Today is preference, then tomorrow BID DAY! I get a day off from any offical AGD action (which is going to be spent doing stuff at work) and then we're going camping and rafting. New members move into the chapter house on Bid Day so I get to be the box and suitcase schlepper tomorrow.

I knew almost all the alumnae who have been helping out, except I met someone new yesterday. A Delta Beta (our ten minute away neighbors) alumna by the name of Joyce Aamot Greene sat across from me at lunch. We talked for over an hour and I never got a plate or ate anything, ooops!

I think the most hysterical part of recruitment was our fraternity neighbors having a dance party/impromptu karaoke sing-a-long next door. Hearing a group of men singing along to the Spice Girls, Pat Benatar, Vanessa Carlton, Hall & Oates, Billy Joel, Corey Hart, James Blunt, The Dixie Cups (Going to the Chapel), and my personal favorite The Weather Girls "It's Raining Men" made the long night go by faster. My awesome dancing and using a hole punch as a microphone made it even more special. Last year they were playing Britney Spears so I guess this is how they get pumped for men's rush.

That is really cool that you have enough room for the new girls to move into the house. Oh to have room for more than 25 girls...

It is the campus standard that new members move into the house on Bid Day (classes start Monday). It is all over the recruitment materials and the Greek Life page to NOT sign a housing contract. Depending on the physical structure and membership, there can be overflow in the past to residence halls, but a lot of upper classmen move off campus into apartments. The overflow has an added bonus of being a way to COR/COB your dorm mates. However if a woman is not placed there are rooms set aside by the University if they want to live on campus. I still don't know how all the chapters figure out in the spring how many beds/rooms they need as quota won't be set until tonight, but that is why overflow happens.

I'm sure I will be taking new members to the BIG Walmart in Lewiston to get things as our rinky dink one will be sold out between our students and Wazzu. Everything the women brought to college is with them in their temporary recruitment dorm room and we'll put it in a UHaul and bring it to the house.

It is now 6 am, and I just got back from taking the LC to the airport in Spokane. I've been up almost 24 hours so I am trying to decide if I should sleep for a couple hours or just stay awake. The new members open their bid cards at 10, and I'll have more info after that between the UHaul extravaganza and going to work.

I love Joyce!!

Ok...
 

I am waiting...and waiting and of course don't hear from anyone yet :) about Delta Theta's rush results...VANDAL SQUIRREL don't you think you can go and climb up a tree and get some sleep!!! It's not like you haven't been helping out during rush or anything and think you are tired...LOL!!!

I never got much sleep. I helped with the unloading of the Uhaul and putting things in rooms, then went to the office when the photographer showed up. I am taking a short break then headed back over to be helpful but if they don't need any help I am going to come home and go to bed.

I am so excited about going to sleep tonight, though my supervisor and I volunteered to help new students move into the dorms so I need a good night of sleep.

ETA: We bid a triple legacy (I believe all three members were from UI) and her mom was here today helping her move in. She gave her an Alpha Gam shirt from when she was a collegian and I had to walk outside for a minute because I didn't put on waterproof mascara this morning and I prefer to look like a bushy tailed squirrel and not a ring eyed racoon.

I know it sounds way cheesy, but I felt honored she came to podunk Idaho and then sat and talked with me for over an hour.

GAMMA ALPHA GOT QUOTA PLUS 10!!!
 

I am soooooooooooooo excited about this!!!!!!!!!! 65 is AMAZING! Does anyone know what the other houses at UGA got?

WOW! Red and buff roses to all our chapters and best wishes for a successful recruitment season!

Epsilon - UKy
 

Yea

Mu Chapter (Brenau Univ.) Recrutiment is Sept. 20-24.

One of the pnm's I wrote a rec on pledged Psi Chapter at Alabama!!:D

let's welcome GC's newest AGD!
 

:)
We got a new baby squirrel over in the recruitment stories forum ~ sunshine43 is a proud new AGD!! :)

WOO HOO!!