April Fools Day

This week was busy at the SMU Chi O house.  Our National Consultant was in town to check up on the chapter and make sure everything was in ship shape. Since I am on the Executive Board, I was in several meetings on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and this morning.  I learned a lot of handy tips to make my chapter announcements more interesting and engaging, and also about marketing the SMU chapter more effectively to the community, faculty, other sororities, PNMs, and our sisters.

While a majority of the week was spent dealing with more serious matters and attempting to impress the National Consultant, we allowed ourselves one day of fun: April Fools Day, which was on Monday.  Around the Chi O house, you are never safe from a good humored prank.  April fools day or not, there is a core group of girls who are repeat offenders to committing pranks.

My friend Katherine and I have been in a "prank war" with my suite mate Mary.  We are constantly taking turns doing something mischievous to the other. Mary has filled my water bottles with mouth wash, contaminated my Diet Coke bottle with vinegar (it ACTUALLY tasted rancid...), and hidden baby dolls in my room.  To clarify why she has baby dolls in the first place and to maybe make her seem less weird, my friend Kate dressed up as Angelina Jolie for a date dash and brought several baby dolls with her as a part of her costume.  The babies were just sitting in her closet (creepy), so we decided to put them to good use.

In return to Mary's jabs, Katherine and I have put the dolls in her backpack so when she gets to class she has to take it out in front of everyone, strapped them into her car, and put strange liquids in her water bottle.  We decided that we needed to do something on April Fools to redeem ourselves, since we had less pranks done than her.

Of course, we wanted to mess with more people than Mary.  In the Chi O house kitchen, we label food that we buy for ourselves at the grocery store and put them in the cabinet.  We labeled several cans of cat food with Kate's name and put them in the cabinet as our first prank.  All day we overheard people saying things like, "Kate is the one feeding the ferrel cats..."  We also bought a sparkling laxative drink and labeled it with our friend Meredith's name.  She did not notice it all day, but others did..

Katherine and I struggled thinking of a good enough prank to do to Mary all day.  It needed to be bigger than anything else we did before.  After Mary heard about the things we did to other people, she began to get nervous about what we were going to do to her.  Once we realized that she was looking out for something, we kept telling her things to make her more nervous.  She spent all day expecting something to happen, but nothing ever did.  It was a lame prank on our part, but we figured it was better than nothing.

XO Love and Mine,

Kat