Off Campus Friends...

Getting attacked by Shrillz

...are the best people ever. They really are. As a junior living on campus, especially as an RA, it can be difficult to remember what it's like to talk to people that aren't forced to interact with me for work/caretaking reasons. It's also nice to be completely unfiltered, without having to worry about my job or being a role model (if that's even a thing).

Chris and I hanging out at his place

They also give me a lot of perspective. I can see the different things that they are doing with their lives: being in a band, student teaching in Texas, dating, doing dishes, and all sorts of other crazy things. It's weird though, I am rarely jealous of their lives (although I am so incredibly proud of each and every one of them). While I would love to light a candle every once and a while or blast music loudly, I wouldn't trade what I have for anything (as cheesy as that sounds).

My off-campus friends are supportive as all hell, and I could not love them more if I tried. Thanks for being around guys (especially because I feel like most of you are reading this)!

DJ Slingshot

Last weekend, all of my friends and I went to go support my friend Erich (DJ Slingshot), while he DJ-ed. Due to a large throng of sorority girls, he didn't win, but we all had fun anyway. Here are some of our pictures.

                                                (Danielle, my roommate, and I)













(From Left: Dan, Danielle, me, Erich, Shrillz, Christie, Maddie)

(Me and Erich/DJ Slingshot) 

Prank Wars: Revenge Time

My counter-prank on Shrillz (because she turned my things upside down,) was to newspaper her bathroom. It had to be done quickly, because it was a Friday and I had things to do. Plus, she was only going to be gone for a short period of time.

Unfortunately, she came back to let her boyfriend in right as I was starting, but hopefully she didn't see a lot. In a weird way, it was almost better that she saw, so then she knew, when she went back to eat dinner in our school's cafeteria, that her bathroom was being completely destroyed somehow. Good stuff.

Because of this, I decided to do a little more. Instead of just completely covering her bathroom with newspaper, I did that and then took all of the sheets off of her bed and replaced them with newspaper. I also stacked a bunch of random things from her room on various bathroom fixtures.

Fortunately, Shrillz took a photo, since I have no camera.

(You can even see her microwave, full of random things, chilling out on the toilet.)

Prank Wars

     My roommate, Emily (aka Shrillz or Skrillex) and I have a prank war going on. And I kind of love it. A lot of my other roommates become a little tiffed when pranks are pulled on them, so I am thankful that Shrillz and I have found one another in this brand new way. Radical.

     My first prank, which ultimately began our prank war, was to stick these "bird notes" (little pieces of Vera Bradley paper with birds on them that aren't sticky) all over her things. Finally a use for stationery that no one really wants  (not a real picture, but pretty close).

This prank sounds extremely tame. And not gonna lie, it was pretty harmless as far as pranks go. However, I managed to place over 200 papers in her things, in spots ranging from out in the open to hidden in her socks and shoes. She is still finding them, and this happened two-ish weeks ago.

She has decided to retaliate by turning everything I own upside-down and inside-out. Classic. And super super annoying. I was/am extremely impressed and amazed at her pranking talent.

 The photos don't really do this prank justice, since everything looks pretty much the same unless you stare super hard at them.

It is so on. Since she reads this blog, I can't tell you what my next prank will be or when it will happen, but you will definitely see photos of the after-effects.

Prank wars make life fun. Engage in them.