Good evening folks--just popping my head in for a bit before I hit the hay.
Things are slow on the AI front w/ XYZ...I know people are busy and those at the top have a LOT of work to do in addition to their regular lives, but it gets discouraging when you hear long stretches of silence where you thought there was going to be some communication.
Naturally, your mind starts wandering--maybe there's a problem w/ XYZ, maybe the alumnae don't want to initiate post-collegiates, blah, blah, blah. So you start surfing at some other options. Tonight, there was a quasi-epiphany.
When I decide to go alumna Greek, I narrowed down my 2 choices to XYZ and ABC. These were both sororities I knew from my college days (oooooo...hints!) and had strong alumnae support in my area. I knew of others that weren't colonized at my alma mater, but one in particular, TUV, I liked, but didn't pursue right away because I didn't think there were many alumnae around. Let's face it, alumnae are going to be the ones I will bond with the most in this process.
Welp, just for Ss and Gs, I took another look. Boy, was I mistaken! Not only is the main local alumnae chapter several hundred strong, there are additional "sub-branches" within different regions of this city and they have an illustrious history going back 50 continuous years! These people are serious about lifetime sisterhood!
Now here's the kicker: both of my sisters-in-law (who I love like my own real-blood sisters) are TUVs.
I dont' know if I'm making a point here (it's nearly midnite.....:::yawn::
except that there's always options. And like I've said before in posts and PMs, it's more important to be open minded as an alumna, than as a collegiate, because there are so many new factors to consider outside of school.
I'll be glad to listen to anyone's thoughts about how long to pursue XYZ before it's time to decide it's not happening. I hope I'm wrong about that tho.....
Adrienne PNAM-2003
(going to bed now......)
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