Saturday, October 17- Wing Party
  Saturday evening about 7:30, many girls from my wing, about 20 or so, left our safe and secure campus and ventured into Hyde Park.  There, we painted pottery at the Kiln, a paint your own pottery store.  I sat down with Beth, Sara, Melissa, and Lauren, our RA, and then wandered around trying to find something to paint.
    Now, here is where everything becomes top secret.  See, I picked out a cup and saucer to paint, but, I'm going to give it to my mom for her birthday, which is January 23.   That's quite awhile from now, so, shhh.  Don't tell her, as I've told her that I painted something, but, it broke.
    Anyway, I picked out a normal size cup and saucer to paint, totaling $9.  (The $5 paint fee that was charged each of us was paid for by the school, because it was a wing activity and it kept us from drinking on a weekend night.  Have to love that.)  I decided that, since mom has redone our kitchen in a sunflower pattern, I'd paint sunflowers on the cup and saucer.  Have you ever tried to draw petals up from the bottom of a cup?  It's very difficult, let me tell you.  However, it was also very soothing to draw and paint it.
    I ended up finishing earlier than I thought (40 minutes earlier than I needed to) and I went back to the dorm early to help set up for our After The Kiln Party.  Lauren mentioned that another girl and I, Elizabeth who lives directly across from me, should get a grocery cart out of her room and then take some of the stuff from her refrigerator with us to the chapel in Kuhlman where we were going to hold our little after party.  Elizabeth and I went into Lauren's room and, sure enough, there's a Kroger's grocery cart sitting in the middle of her room.
    I wheeled the cart down the hall and into the elevator (talk about feeling a little weird) and went to the second floor chapel, which, by the way, is directly next to Father LaRocca's room. (Throughout the evening, jokes were made about how he might walk in and see me, but, he never did.  Not like he doesn't see me around campus enough. I swear, he's got radar as to where I'm going to be.)  The rest of the girls showed up after Lauren, Elizabeth, and I set out the food.
    Lauren had posted a sign up sheet for what food we'd like and she bought whatever we wanted.  So, there were pickles, cup cakes, grape soda (yes, soda, Heather), and Mike and Ikes.  A committee was formed to do games and they had us playing things like Angels and Assassins (if you don't know what it is, sorry, I'm not taking the time to explain) and a game in which people sat in a line and attempted to draw a picture on the person in front of her back.  (If you're confused, don't worry- I explained that very badly.)
    After mass killing during Angels and Assassins and the Pickles team lost during the back drawing game and after we all were stuffed to the gills with food, we decided it was time to play Hide and Seek on the Academic Mall.  We realized that yes, it was chilly, and yes, it was 1 AM in the morning, but, who cared?  So, we all suited up and trooped out to play.  I just observed and was an official judge with another girl who didn't want to play, Ashley, as the rest of our wing ran around playing Hide and Seek and whisper tag (which I'm also not explaining).
    Somewhere along the line, we began to talk to the drunks that stumbled along down the Mall. One of these drunken students was my suite mate who actually stopped, along with her friend, to play tag with us.  Another person who stopped by to talk to us was our peer adviser's friend, Jason.  She was holding him up and, though he attempted to meet all of us and know our names, he kept forgetting Lauren's name until she divided it up for him- Laur-en.  Lauren then told him that we were a wing of lesbians and Amy and Heather decided to demonstrate by Amy climbing on Heather's lap.
    After we played with a few more drunks, we decided to go back to our rooms because it was awfully chilly and late (2 AM).