Theme Song: "Behind Blue Eyes" - Limp Bizkit
Since today's a Holy Day and all, the entire Band gets to sleep in until about 11:30AM. Sweet! Instead of going back to the Servo for breakfast, I just decide to warm up some leftover Pizza House pizza in the Microfridge. Note to self: EWW! They need to put an expiration date on their pizza boxes. For real.
We get A LOT of work done on the Musselman Practice Field, completely learning (all music & 27 field formations) and performing two out of the three songs in our halftime show. That's gotta be some kind of record! WOO! And as usual, our section, the Clarinets, does it perfectly every time. Yeah, clarinets!
Since the clarinets are given permission to relax while the other side of the form made adjustments, we decide to have some fun. Jeff and Jen (our resident cheerleaders) hold a Clarinet Cartwheel Competition and Guess What?! I WIN! Oh yeah, who's your daddy? I just have to show off my ninja skills; however, if any of them ask me where I learned it I'll just reply, "I used to be go-go dancer. Ooah-ooah!" C'mon, it's not a complete lie!
Oh yes, now let's get to the real story. All day long the first-year students have been whispering among themselves, trying to guess what the "Social Activities" scheduled for 9:30PM actually are... and I hate surprises. I say this because if I don't know what it is, more than likely I'll be disappointed when it's finally revealed to me. Well, as expected, it turns out to be a Scavenger Hunt. Whee.
Don't get me wrong, this isn't your grandfather's scavenger hunt; some of the items on the list include "ghost sand" from the hockey rink, a tour guide, an RA or OL, Scrapple and a takeout menu from the Lincoln Diner, river water, mozarella sticks from the Pizza House, roadkill, a 40-oz beer bottle, a single grape, a king size candy bar, et cetera. Beforehand Dr. Peddell warns us that students have been caught and arrested for taking certain things (one year it was a shopping cart from WalMart), so we all know to be extra sneaky-sneaky. Amy (clarinetist) is our team captain and our group's members were Amber, Maggie, Julie, and... Brunette with glasses (*update: It's Tina!*), so let's just call her Daria for now.
I surprise myself when we (Amber, Amy, and I) arrive at the Lincoln Diner. We order the Scrapple (which is EVERY possible part of a pig) but the restaurant doesn't MAKE takeout menus; they only have regular laminated ones. So... I create a diversion: I pretend to be looking through a KMART catalog, wait for one of the waitors to turn around and for the other to go to kitchen AND then, SNATCH! I have to stand right next to them and quickly swipe one of those huge menus and stuff it under my shirt. What a rush! I'm just surprised I didn't get caught because my body looked a little box-shaped (just a little) with a menu under my shirt. Oh well, Go Us!
As soon as we get out of the restaurant we sprint to Amy's single (no roommate) dorm, located right across the street from Huber, my dorm. Amy's room is very comfortable and spacious; she must've drawn a great number in the housing lottery last Spring. On her wall hang both a huge poster of the Muppets and a clarinet wall clock; books from the Harry Potter series fill her shelf. Since one of the Scavenger Hunt items is a picture of every senior in Band, Amy decides to bring her entire laptop back to Schmucker since her printer refuses to print off her digital candids from last year.
While Amy continues to fight with her laptop and external hard drive, I volunteer to get the king-sized candy bar from 7-Eleven. I run to Sevs and back to find... no one. So logically I go ahead to Schmucker and they arrive shortly after me (apparently they were driving around searching for me since I did get a LITTLE lost).
All the teams bring their items forward: Jeff's team holds up their roadkill stuffed in a ziploc baggy; our girl Julie eats the Lincoln Diner scrapple (which is beyond disgusting) so our team gets 9 extra points. What happened next is so funny, though. After Julie eats the meat, Amy offers her a Lion King cookie and Julie refuses. LOL! "Sure, so you'll just snarf down some nasty-ass Scrapple but you won't eat a cookie." Crazy Julie.
Once the dust settles, our team ties for second place out of eight teams. In case you're wondering, Team Jeff won! It's great 'cause they are only other ones who stole a menu too. Straight-Up Gangsta, y'all.
I get back to the dorm around 12:45AM; surprisingly, I feel perfectly safe walking around this campus at night. I settle into my room, which is getting more and more comfortable (and cool) every day, and fall asleep watching Gothika starring Halle Berry, Robert Downey Jr., and Penelope Cruz.
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