Excited for Recruitment!

[zetatheta]

sorry for the delay! happy new year everyone!!!

So i ended up waking up for breakfast with the Circle sister, lets call her Daisy, even though my first class wasn't until the afternoon (i wanted to make a good impression and not blow her off). We had a really nice breakfast--talked about all sorts of stuff unrelated to sorority life. I really liked Daisy, i thought that she was definetly the stereotype of a "sorority girl," but the kind that I wanted to be friends with--the good stereotype lol. As we were leaving she made a two second plug (it was seriously so slick that she made me think it was my idea) about the Circles COB party on monday. I told her that I would definetly be there.

As the next couple of days went by, i still had no idea exactly what i wanted to do, but at least i had developed a plan. Since i still had another semester before spring recruitment, i figured that i might as well go to the Stars and the Circles COB parties, because maybe the famous Star sister was right and I just didnt know the girls well enough to judge if i wanted to be their sister... Both the Stars and the Circles were holding COB parties on both monday and tuesday night at 8...since I didn't need to go to both nights in order to recieve a bid (info courtesy of daisy), I thought that I would go to the Circles on monday and the Stars on tuesday (i was more interested in the Circles). And if i still didnt want to be anything but a triangle, then i would just wait and go to recruitment again in the spring. I also decided to drag Julie to the parties, although she wanted to go to the Circles--she absolutely refused to be a Star and really didnt want to wait until the spring.

On Monday night I got dressed up in a hawaiian wrap skirt and matching top and a pair of flip flops (Daisy told me it was a tropical theme and I thought i'd dress to match even though i didnt have to). Julie was just wearing jeans. Walking into the lounge on monday was so much easier than it had been during recruitment. There was a nervous sort of tension in the room--but one that was exciting, not anxious. We started the night mingling. There weren't many PNMs there--at least i didn't notice any, although I guess there were actually about 6 girls (which is a lot of cobbers at my school). I was really relaxed, a feeling i had remembered during recruitment, and decided to stand and mingle rather than confine myself on the couch like the other PNMs. I started talking to this beautiful red headed theatre major (Paige*). I was really excited because i recognized her as a girl that some of my former ex's had talked up. They called her Paige-red-hair...which is not very creative, but that is seriously how distinct her hair is. We bonded over talking about eyebrow pencils and Deborah Messing, before some hip-hop came on and we both started talking about "desparate pale-ass-white-girl-trying-to-be-ghetto dancing" We had attracted a small crowd of sisters as we were showing off our own moves in the aforementioned style of dance. (we're both super white so it was pretty amusing...especially since while shes a trained dancer, i just have no skills at all and couldnt dance to save my life) I had to go to an RA meeting at 10, and so had to leave in the middle of the party, but before i left, we played an icebreaker game where everyone had to answer a specific question depending on the color M&M they chose from a jar. My question was "what 3 things would you bring to a deserted island?" My answer was "a boat, some paddles for my boat, and a man to row it for me."--which i of course thought was awfully clever lol. I left the party feeling like i had just been hanging out with some friends, not like i had been trying to join some exclusive group of girls who thought they were better than me--which is how i had been feeling about other groups lately, probably due to some bitterness and resentment. I also really liked the COB party versus recruitment and so was looking forward to the Stars party the next day.

---sorry very tired--must end now lol, i'll leave you in glorious anticipation.
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