Last night's TC was about as intense as they get in this game. A line has been drawn in the sand now and the awkward tension lingering around camp is so thick that you'd probably need a knife to cut it. I guess when she realized that Ken and I weren't gonna take her bait, Betsy tried a last minute attempt to swing Jonathan's vote and he humored her; up until the last vote was read, both sides thought that they were gonna come out on top on this one.

As things stand, Yul is pretty mopey and seems convinced that his game is over... maybe it is, IDK. I'm not gonna go throwing false promises his way when I don't know. I love Yul but the best advice that I can give him right now is just to lay low. Charlie on the other hand, he's giddier than a fat kid in a candy store, and who can blame him. This game just got turned on it's head. All three of Jonathan, JR and Ken are varying levels of somber. Ken especially, seems exhausted and emotionally spent. The game is starting to take a toll on everyone. Things got real uncomfortable, real fast.

Betsy and J'Tia are definitely the ones that deserve star billing right now though; they've been having it out since yesterday afternoon before any of the evening's festivities even went down. It's been an all out cat fight. I honestly feel a little bit guilty about having a front row seat to it all... since I didn't pay. This little show would go perfectly with popcorn...

(Sno-Caps Vee seriously?! There are Raisinets, Sour Patch Kids and even Jujyfruits, and yet you would choose Sno-Caps?! JK, except Raisinets are the bomb.)

With three people immune tonight the walls definitely feel like they're starting to close in. The newly formed alliance of five, we can still vote for Betsy but if she plays an Idol then one of us is gonna get screwed.


Me if Betsy plays an Idol.

I have to give props to Betsy right now. I think that she's doing a really good job of pulling at Ken's heartstrings and just stirring the pot in general. It makes me really nervous because I need Ken to have his head in this game right now. We've always said that I'm the more emotionally guided player of the two of us, and for the most I think that's true, but right now, he's the one getting dangerously sentimental...

It's not that I'm naive about this proposed Final Five. I don't necessarily know that going that far with the Dadès Three is a good idea; it would put Ken and me in a really vulnerable position potentially. If we do end up flipping on them though, now is not the time. It'll only make us look unreliable and sooner or later that reputation will come back to bite us.

On top of that, the message in the bottle is looming over all of our heads and it's promising to make this one hell of an evening.

When I think about the friendship that I've developed with Ken in this game, I get a little bit emotional. I never imagined at the start of all this that I would meet someone who I trust so much and so wholeheartedly. It's been a rough couple of days out here, and having that one person that I know I can count on has been monumental. I know that Ken feels the same way too.


BFF basically.

I guess that early, early this morning, after almost everybody else had gone to bed, Betsy was really just making Ken feel awful, guilt tripping him about his decision to vote out Bill and the position that it left her in. It was his bond with me that really helped him realize that she was simply trying to play off of his emotions and manipulate him. I guess because he couldn't imagine me ever treating him the way that she was treating him, Ken knew that she wasn't being genuine and was simply trying to use him as a means to an end.

I don't think that Betsy is a bad person by any means but she is playing this game harder than anybody else right now. Her social game is unmatched, she's got a wonderful, disarming disposition and is just so incredibly charming. There's no way that all of that is a front... I've honestly really enjoyed the conversations that the two of us have had too, just about life in general and about random things. I do feel a real bond with her and I hope that we can continue to be friends after everything is said and done... it's just that there's no denying the truth of the matter: she's an incredibly dangerous, deadly player and if she doesn't go now, she's gonna win this game.

I'm so freaking scared right now... everything is happening so fast and I don't want to go. I'm praying to the gods of Sausage Island to please protect me tonight... I don't want to go home, I'm seventh-phobic... my heart is pounding so fast, I think I could have a heart attack.