I remember now why advisors are a major pain in the ass...

Ironic isn't it? Advisors are supposed to be there to help you... to ADVISE you... not to make your life more difficult.

Honestly, the thing they're "advising" us on is such bull too. According to them, Panhellenic is encouraging a blanket ban on terms like "rush", "party", and "frat" and that instead, we should be replacing them with "recruitment", "event", and "fraternity". Do you know how ridiculously idiotic this all is?

First off... OUR Panhellenic doesn't give a rat's ass about what words we use... they've never said anything to us mostly because they think it's bull too. Just because you change the name of something doesn't mean it suddenly makes some preconceived social stereotype about the Greek system go away. And now all of a sudden our advisors come telling us that we need to change the way we talk about RUSH. Yeah well fuck that. I'm going to keep calling it Rush. Because that's the way it should be. Parties will always be parties and frats will always be frats.

For once The House is united on this issue. Even Miss Socially Awkward thinks this is complete crap and she usually sides with our advisors on their stupid ideas. And believe you me, they're full of them. I've come to the conclusion that while we can have really cool alums, even famous alums like A-List Actress, volunteers like advisors and such are virtually all comprised of Past Awkwards who have decided they want to wreak havoc on college life for all of the rest of us. And because they have nothing else going on in their lives now because they are all Awkward. Still. Seriously, the three main Chapter Advisors live together with cats. I'm not even making that up, they're the Crazy Cat Ladies. For the most part, they let us alone, but there are always a few times during the year when they come drive us crazy... generally during Fall Semester... no wonder I hate fall so much. They're here during RUSH, Alum events and sometimes during HELL WEEK for the PLEDGES to make sure we're not making them stand in a closet holding up gallons of milk or some stupid shit like that that FRATS do.

So many politically incorrect terms, so little time to use them.

Rush Rush Rush

I have to move back into The House in a few days, which is difficult enough in itself, but now I'm being swamped with Rush planning. Luckily, since The Social Chair and I hold the most clout on The Rush Board besides The Rush Chair herself, we redistribute our long to do lists to the younger girls. We plan, they execute.

Most reputable houses hold a rush camp before rush to talk about how to recruit new members. Generally, the youngest pledge classes have to actually take part in rush camp. If you've been in The House a while and you aren't socially incompetent, we let you just spend the time moving in and decorating your room because it's inefficient to make you sit through Rush Camp four times over just because the newest members haven't gone through it before. It works out well... each member of The Rush Board is in charge of basically teaching one day of camp so we still have four days to ourselves. My day focuses around fashion and hair, which is by far the easiest day to handle... especially most people have already finished their clothing purchases for Rush.

The Social Chair has one of the suckier days. She's great at socializing... so she's been pegged with How To Talk To Rushees and Make Them Want To Join as well as its counterpart, How To Unrecruit A Rushee Who Will Not Fit In With The Rest of The House. It's a fine balance since while we are a pretty Greek campus, we're definitely not as Greek as say... The State School and we are definitely more of an academic/research oriented campus.... which means we do get a higher percentage of Awkwards who decide suddenly that they don't want to be awkward anymore and try to escape their awkwardness by joining a sorority. And since it's partially a numbers game, Awkwards do manage to get in sometimes... which means we have to do our best to recruit the girls we like and unrecruit the girls we don't.

It's irritating that The House has our own collection of Awkwards. Mostly because they don't understand this concept of unrecruiting. Unrecruiting is just as important as recruiting, even more so to some degree since we don't want our rep to be flushed down the toilet. I certainly don't want to be associated with The Girls Who Eat Their Feelings House.

There's nothing like a great party to round out the summer...

The Sorority Prodigy came up for a visit when The Guitar Hero came up and I convinced her to stay for a few days to hang out with me and The Social Chair. This is great all around since The Social Chair loves her too... which means I have twice the amount of pull from The Rush Board, not to mention the whole fun in three girls hanging out.

Tonight we went to a house party thrown by The Flirt from The Charter House... his parents were conveniently out of town. The Flirt is as his name describes him to be... he's a decently nice guy but definitely the ladies' man. He's been trying to hook up with me since freshman year when we lived in the same dorm and used to watch House, M.D. together since we're both pre-med. We almost hooked up on Valentine's Day of that year and ever since then he's decided to pull a Dr. Chase and text me every 14th of the month to ask me out. Without fail. Apparently not as dedicated as Chase asking Cameron out every Tuesday... but it amazes me that he hasn't forgotten a 14th yet. Still... I think he's too immature for me with his erratic dating patterns.

