Homecoming

This past weekend was Homecoming here at SMU.  This year I was the Homecoming Chair for my sorority. Before last week, I had no idea all of the things Homecoming consisted of. For instance, community service day, Peruna and window painting, field day, all night float building and the quiz bowl. I really thought it was great how the King and Queen are not only based on peer votes but also how your organization does throughout the entire week, that way it is not solely a popularity contest. All in all, my sorority did not place in the Queen competition but... we did place first in float building and in the Peruna painting but it did not come easy. We could not catch a break--first, our Peruna got stolen. Girls spent 24 hours making that only for it to go M.I.A. three hours later. Before we could hang our reward signs (which we immediately ran to Kinkos to make upon hearing of the kidnapping), Peruna was saved by an RA in McElvaney. Apparently some intelligent freshman boy thought it would be hilarious to steal it and then clearly did not know what to do with it so he left it in an elevator. After the Peruna incident, the fraternity we were paired with for the week got into a little trouble and by orders of their Nationals, were not allowed to participate in the rest of the week with us. This was especially unfortunate because we mainly needed them to help us with building the float, which had not started yet.  Luckily, a couple of the guys still helped out a lot with the float, even though they could not participate in the other events anymore and it all worked out. My "Everest" that week was definitely the giant Stay Puft Marshmallow Man which I constructed from chicken wire and pomp, he must of been at least 8 feet tall, and I was very proud to see him on the Boulevard on game day.  Homecoming was a lot of fun and a tradition of SMU that I love!

National Boss Day

Tomorrow (Oct. 16th), is national boss day. I am making my roommate call me boss and she is making me call her master. Who ever thought of all these random "national holidays"... they are all really silly and I wonder if any of them are true, either way I think they are fun here are some that I have found: 

1.   Jan. 25th- OFFICIAL Opposite Day

2.  Jan. 27th- Thomas Crapper Day (The man who invented the toliet)

3.  Feb. 10th- National Umbrella Day

4.  March 5th- Multiple Personalities Day

5.  March 22nd- National Goof-off Day

 

6.  May 10th- Clean up your room Day

7.  July 1st- National Television Heritage Day, also Build a Scarecrow Day

8.  Aug. 11th- Presidential Joke Day

Talent!

 This woman, Amy Walker, is an amazing actress. Maybe it is just because I can only do one accent when I think I am doing a different one every-time, but I think she is so great! All of these voices sound real... This, along with singing, is a talent a really wish I had!  

Palin Bingo

I heard of this website and thought it was hilarious....

It's poking fun at Sarah Palin and how she will repeat phrases that do not exactly make her come off as intelligent. There is a lot political satire out there right now (i.e. SNL), however, I think this is one of the best!

Palinbingo.com