Jan 12

We have a human alarm system in my sorority house that we call wake. The freshman have to take turns spending the night at the house and waking girls up in our cold dorm between 6:00-7:30 am. Its a little bit of a pain in the butt but it's a lot nicer than having a million alarm clocks going off at the butt crack of dawn. This night my little had to spend the night so that I could get up with her and teach her how to do wake. On the nights before you have wake, you are not allowed to go out. Even though everyone was going out and having fun since its syllabus week, my little, Paige, my friend Carlee (also her big) and I ended up having a pretty swell time staying in together. We goofed off and caught up about our winter breaks and just had a grand old time together. Often times when I stay in for the night, I end up sitting on my futon or going to bed early. Even though its nice to have nights like that every now and then, I really need to start taking more advantage of the nights that I don't go out whether that means studying or doing something random with a friend.

Jan 11

This is my friend Peej and she is the person that I tend to do the most random and bizarre things with the most. I'm sure you couldn't guess that at all from this picture... Last night she came up with the brilliant idea to tape our faces and get on chat roulette. If you don't know what chat roulette is, its essentially a website where you are randomly paired up with someone around the world to talk to or see with a webcam. You see some pretty interesting things on there to say the least. We spent about 20 minutes deforming each others faces with scotch tape and had to stop every ten seconds to look away from each other, laugh and hold our faces so our tape wouldn't pop off. We thought it would be most funny if we just sat and stared at people without saying anything, just looking ridiculous. Boy were we right. We laughed so hard that we could have peed our pants. I think life should be more full of random acts of goofiness like this one. I came so close to passing up Peej's idea because I was worried about missing the One Tree Hill season premiere (embarrassing I know), but I agreed to do it anyway. I can't think of a time in my life that a random spur-of-the-moment idea hasn't become either a great decision or a great memory and I want to be sure that this year I don't pass any of them up.