The Myth & The Majesty

Quick story: I'm a coleader and hostess of a Bible study every Tuesday night. About half an hour into our meeting to--erm, last night--we got a little surprise. Someone shaving-creamed my room as the ten or so of us were sitting there. For those who AREN'T experienced with with college pranks, when I say "shaving-creamed," I mean that the culprits filled a couple of manila envelopes with shaving cream, slid the open ends under the door, and dropped heavy books on them, thereby forcefully expelling enormous amounts of said cream into the room. Of course, this isn't complete without pennying the door shut (wedging stacks of pennies into the door frame, creating the necessary tension to hold it shut, no matter how hard you pull). In our efforts to get out, the knob got broken and had to be taken off completely to get the door open. It took the hall director and my coleader working together to get THAT done, and by then we were all too happy to get out of

Things are back in full swing around here, and as such, life is getting strange again. Homework is homework. The interesting thing about going to a school full of nerds is that, well, everybody studies. If you don't study, you end up at BH. Or at least, you end up NOT HERE. Don't take that to mean that nobody parties. One of the girls on our floor and her friend came back last night more than a little snockered, and it took two RAs to get things calmed down. Things got better, but those RAs didn't get much sleep, and the girls were feeling it this morning. Also this morning, my RA/old roomie stepped into the shower only to be greeted by a 3 foot tall cow statue. This cow, Daisy, has been passed around campus since September, starting in the administrative offices and making her way to the dorms of late. Yesterday, she was downstairs. This morning, she was in our shower. Also recent: more stupid people making other, slightly less stupid people (like myself) ve