She was saying last night that she was stupid about the game coming in and listened to the wrong people. She said she was always told she can't hang out with ANYONE outside of their first alliance (basically the one that came from the room she was sleeping in and all female) or it would look bad like she was betraying something. She said she was almost afraid to be social or talk to anyone for more than a few minutes. Then her core group would come up to her and say they were in a new alliance, but the core was still there just adding some people, etc. She said it wasn't until the Red eviction that she finally felt free to play her own game a bit more. She was owning the fact that it was a really stupid way to play the game. Kind of an if I knew then what I know now kind of thing.
That being said, yes she is on quite a high that she has a solid 3 (hopefully) and of course she needs to pump up the team along with her contributions to that team. They discussed last night before Matt got his room that the 3 of them had won ALL the comps from her first HOH to the present with the exception of Blue's veto of guessing the time.
When Matt told Bowie that Cirie was trying to make him feel guilty and bad about putting her up because they have been close and stuff, she reminded him that she had spent about 3 days kind of bonding with America this week and building trust and then had to put her up even though she would have rather taken out Felicia, so she knows it is hard to turn on people and they have been closer much longer than she was with America. She understood that it doesn't feel good, but it is a game they are playing and trying to follow a plan.
It really is unfortunate that she started out under the thumb of the Cirie/Izzy/Felicia group instead of some other people because other than a horrible concept of time (on all fronts), she is actually pretty smart and has some decent instincts when she isn't holding back. I would have liked to see how she would have played with a different set of people.