Once you go Rebecca Black you can never go back

Title because it's Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday?

Happy Friday, all. We made it through another week of college. Well, I think we did. I made it anyway, which is what counts.

A brief week summary (keep an eye out for the two links I've provided!):

Last Friday besides all of my technical difficulties in posting up my blog, I went to a cute farmer’s market across the street and got three orchard-fresh apples and four cookies. I don’t know if you have had orchard-fresh apples, but they’re worth the hyphen and extra three syllables. They look good, they taste amazing; they SMELL like heaven. I’m not going to real heaven but orchard-fresh apples are close enough. Promise. (Tell me how heaven is though. Since Nicole and I are outliving the rest of you, being vegetarian and all. Of course we’re all pretty atheist so probably none of us will get there. Jason would have except he’s a boozehound. Google it!)

Sunday it was 9/11, which is a bigger deal here than where the rest of you are because the Pentagon was hit ten years ago. However, my professor (the legit ambassador-CIA husband one) wasn’t worried, and she knows enough to convince me of my safety. All was well, but they shut the metro down as a precaution. So my roommate, two friends and myself took the school shuttle to Tenleytown, which means nothing to you, but it’s a shopping area closer to the hustle and bustle of D.C.. We went to a consignment (thrift) store and I got a pair of shoes for $10. On the way home we stopped in an Asian market and got this green tea that’s supposed to make you lose weight (clear all the bad shit out of you, literally; be near a bathroom, hahaha) but I haven’t taken it yet and I don’t know if I will.

A: It was actually nothing like this.

Anyway cool D.C. story- saw Secret Service! Escorting a guy out of……… Chipotle! Yes. They were escorting some dude out of Chipotle. We were walking down the street and this giant man in a black suit was like “Excuse me, ladies, can you wait here please?” And we were like WTF and scared as balls (see A.), because we had no idea what was going on. Turns out it was just a high profile guy in need for some good ol’ fashion Chih-pah-tle. So some other giant guys escorted him into a black Suburban (that’s how you know it’s Secret Service) and then they told us we could go ahead. We saw them kind of chuckling at us because we probably looked scared as fuck (see B.).

B. Yeah no, nothing like this either.

Sunday was a busy day… that eventful trip and then I went to a meeting about joining a fraternity. Considering how much I hate objectifying women and drinking alcohol, and that I made my roommate this sign when SHE went to a frat party (yes that is a pool of "raped"), I should seem like someone who wants to distance themselves from fraternities. Which is why when I read Jason’s story about joining a frat, I was like “get ready to be one up-ed”, since I lack the proper equipment to join (being female) and hate the very reason frats exist.

However, the spoiler story is that it’s a co-ed frat and it’s mostly girls. So I’m really not that special. Anyway it’s called Alpha Phi Omega (APO), a community service frat where we basically go around saving the world but having a lot of fun while doing so. I had an interview Thursday night that I think went really well and turned in an application a few days before that. I think I’m well qualified with the whole HRC/ Corazon/ fundraising/ leadership training experience I have, and everyone seems friendly, so as long as I came off as friendly I think I’ve got a good chance of being rushed. I find out later today whether or not I’m in, so I’ll keep you posted. If you care or if you don’t.

Monday night a few friends and I watched the GOP/ tea party (not worth the capitalization) debate. All of the liberals were like

C. "What, what what are you doing?"

“They’re such stupid betches!” (see C.) and we invited a couple of conservatives so we could point and laugh. The whole time, my friend Denis was tweeting sassy things to the candidates, so it was a roaring great time. Well, besides the fact that half the program was Republicans trashing Obama and everyone clapping. There’s a professor at my school who has, for over thirty years, correctly guessed whether the incumbent president will keep the office or not. He has this system of “key things” in a presidency, like absence of a major scandal, military success, that sort of thing, and he’s predicted that Obama will be re-elected. So that’s cool.

On Thursday I survived another bout of weight training and watched She’s the Man (with Amanda Bynes, yes, that movie) and then had my frat interview.

And the 18^th (this Sunday) I’m seeing Jane Goodall!! Can’t wait.

Anyway, love you all and can’t wait to experience another epic week of blogging!

-Rachael

Update: I got into Alpha Phi! (=