Taylor

A last ditch effort to survive

I bounded from the bus, ran up three flights of stairs, and quickly locked my door.  I kept my shoes and jacket on as I wrapped myself up in a blanket and prayed it would not come.  I took my vitamins, drank some orange juice, made some tea, washed my hands. And then I washed them again.  I breathed in cautiously and kept to myself. I vacuumed, scrubbed, wiped, sprayed, and I even said a few words to God, but still it came.

I woke up on Monday with the sniffles. And I mean the watery eyes, runny nose, sore throat, why am I even alive and do I have to go to class sniffles.

Like a kindergarten classroom, the residence halls are a breeding ground for foreign germs.  This past week was literally a domino effect of one girl after the other coming down with some form of a cold.  And it takes no prisoners. All our conversation has revolved around football, the temperature of the room and how much Dayquil is in our medicine cabinet.

I wish I could offer you some piece of advice on how to avoid the campus epidemic that is rumored to have reached the apartments already but I can’t.  Most likely you’ll find yourself standing in someone’s room decked out in winter attire with a mug of black apricot tea at least once before December. But your hat probably won’t be as awesome as mine.

Minus the earrings I’m a hottie

Unless you’re a guy- on both counts. Not only do you tend to have amazing hat collections, but while us ladies have been pulling out the sweaters I’ve noticed you are still in shorts.  So I guess if I had to offer some advice, it would be to become a boy. Then you wouldn’t get sick and you’d be warm all the time.

I wonder…would I make a cute male? I imagine with the right stache anything is possible…

So on Thursday night my RA hosted a hall event. And I will admit that I went into it with a little hesitation. After all, there aren’t that many people between E and W of the 2nd floor. But it turned out to be really awesome. We picked up the details for the Extreme Scavenger Hunt at 6pm and quickly made our way to have dinner and get started. We had until 1am, but time was pretty tight considering we had to upload pictures and videos, be in front of a clock at 11:11, and prove we went to the T-Pain Hawkapalooza concert at 8.
The rules were pretty basic:
No cars.
Stick together.
No harassing citizens
No breaking laws
Follow the traffic rules
Have fun

There were a total of 66 tasks, worth a range of points from 1-10. We completed 51 of them and came in first place with a 25 point lead. Of course we embarrassed ourselves in the process, made people feel incredibly awkward, and almost hurt ourselves. ALMOST.

Check it out for yourself. 🙂

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