Hey Hey- - Well I told myself that tonight would be the night that I revamped my life on deviant, even though when I look back on all the crap I did since June there's just no possible way I could. The first week of classes just ended, but I've been at MICA for 2 weeks now and for the most part I'm feeling pretty good...
Going back a few weeks- I started out here in Baltimore 9am on August 21st as a freshman Orientation Leader- pretty much 12 hours or so after I got back from camp. The woods to a city.. it was a crazy transformation, and to be honest it wasn't that hard either. I thought I'd be like disoriented or some crap, but hey whatever... so there were about 35 people from the school hired to be Orientation Leaders, and just for the week we had to be here and do our job we also had to get to know each other and above all, work like a team. I was pretty scared to say the least when I looked at my group. The first 4 days were our "training"... we pretty much hung out, got to know the schedule and then made a bunch of signs- like 'welcome to mica' poop and what have you- plus we got split up into sub-groups to take turns operating the event for every evening (I was put in the BBQ group for the last night of orientation). So during all the sign-making and everything I got to know a guy named Andy who is also a painting major and just to point out is crazy awesome... I mean I've seen the guy around and even had classes but we hung out all week- we were kinda like, the anti-social kids. Plus we were put in the middle of RA training so everyone was always hyper excited for the freshman to move in. Yeah so the first night was awesome- we all got 10 freshman and had to play like getting-to-know-you games with them... mine? they all hated life and were dying to leave. Ah, art kids, it makes me enjoy being hired for this sorta thing. A lot of them were really punked out and dismal looking- I'm anticipating this year should be good.
So the first night was like.. um not worth mentioning- the 2nd night was karaoke... and although I wasn't really in charge of anything, my roommate Ann and I crashed the party and pretty much just made asses of ourselves. It was awesome- we both sang Bon Jovi and then later on, all these New Jersey kids were like, rock on dude... I was like, yeah, New Jersey. woot.
yes, and I was sober.
The 3rd night I wasn't really sure what I was getting myself into- ok so its this MICA tradition they refer to as XXXtreme Bingo... and one can only imagine what is involved... pretty much its under this huge tent and there are tables everywhere except the middle which is a stage. The DJ is over in another corner and the MC (otherwise known as the ball-puller and the prize giver guy) hangs out with him... and so our job as OL's was like, go dance slutty and just get the freshman involved... so the DJ played all this dance music, and yes he even played some Michael Jackson my very favorite, and I must even admit that I felt uber slutty. Even tho as a Jersey girl it was like a "1" on the slut-scale. But I had this miniskirt on and my clunky mary-janes with knee highs with a tube top, pearls and a canary yellow scally cap.. oh and huge elton john sun glasses, yeah I was awesome... (actually I got Andy to pick me up because I felt awkward walking 10 blocks through Baltimore to get there, and 100 feet into my walk to his car some redneck was like, hey hey hey looking for a good time? and I'm like, yes, I'm a prostitute, lets get it on. the end.) and everyone was out of control.. there were 2 male strippers there wearing like vinyl thongs, hahaha I won't really get into that. But its like 4 hours of sweaty dancing, pretending you're having a good time sorta thing. I even got the freshman to dance up on stage, yeah I was abusing my power but it was awesome.
I guess to conclude this whole shindig was the BBQ but I'm not going to lie- I didn't stay for the whole thing. Too many annoying people were there.. its true. So I'm actually going to bed now but I'll probably end up writing another entry shortly about my time in school... because although its been a week I have to admit its been a fun-filled one.
goodnight.