- made the ultimate decision to hold off starting my paper until tomorrow afternoon when the school library opens and I can take advantage of their incredible fluorescent lighting, free printing, and resources
- finished reading Pledged, a wonderful book about the secret life of sororities
- baked a TON of Christmas cookies to give to my staffers and friends at school
- watched "The Preacher's Wife" and "You've Got Mail" and recited all of the dialogue, which made me very happy because I am one accomplished chick-flick-dialogue-reciter
- went to Target with Monika and bought a new purse and Arthur's birthday gift
- also went to Marble Slab with Monika and had the most incredible cheesecake flavored ice cream ever. And there were raspberries mixed in, which made it delicious and healthy (fruit = good for the body)
But there was a teeny bit of bad mixed in with my good. I had a bit of a meltdown (makeup streaming, shoulders shaking, incoherent babbling) because it hit me that next winter break will probably be the last time I will be around to stay home and bake cookies and watch my favorite movies with my mommy, as I plan on moving up to New York :( She assured me that she would find me wherever and bake with me, which made me feel a little better.
Gee whiz, though. I am getting soft in my old age. Just this week alone, I cried over that, twice over J.K. Rowling's commencement speech, and once over a sappy Hallmark card.
Mental note: Invest in some good waterproof mascara.
I am going to make rainbow cookies right now. That's what they look like. They are deeeeelicious. (Photo taken New Year's Eve, ringing in 2006).
2 comments:
1) love your blog :)
2) I find books like Pledged to be biased and set out to find all the negatives they can.... but then again I've not read it so I may be coming to conclusions.
3) "From the outside looking in you can never understand it, from the inside looking out you can never explain it"
4) We have a girl who keeps going through recruitment EVERY year and doesn't even make it til bid day because her butt is flagged. She went to UCF and got a Bid from Kappa Delta there where before she was initiated she dropped and went on to write a blog or something to expose all their secrets. She came to UNF and the ladies at UCF informed everyone..... (what I'm getting to is that's the kind of person I feel would write something to expose sororities).
The girl scared me though haha. I'll explain it later. :)
1) Thank you!
2) There were some negatives exposed in the book, but there were a handful of positives as well. Granted, there was a bias because it only followed four girls from one school, but the author, an investigative journalist who went to Yale and has written for the New Yorker, spent a lot of time interviewing people from Nationals, other sorority girls, and alumnae. She visited different meetings and seminars to get a wide scope of Greek affairs, which I thought was a good idea. I went on her [Alexandra Robbins] site, and she said that a lot of sorority girls who have read the book think it is a really good account and accurate portrayal, but that she gets a ton of hate mail from people who haven't read the book. I liked it, though, and recommend it.
4) Lol I can see where that would be a huuuuuuuuuuge problem. Alexandra Robbins was never a member of Greek life, so she had never been like, backstabbed or hazed or treated poorly and was out to seek revenge on people. From what I understand from reading the book, going on her site, and watching a few online interviews, she just wanted to see what the big hullabaloo is when it comes to sororities.
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