The first day started like any other Monday in Valdosta...well, except for the torrential downpours, but you have to expect a short monsoon season being so close to the Everglades. So after braving the weather for class and food, I couldn't got take a "rainy day nap"...i had to go steal a kitchen and try to cook. Now, this cooking expedition wasn't without justified cause, we were planning a hall cookie decorating social for that night, and on the miniscule budget we were presented with, the most economical solution was to use dorm kitchens to bake the cookies ourselve. In dorm kitchens. With just me and Anna. Anyone else seeing the first recipe for disaster this week? Regardless, we went over to Georgia Hall (our building lacks the kitchen feature, I believe becasue we are the nicely renovated dorm and they would rather not risk burning us to the ground just yet) and started to make the "slice and bake" sugar cookies. FYI, those things really aren't slice and bake...but several hours and a few less brain cells later ( i think those electric ovens were somehow leaking carbon monoxide into that room and making up even more giddy) we had about 50 pretty round cookies, and 10 blobs from my first attempt. We hid those at the bottom of the bowl and the social went off without a problem. But the week didn't end there...
My next mission of the week was to organize our EEE class' Trick or Treat room for Thursday in the University Union. Well, when I was asked by my professor to be in charge of this last week, it was cool because I felt all important...little did I know how much of a pain in the ass it is to lead the future leaders.. I spent 3 days collecting money (it's only a buck each people, you can part with it), shopping for decorations, and making them. So Thursday came around and the class was supposed to show up either to decorate or to hand out candy in costume later. First of all, if you haven't done any of the work to start with, don't complain that what other people did do doesn't look pretty...I managed to terrify half of my class by making a noose (it doesn't work...) and all I want to know is how, when there are 3 guys making spaghetti, they can burn it! That has to be one of the worse smells ever! Overall, the room turned out great, and people woud come specifically to our room to feel the human brains, hearts, and eyeballs...Tourturing 7 year olds by telling them those were the organs of the guy lying on the floor will keep them in nightmares for months. Gotta love being a future leader...
So finally its Halloween night and I have to do something festive with people...damn the obligation to be social. I haven't had a nap in a week because I've been so busy and now all i want to do is sleep! But instead 8 of us decide to do Halloween country style, in honor of our new life in Valdosta. We go out to a Haunted corn maze...sounds smart right? Well our group keeps winding around and around the same end of the maze and they refuse to go the other way towards the exit, so getting sick of it, Anna and I sneak off and go out on our own. After sufficiently checking out every part of the maze, except of course the way out, Anna and I decide its time for a Halloween prank. I pull out my cell and call Leigha and start crying to her about how I lost Anna (she got stolen by someone in the corn stalks) and now I'm all alone and I need them to come find me. Then I start to scream and make it sound like I dropped my phone and hang up...we heard them one row over and start to run the other way. Now, of course everyone in the group knows this is a joke...everyone except Lizzy...she takes Leigha's phone and calls me back like 3 times, but I put my ringer on silent...the poor girl was spazzing! So Anna and I continue on our tour of the maze when we start to be followed by these 3 guys...none of them in costume....they have realized how easy it is to scare Anna and made that their mission for the next 5 minutes...she's so easy to terrify! Suddenly we rounded a corner and found our group again...Lizzy was so realized that I found Anna safe...we didn't have the heart to tell her it was all a joke...And then we met the mad scientist and his roommate the "Scream" monster, who promised to lead us out of the maze. Never listen to the people hired to jump out of a haunted house to help you leave...we went down so many dead ends and chased the scientist as he ran away from us until I finally linked arms with them and started to chat until they took us out of there. That's the best way to deal with haunted houses!
My night finally ended with a noodle run to SuperWalmart with Anna and Lizzy. Now I'm going back to listening to my Christmas carols and reminding myself that most holidays don't suck this much. I mean honestly, who comes up with the idea of spending a whole month giving people free candy while trying to scare the shit out of them. This is soooo American.
