[LovesSprinkles]

I had to wait all week, but Friday had finally come and I would go to up to six parties that night. I got a french manicure that morning, and had coffee with Alexandra before my 12:30 class. She was stressed, so we talked about everything not involving rush. It did not help matters for her that Kirsti, her roommate, discussed rush night and day.

I went with Jamie to the meet with my rush group. Again, the rho gammas took about four hours to hand out our invites...I was shaking! Here were my invites...

Pinto
Hoover
Boon
Babs

Again I was upset that I did not have a full schedule, but I was not as devastated as the week before. I also wasn't upset that Katy had dropped me...throughout the week I had met girls from that house that were very sweet, and others who were not nice girls. I had decided that I did not want that dynamic in my house. I was thrilled to go back to Pinto, happy to go back to Hoover and Boon, but I did not want another awkward experience at Babs.

Babs: The first girl I spoke to was very sweet. I wished she would stop telling me about the Wii in the sorority basement though. I grew up forbidden to play video games, so I really did not know how to contribute to the conversation. The second girl, however, was the same girl who from last weekend who told me about how she loved to drink and black out. Luckily this time, the girl I doubled with had the same lip ring as the rusher, so they had a conversation while I sat there trying to think of something to add to the conversation. I was relieved when they started our tour. The house was gorgeous, and I saw Alexandra walking with another tour group. I turned to wave at her, lost my footing, and went flying down the stairs! Oops. I was so embarassed, but the girls were sweet. Still, this house was not the one for me.

Boon: I really liked this house. I really connected with both the girls I spoke to, and began to feel very comfortable at Boon. This was a suprise, because I never expected to like Boon at all. As they led me through the house, which was old, but very pretty inside, I started to really realize how much I liked Boon. Still, I doubted that I would be asked back for pref.

I had a break at this point, so I spoke to Lani. She only had three houses, and was happy with Pinto and Dean Wormer, but hated Babs. Turns out she had the lip ring girl, only in her case, the lip ring girl told her about her...um...below the waist piercings.

Hoover: I really liked this house. I loved the girls I spoke to, and I loved how each one of them was so different, but I still connected to them all. They had recolonized fairly recently, but the girls were so sweet, pretty, and cool that you never would have known that Hoover was a smaller newer house. I felt very comfortable with Hoover.

Pinto: Alexandra and I were paired together at Pinto. Our rusher, Leah, asked us if we had been friends before rush. The three of us had a great conversaton...it had been the best conversation where I had been doubled up to a rusher. The girls who gave a tour of Pinto's gorgeous house was a comedy team, and I loved them. I got into conversation with them on our tour, and it was like talking to my best friends. I walked out of the house loving Pinto.

That night, I went and listed the ones I wanted to go back to for pref, and ranked my bottom house.

My favorites:
Pinto
Boon
Hoover

Ranked
1. Babs

I went to sleep terrified, knowing that the houses would make a lot of cuts that night.