Okay, well it’s been a pretty decent amount of time since my last posting on ye olde blog, so I figure now’s a better time than ever, right?
Anyhow, down to business! In the past weeks we’ve held two mixers, one pajama party themed with Zeta (probably one of our best mixers thus far) and another much larger one with Chi-O, Kappa, and Fiji, which was ‘ghetto-fab’ themed and; despite my humble background in the ghetto, was not a party I was suited for. Even so, the mixers have gone great and are a sufficient break from build, which is getting pretty taxing.
Furthermore, there were also two recent parties that are completely worth noting, as they were some of the coolest parties I’ve ever been to. The first was SAKEOKE, which is a kareoke/sake blend of Asian themes that results in one of ZBT’s largest, most chick-laden, fun-loving gigs in the entire academic year. All the pledges got Asian-themed costumes for sakeoke (despite being just a week away from Halloween) and mine was a Siamese twin, which I pulled off with a split blazer (Andrew in an accompanying blazer) to much avail. Other costumes, however, were considerably funnier; like Big Lou and Zale as ‘Peter vs. The Chicken’ or Rod as a take-out food container. Either way, sakeoke was a HUGE party full of kareoke partying goodness. Oh, yeah, and Sam came up from UTSA to party with us, which is always fun. Yeah, he had to fake being a pledge to get past the Tiny’s security guys, but after that (somewhat) sketch encounter, everything was smooth sailing.
To digress, though, I’ve gotta mention the main event of the past month: HALLOWEEN. Being a fraternity member, I expect (and, to a lesser extent, feel entitled to) an obligatory Halloween party on the last night of October, regardless of whether I’m still a pledge or not. Considering this, and the fact that they wanted a party anyhow, ZBT obliged; providing drinks and a DJ……………but that was it. No decorations, no lighting, little planning of execution was put in place for Halloween, and instead, the helming of clearing, organizing, tarping and buying stuff for the basement was trustingly put in our (Ben, Andrew, and I) hands by Andrew Kenward, who, despite all my complaining about no planning about a sentence ago, actually had stuff planned pretty well.
Anyhow, after a few hours of driving from Goodwill to Target to Party City to Spirit to Target to Home Depot and back with Ben, Andrew, and Jarrett (who was with us to coordinate a Willy Wonka costume with our Oompa-Loompa getup) we arrived at the ZBT basement with tarps, nails, lights, tape, and every material (both disposable and valuable) ready to build a haunted house in the downstairs library.
We worked through Thursday night all the way until Friday morning around 8am (at which point I had to go to my RTF discussion section; which, while I enjoy discussion, I resent my exceedingly poor scheduling!). The rest of Friday was peppered with haunted house building and miscellaneous instructions from Kenward to help us clear fire code; but by the end of the day we not only had a legitimate haunted house up for visitation in the basement (with blade-removed working Skilsaw and electric fence within it) but a clear tarp-laden, neon spray-painted Pat O’s bar room with black lights lining the ceiling; illuminating (most) peoples’ teeth, eyes, and brightly-colored clothing. This isn’t even to mention the big portion of the basement, which was adorned with a shitload of red lights (which the DJ noted as both ‘legit’ and ‘the shit’). Basically, the party was crunk because of all the work we put into it. Of course it could’ve gone on without our efforts (it is, after all, a fraternity house) but I don’t think it would’ve kept the attention of near as many people for near as long.
With all this semi-bitching about the setup, I haven’t even mentioned the party, my bad. Essentially, it was completely and utterly legit/awesome. I met a shitload of chicks, reunited my acquaintances with a few Zetas, and at one point forgot the names of even people that I feel like I should know pretty well already. But blah, it was a fun time.
Basically, Halloween was awesome. Oh yeah, and Sam came back up from UTSA again for Halloween, too. It’s basically all been great, save waking up Saturday morning at 8:30am (after arriving at the dorm around 4:30-5ish) to meet the fam.
Such is the life of an awesome person, I suppose. Here’s to more nightly exploits.
