Something Bigger Something Brighter

Oh man, I missed a day again. OK, time to play a lit­tle catch-​up!

Thurs­day… woke up rel­a­tively late, and with a headache. Didn’t feel like going to CoHo. Sat around on the com­puter for a while, post­ing, read­ing Xan­gas and emails, and try­ing to get some work done. Talked to Peggy S, who was doing some home­work at home. She needed to go to Dol­lar Tree for some­thing, so I tagged along for kicks and gig­gles. We both ended up get­ting stuff for LBs, even though nei­ther one of us was com­pletely sure we were get­ting LBs this term. I guess we are now.

Peggy S had a class after that but didn’t want to go… I finally talked her into it, but only by way of going with her. Funny… I said I would sit next to her and poke her to keep her up, but I ended up falling asleep in that class, while Peggy S actu­ally stayed up and took notes.

Then it was get­ting close to din­ner time, so we went back to her place, and Peggy S started cook­ing up dumplings and rice balls and her Iron Chef dessert for us, while she made me watch TV. Oh yeah… I tried to help out at one point, but I ruined some stuff and then she beat me own with a spat­ula and kicked me out of the kitchen.

Let’s see… besides her room­mates, Lin and Liz (the pledges), Helen and (some­one whose name I for­got), Ali­cia, Eddie C, Eddy, Tom, Joe M, Ian R, Drew M, and Clint S also came over to eat. I don’t know why, but it turned into “bag on Joe M night” and some things were said that he didn’t like too much. I’ll admit I was involved in it, too. I set up a com­ment and Peggy S spiked it. And then Peggy S and Drew M fed off each other for a while. Thursday’s quote, comes from Joe M’s reac­tion to a cer­tain part of the conversation -

“Ah! I can’t stop myself. This is so worth it! You’re such a bitch, Peggy!”- Joe M, cussing dur­ing Lent.

Just gotta keep Peggy S on it and soon, Joe M’s count will sur­pass mine. And I bit back on some com­ments of my own, because they were very messed up. But I told Joe M one in par­tic­u­lar later… he liked. Well, maybe not liked, but he was able to laugh about it. All in all, very proud of myself as enter­tain­ment chair.

We finally took off around 1:30 because one of her room­mates was going to sleep, and we were a lit­tle loud. Went home with Eddie C and kocked out myself.

Thursday’s table of regret -

It’s hard not to slip up while mak­ing fun of people.

Now to cover Fri­day… I got talked into chalk­ing, so went to sleep around 2:30 only to wake up at 5:00, because I wanted to shower, and I was sup­posed to call Joe M and Peggy S to make sure they were up. Peggy S ended up call­ing me just moments before 5:30, when I was going to call her, and chewed me out for not wak­ing her up sooner. I apol­o­gized pro­fusely and then called Joe M, who took his wake-​up call a lit­tle more in stride. He came by and picked Eddie C and me up to go to campus.

We chalked until around 7:30, then went to Baker’s Square to eat with Ian R and Kitty K. Went with Ian R and Joe M to Arden after that… we got there ten min­utes before the mall opened, though, so we sat in the car for a bit. And ended up knock­ing out in the park­ing lot for an hour. Wan­dered around, but I think we were all still half-​dead, so back to Davis we went. Got dis­tracted by the com­puter when I got home, so I only got an hour of nap­ping in before it was time to go to cam­pus for ini­ti­a­tion. About sixty pledges showed up! Tran Class is look­ing big and strong indeed. Oh, Peggy S and I got to play with a group of them! We may have scared them a bit with our jok­ing, though…

“Did you tell them to bring tow­els?”- Peggy S.
“No, I thought PPs would…”- Me.
“Oh. It’s pretty cold for swim­ming tonight, though…”- Peggy S.
“Yeah, I would hate to be in the Arbore­tum tonight.”- Ronnie.

Dur­ing the cer­e­mony, some stu­pid girls kept inter­rupt­ing, so I ended up stand­ing guard in the hall. Come on… if you open a door and see some peo­ple, most likely they will still be there five min­utes later, there’s no need to check again. And again. And again. Oh, and I didn’t get a spon­soree. But Clint S got one, and I’m pretty sure Annie got one, so I have a spon­soree squared now.

After ini­ti­a­tion, went to Mur­der Burger with Aaron L and Mo W. I got an Aggie Anni­hi­la­tor. Man is that thing awe­some. But over­all, the ser­vice at Mur­der Burger has been going down­hill. They took for­ever to take our order, and even longer to cook it. And my fries were cold and soggy when I got them. We went over to In N Out, where every­one else was eat­ing, and awed them with the size of my burger. Then we went to Avalon Lounge, the place of the offi­cial after-​initiation meet-​and-​greet. I some­how got sucked into help­ing with the Tran Class Pledge Retreat. Well, I’m gonna try to be hands off, and only offer advice as necessary.

Peggy S, Becca Y, and I left early and went back to my place. Peggy S and I watched the William Hung movie as Becca Y watched Bleach up in my room. They took off after­wards, and I went upstairs to find Becca Y had cleaned up my whole room! It was amaz­ing! Thanks so much, Becca Y! Fell asleep in my cleaner, more spa­cious bed after that.

Friday’s table of lament -

Those stu­pid girls made me say some­thing I didn’t want to.

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