Sandy.

Hey,

Hurricane Sandy has come and gone. My town was not really in the path of destruction, just some heavy rain and a lot of trees stand without leaves. However, New Jersey is basically underwater,  New York subways are completely flooded in, Ocean City is covered in 6 feet of sand, and Chincoteague Island is basically no more. Seaside (where they happen to shoot 'the Jersey Shore' series) has floated out to the ocean-- it really looks devastating. I hope that if you are on the east coast that you are safe.

We had two days off of school because of the state of emergency. Me and my roommate went to wal-mart to prepare for Sandy, but all of the water, chips, milk, candles, and bread were gone. We tried to get beer (idk, my roommate insisted that beer is helpful in natural disasters but I really didn't think it would go there) but all of the liquor stores were closed. People were in a rush to get inside, banging on the glass windows, so me and Erin decided to avoid that situation. With all this preparation and frantically running around town for supplies, we barely got any of the storm. Basically just hard rain. Didn't even lose power.

Today I got my first bill for verizon internet. It was $150, I nearly fainted. I couldn't believe all of the charges that they had on the bill, things I didn't even remember talking about. There was thirty dollars for this, and an extra 40 for that, and menial charges of 10 dollars. Me and my roommate were on the phone with verizon for two hours trying to figure out what the hell happened. We ended up getting the bill down to $86, but I'm still dissatisfied. So I'm taking the bill to my boyfriends mother where apparently she's great at getting verizon to do whatever she wants. She once got 4 plane tickets to Germany for $20. I just want to warn everybody that verizon is terrible. If you have any suggestions for other internet services, please tell me and tell me soon.

Back to school tomorrow. Please be safe wherever you are.

-Lou

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Busy B.

Hey,

I've been really busy but I definitely want to update my blog. It's very therapeutic for me to write everything out.

So pledging is going ok. Not good, but not bad. One girl already quit because somebody in our pledge class called her the N word... I know, charming right? It makes me nervous too. And also, a lot of us are butting heads a lot and different decisions we have to make as a group. There's definitely a power struggle and I feel like I'm playing mediator most of the time. We're supposed to make a scrapbook,  interview all of the sisters at their home, create a plaque with all these different insignias on it, and on top of all that we have to memorize every sisters big and their animal family... by saturday. As if that's not enough add all of my homework and work.

But I'm enjoying it anyway. I wish that our pledge class was more cohesive but that's ok. We haven't got our Bigs yet but I'm eagerly awaiting mine. We got clues from our bigs as to who they are, but I'm still in the dark about it. I think I'm in the giraffe family but really it's all up in the air.

That's about it for now. Will ensue with pictures at another time!

-Love,

Lou