While late recs are bad,
what is worse are recs
written by pissed alums.

You were asked in May
to send your information.
Two months later - what?

So you've been busy.
Guess what, cupcake? So are we.
But we don't need recs.

We love our rushees.
But enough is quite enough.
It's too late, baby.

Bama and Georgia
needed those recs months ago.
You have missed the boat.

Rush is a great thing.
It teaches many lessons.
Alas, this one hurts.

^^^ Love. Pure love.

Please do not be a
Putter-offer. Said my mom.
She was oh so right.

Pretty girls in Norts
I don't get it. My short shorts
All were terrycloth.

(Hey, speaking of shorts
Loose basketball shorts I want
But can't find. Stores please?)

In Dixie we say
Get SEC recs by May.
Oh, the doo-dah day.

Brilliant! :D

Flounces - classic # 1
 

I am going to flounce.
I will judge you. Yes, I will.
How dare you judge me?

You are a disgrace.
Oh, the way you represent
your letters is bad.

Why? Because you dare
have an opinion that is
different than mine is.

The best member? Me.
I am the sole judge of worth.
You don't agree? Bah!

I know how to be
the best representative
of your own letters.

I am out of here.
You are not worthy of me.
Flouncity flounce flounce.

You know, I have important stuff to do this evening and all this GC chit chat is keeping me glued to the PC! ;-)

I know! I am drinking way too much wine reading all this!

Flounces - classic #2
 

You are all meanies.
I am going to leave right now.
I am leaving now.

Look at me leave now.
Wait - someone has commented.
I am not gone yet.

Sure, I said I'd leave.
But then someone wrote again.
I have to respond.

This time I mean it.
I am going to leave right now.
I am leaving now.

I have more to say.
I know I said I would leave,
Define what "leave" means.

It means I'm mad now,
and will threaten to deprive
you of my presence.

But if I think of
something snarky or crucial
then I get to stay.

It is still a flounce.
Admittedly, incomplete,
moral victory!

I'm gone! Now I'm not!
It's like hide and seek for you.
Am I here or not?

Bahahahahahahaha!

I'm in the break room at work dying here! :D

Aw man, what did I miss?

I don't know, but I missed it too.

Revel in the peace.
Recruitment has not started.
Dreams have not been dashed.

I actually teared up with laughter at the last line of the first collection of flounce haikus. Flouncity flounce flounce indeed! If I was the crosstitching type I'd consider crosstitching one of those all fancy and hanging it on my wall.

Sweet tea on the porch.
Biscuits by the rocking chairs.
Don't mind if I do.

Twelve white columns rise
New house at Alabama
Or is it Tara?

Rush photos online.
When did hemlines get so high?
Clutch pearls, sip bourbon.

Nice!

Helicopter mom
I know all you know nothing
Snowflake child suffers

this paints a picture of so many of my own current thoughts & college memories!

GC Detectives
get their woman every time.
You think you are coy?

Time will really tell.
Anonymity, you think?
Not so much, ha ha!

"I know everything.
You know nothing, you fools!"
The internet knows.

The internet knows
who you are and what you do.
"The mills of the gods . . . "

GC ladies sing
this song "We know who you are"
all the doo dah day.

SWTXBelle FTW.

^ clap clap clap

Bored late in nighttime
Suddenly feel need to rhyme
Stupid waste of time

Rush story poster
Do not start your rush story
then leave us hanging.

July is ending
Parting is such sweet sorrow
Life of a teacher

Asking about rush
best piece of advice posted
clean up your facebook.

Recruitment 2014 - UT/ TX State
 

Dance party sounds like fun
until the real truth comes out.
Are you in or out?

Who would want to be
"in", if it meant that you, too,
were a stuck up . . . dog.

Glitter, glitter, everywhere,
we mark our girls, like cats
pissing on a couch.

Sometimes I am sad
Because Alpha Zeta* closed,
and then this happens.

* - Alpha Zeta - Gamma Phi Beta chapter at UT

Still want to be there,
if only to provide
an alternative.

Stupid magazine.
Decades later, still has pull.
Something must change soon.

Texas State rush, er,
recruitment started today.
Our first with house!

Well, house is not yet
finished, but pref will be held
on the ground near it.

Three awesome stories,
room to house 42 girls,
and great view of springs.

Old Main can be seen
from the third floor balcony,
nestled among trees.

Gorgeous, and without a doubt,
the best house on the campus.
Hooray, G Phi B!

I SIP'D. The
system is broken! Dumb Greeks.
When is COB?

Oh no! I was cut.
I cannot understand it
'cause I am the bomb.

Oh, really? Hmmm . . .mm.
Remember the girl
to whom you were mean?

Remember how you
thought it would be fun to get
your friends to bully?

She has a mother.
A sorority alum.
She can write no recs.

Her mother has friends.
Sorority alumnae.
They can write no recs.

Sometimes, karma comes
disguised as those you don't know.
Still, it bites your butt.

So, bullies in school,
understand that your actions
have consequences.

Not getting a bid
is not as mysterious
as you once thought, hmmm?

^^^ another great one from the GC Haiku pro

SWTXBelle does this in her sleep. If only we could be so awesome.

Great haiku props to SWTXBelle!

SWTXBell, your poetry is perfect!

IF ONLY HAIKU WERE A MARKETABLE SKILL!

Or should I say

If only haiku
were a marketable skill,
I could retire.

Only 4 syllables in the last line?! :eek:

I (1) could (2) re (3) ti (4) re "er" (5)?? :D

Excellent Haikus btw SWTXBelle! These always make me giggle.

Why do I have a feeling that it's pronounced something like "re-TAAHHHRRR" deep in the heart of Texas?:p

Hahaha! So true!

Retire only has 2 syllables.

ETA: https://www.google.com/#q=retire+definition

You missed my tongueincheekedness... But thanks. :)