Thursday: Our initiation night for Thursdays, where we were all told to dress up like various creatures. My costume was to dress up like a Chonga: a ghetto Latina complete with drawn-on eyebrows, dark lip liner, dark skin, and a slicked-back pony tail. I borrowed a gold body suit from a girl in my house, platform sneakers from another friend, and I was ready to go.
The night was fun, and not as bad as I'd expected. I wasn't able to dodge drinking entirely, but I was able to keep it as minimal as I could. I focused more on getting caught up in what we were doing and it was possible to just not grab a drink in the mayhem of quickly passing around beers.
On a more eventful note, when I saw my parents it was once again brought to my attention that there was a major part of American media that I did not know about-- Hurricane Sandy. Apparently it was supposed to be rather big storm... you don't say. So Sunday was spent preparing for the storm as we waited for something that may or may not pass through Charlottesville. Sammy, Avery and I went to an early Counting Crows concert on the downtown mall Sunday as we awaited what would happen Monday. As the last song ended we got an email announcing that class would be canceled. That was all the school needed to turn Sunday into a Saturday. It was raining very hard but no one really listened to the "Stay home and stay safe" message from the President. It was fun to see everyone, but made the bar owners nervous since they hardly had enough staff on call to accomodate the massive crowds.
Monday, though, the wind picked up and people were a bit more timid. We spent the day inside watching the weather channel and tracking not only the storm in VA, but how all of us up North were doing. It was pretty outrageous to see how the North was torn apart, especially since we're not really hurricane territory.
Halloween kicked off last night with a progressive at DKE (where each room has a different drink in it, and you "progress" from room to room taking different drinks and getting "progressively" drunker. ha. ha.) Sammy and I were terribly exhausted though and spend an hour in someone's unoccupied bedroom alone, watching "Friends," before finally realizing we should just go home.
Tonight is Nadia's birthday dinner and the first real start of the weekend. Theta won a inter-sorority pumpkin carving contest and our prize is a $500 tab at Trinity tonight. I won't be cutting into it, of course, but free drinks mean that lots of our friends will be there, and I'm really excited when my night is not surrounded by sketchy people.
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