But the party was still fun. Met some more of the guys from The Charter House who apparently all think I'm amazing ever since their Jello Fight Night. The Flirt ended up organizing a Beer Pong tournament and he insisted that we be paired up for the whole of it... I wasn't sure if it was because he admires my aim or because he wanted to get into my pants since he kept sticking the ball in my face and telling me to lick it for luck. We ended up losing to The Social Chair and The Swimmer from The Charter House but it was okay because they ended up disappearing after the tournament and I just saw them asleep downstairs on a couch.

The Sorority Prodigy similarly had fun with The Prep. I imagine her mother would approve of him in terms of his family and whatnot seeing as his mother is also a member of the DAR apparently. I can also see The Guitar Hero not being happy with me if he ever finds out about tonight because not only are there decently hot guys from his rival house hitting on me, they're also hitting on his biological little sister. I don't think anything too graphic went down seeing as they were downstairs by the bar for most of the night.

Which, of course, left me and The Flirt... although not right away since I got into a huge debate with The Football Player about the whole Brett Favre leaving Green Bay bit, which then got a bunch of guys arguing on both of our sides. But he eventually got a keg rolled our way and the guys all decided that I just HAD to do a kegstand... which I did... but then I decided I wanted a drink of water and he decided to follow along. He then tried the whole "all the blood's rushed to your head from the kegstand, let's go outside so you can cool off," which I impatiently brushed off with an "I'm fine" but then he asked me to keep him company while he cooled off. Obviously he wanted to get me outside and away from everyone, but I'm a big girl so I just gave in and went with him. We walked to a park by his house and he insisted on pushing me on the swings. He was probably going for that big "romantic" moment in every good chick flick where the guy wins over the girl... and given his drunken state, it was not a bad execution... except that the girl is in a relationship already. To his credit, he didn't try to make a physical move... but he did dig at The Guitar Hero and The Mansion and asked me if I was ever going to say yes to a date. I told him that I would go on a date with him if he ever grew up and stopped being such a flirt. I figure that he was too drunk to remember that... plus he'll never stop being a flirt so either way I'm safe.

I don't think I'll tell The Guitar Hero about tonight... mostly because I think he'll make it more dramatic than it was or needs to be. He gets a little jealous whenever he sees other guys hitting on me, which is a little irritating since well duh, I'm in a sorority and I'm hot and not an idiot to boot... what do you expect? Of course guys are going to hit on me.

I'm still here at The Flirt's house. The Social Chair and The Sorority Prodigy didn't want to leave just yet seeing as they were both curled up with their respective boys and I didn't feel like driving after drinking so much. The Flirt wanted me to sleep with him in his bed (surprise, surprise) but he was pretty drunk by the end of the night so I put him in bed and said I was going to the bathroom and he was out by the time I turned off the light so I'm in their den using the computer. Sometimes I think that dating The Flirt would be fun since he's way more into sports than The Guitar Hero is which works for me since I grew up with two brothers and a dad who were crazy about sports. And sometimes The Guitar Hero gets a little worked up about stupid drama that happens like the whole thing with The Wine Heir which then he shuts himself away and writes songs on his guitar. But all in all, our relationship works and it's fine for now.

I think I might go out for coffee and bagels in a bit... no point in going to sleep now.

Hitting the ESC key once in a while is a good thing.

Got back from a stint at the summer house. I went with The Father who wanted to get away to work on his next book.

It was nice being gone from all the inevitable drama that surfaces when a group of girls come together. The latest news is that The Relationship Girl in The House stole The Social Chair's boyfriend. It was all pretty dramatic, but apparently they were all at a weekend party together and stuff just went down. The House is totally divided about it and I swear if it gets in the way of Rush I will drag that dirt out during our Rush Prep and sort it out. The Relationship Girl is a manipulative one, but really I think she's just insecure. She can never be single, being the major point. She generally gets with a guy, gets bored of him, and waits until something better comes along. Although, stealing The Social Chair's boyfriend was low even for her.

The Social Chair seems pretty stoic about it... pissed as hell, but she seems to be dealing with it. I had her come up the last few days to spend it with me here at The Main House and we talked about it over poolside margaritas. She is probably the person I trust most on The Rush Board and I can't afford to have her go through an emotional breakdown this close to Rush.

The other inconvenience in this whole situation is the fact that The Social Chair's now Ex-Boyfriend is a bro at The Mansion with The Guitar Hero. Which means that any and all events that they host, The Relationship Girl and I will be invited to and she will want to go with me. I never liked her all that much to begin with... but I do not want to have to pretend that what she did was okay.

Tomorrow I think I might take The Social Chair out shopping to cheer her up... and get her to hit on the cute guy that works in the shoe department of our favorite department store... I've noticed him on several shopping occasions. As for tonight, we're going to stay in and watch movies while drinking champagne and eating chocolate covered strawberries.