Survivor Tocantins | reality blurred + Erinn Lobdell: “I don’t get annoyed easily, and if I do, I’m really good at not showing it”

reality blurred + Erinn Lobdell: “I don’t get annoyed easily, and if I do, I’m really good at not showing it”

January 22nd, 2009 | by cwalton |

Reality Blurred interviewed each cast member before the game. Click through to hear the audio of the interviews. Erinn sounds like she’s pretty smart and has some social skills. I’m guessing that she’ll make it towards the end. “Less arrogant than Marcus” is a good thing to be.

Quoting from reality blurred + Erinn Lobdell: “I don’t get annoyed easily, and if I do, I’m really good at not showing it”

Erinn struck me immediately as a less arrogant and more fun version of Marcus: attractive, smart, charismatic, and engaging. We talked for 42 minutes, by far the most of anyone. “I feel like I’m just going to open my mouth and not stop. Please don’t let me be the girl who talks too much,” she said at one point, and while she does talk a lot, it’s not uninteresting or irrelevant babble—quite the opposite, actually.

Erinn on Survivor Tocantins
Erinn, who is coincidentally from the same small town where I was born (Waukesha, Wisc.), immediately recognized me—“I read all of your write-ups from Gabon. Is that the one where you ranked everyone in order of how much you liked them? I loved that; that was very funny”—which I point that out not to be self-congratulatory, but because it’s illustrative of her preparation, and I suppose could have influenced how much I like her. She found my interviews with Gabon cast members when she researched what happens to contestants “just an idea of what was coming at me. … I like preparation, I like knowing what I’m walking into,” Erinn said.

Still, she knows she has to be “prepare to be unprepared” in the game, and her strategy is to “be really flexible” and to align herself with a big group of people, although she didn’t use the word alliance, and instead told me that she wants to find “six, seven, eight people that I feel like, just right from the start, I should be okay no matter what grouping I’m in.” She cited both Tyson and Coach as possible allies among the other 15 cast members.