't know. That's just the vibe that I get. And Dianna, a piece of work she is. I don't really know if she has been of sober mind once when she has posted on these boards. Someone like that you almost want to keep around because in essences they aren't going to do well. I can't remember many sobriety tests that I've ever past while intoxicated. Your motor skills are just severely depleted when you are that way. Anyway enough said, I hope maybe I can talk to them, and maybe I can be proven wrong, but usually my first judgement of people can be spot on. Then again I was wrong about Sandra.

My HoH strategy was not effective in my mind but we'll see. I don't think I have all the tools need to actually get the amount of votes to win. I'm sure someone out there utilized a voting bot or something dumb. I asked friends, family, pretty much my entire Facebook family to vote for me. I'll see if that was effective or not. More to come later.

[Mike Birbiglia]

So I know this was old school like two days ago, but still touching on HoH. When HoH was slowly being revealed, I saw myself has having the lead in two out of the three poles, but when all was said and done so was Noah and the weighted value plus the extra work he did to get Audience votes scored him the HoH. I don't know how much more I could've done to solicit. I attacked my facebook friends, I posted on voting websites which was really probably only worth two or three votes. LAME! And I attempted to hit up fan clubs and FB groups, but quickly got stopped for as FB calls it, "Annoying behavior".

I quickly made sure I congratulated Noah and started chatting him up a little. First off I feel like it's just polite and courteous to congrats whoever HoH is, despite the barrage of IMs they may be receiving. Also you like to be available to them, just like I was Noah, to discuss who they are putting up, preferable not yourself. So after I chatted with him for a while and got a feeling that he wasn't putting me up, I suggested to him actually putting up people who were inactive/low on the D list from the first competition. I quickly began to learn that most of the house were starting to develop similar thoughts about Dianna and Lindsay. Low and behold dem da bitches that went up. I probably would be torn with who I am voting for, but Lindsay actually seems like she is making an effort now and after her being nommed she did message me and we talked a little. I also saw her kick absolute ass during the reward challenge, but I'll touch on that when I have a bit more time. For now I'm outty.

[Mike Birbiglia]

Oh and I know you guys are going to be mad, but better late then never?

I found these...

...like 2 days ago and never posted them until I was talking with Penn and he encouraged me to get them up here.

Key 2 I found at the "!" point at the end of the Public note in the Secret Attic.

Key 4 I found during it's very short 5 minute stay under the link to PM Lucy.

Thus far the only one who knows anything about the key(s) I found is Johnny, who at the current time only know about key two which I shared with him.

[Mike Birbiglia]

I guess while I'm at it, I must make note that I'm exhausted from this game, not that this game is exhausting, but that maybe I'm putting a lot more effort into this game which is causing me to burn the candlestick from both ends. I will surely find myself going to bed earlier this evening as I don't think I need to stay up too late in order to cast a vote. That is pending PoV results being posted and PoV decision, and Noah announcing his final nominations if needed. So help me if I watch all that happen and for some dumb ass reason I get put up on the chopping block. Okay, I'm 99.9% certain that won't happen, but there is a reason why they call them blindsides. Onto PoV. I know I said I really wasn't going to try, but I did put effort into this. I check with both Sean and with Johnny and figure out that I had the most obvious ones, and was able to offer very little to them. The one thing I do have going for me is I'm like 100% sure that I've got them all correct that I submitted. That coupled with my "FREE" pick gives me 15, which will be shy of first I'm certain. Sean had 21 alone before even talking to me. The only hope is that on answers guessed wrong, people would lose enough points to drop below my 15 points. We'll see. I'm sure there are some beast out there that know their stars. Haha for #29. Mr. Peanut is a star. I'll update a little later about my relationships in the game. Tata for now.

[Mike Birbiglia]

Phew, I feel like every time I come in here I have a lot to write and just a little time to write it all in. PoV was okay, as I got a decent score, I didn't score a negative score. WTG Dianna! I still don't know what I would have done if I won PoV. In hide sight yeah, I would have loved to say that I would have chosen Lindsay and saved her, but in all reality, knowing that Noah hasn't signed on for a short bit, I would have not saved anyone so that we didn't have to rely on Noah to make a replacement nomination. But that's neither here nor there since I didn't win PoV. Nicki did, with an amazing score and I have a feeling she is a pretty strong competitor to have done that well. She saved Lindsay which I agree with because, A. I want Dianna to GTFO and B. Lindsay has stepped it up, and she seems to want to invest in me.

Noah...where are you? I think he is off building an Ark or something. All kidding aside I hope if he is having personal troubles that everything is okay. I'm not entirely sure that he isn't going to be back, so I'm interested in how the host will address this issue. My thoughts are to possibly auto-evicted Noah, which wouldn't be the most fair, but come on, your HoH and you can't come around to visit? Two, in a weird twist, put him up for eviction. I know it wouldn't be right either, but at least it would give him the chance to stay and also allow us to cast votes. Lastly the option to take the person lowest on the D-list and make them a nominee, which I believe would be Christie. I would be most comfortable with Noah being auto-evicted because there is obviously a reason why he has been gone from the game and what ever that reason is, that it was grand enough that he could not give notification of his absence, should be addressed, and being in the game right now should not be a concern. It's not being malicious, it's just life. So we'll wait and see how that plays out.

I've noticed over the course of the past few days that many of the Houseguest are favoring me. Like I've actually been asked by at least three, maybe four people to work with them. The list includes but is not limited too Adam, Britney, and Lindsay. People that I kind of have a good status with, and I would like to work with outside those three people would be Sean and Johnny. Everyone else I'm in good standings with but I just don't know why everyone wants to jump on the Mike bandwagon all of a sudden. It kind of makes me suspicious. Specially Adam, he came straight out with in the first 15 minutes of our first solid talk and communicated that he wanted to work with me. Okay buddy... settle it down now. He even mentioned to me that he thought he was being a little forward. Ugh yeah! I guess people considering they rather be on my good side than my bad. He did offer up a lot of good information though which has really given me a better out look on his and I's chances of working together. Also every time someone ask me to work with me, I feel like I can't say NO. Can I? I can't! It would be a slap in the face, but what happens when I am HoH, and I am working with everyone? I guess then I'm going to have to step on someones toes. Hopefully before then someone will have stepped on mine first and give me some incentive. I would love one of the secret attic prizes btw. Not that everyone wouldn't but I feel like I'm sitting well. I just have no clue where to find any more of them damn keys. Well better get back to work! Love all!