Interesting Things Overheard at Softball Practice:

"Oh yeah, I got the book in prison. They don't care if you take it."


Speaking of softball practice, I came home from practice today all exhausted and sun-fried. Turned on the TV to recover and stumbled upon a Sorority Life marathon on MTV. Three hours later, I'm totally hooked. Damn MTV and their reality shows. Damn them all to hell.

How could I not like it? It completely confirms all my suspicions of the lameness of sororities- all the stupid rules and rituals, the total cattiness, and the blowing up of completely non-important things into something that's totally, like, oh-my-God.

And the story line they have going is absolutely stupendous. Basically every episode goes like this- one of the interchangeable curly blonde haired pledges goes out partying, gets way too drunk at a club and finds herself backing her bony white ass up with a bunch of random meathead guys (Editor's note- they've mentioned a club that everyone goes to called "The Graduate" and if it's anything like "The Graduate" that was in IV when I was at school-and I think it is- bad, bad things do happen), all in front of other Sorority Sisters who stand in complete disapproval and spend the night cattily whispering back and forth about the shocking behavior of the Pledges. This is followed by a meeting between the poor beleaguered Pledge Coordinators and the blonde party girls (along with their two party-girl pledge partners in crime) in which the Pledge Coordinators tells them that "other Sisters" have been talking and complaining about the "shocking" behavior of the group. The Pledge Coordinators then goes on to tell them that by their behavior they are sullying the image of the Sorority and not representing. Further shocking behavior could lead them to the most horrible of results- not being asked to join the Sorority.

Besides the obvious fact that it's so completely obvious that the four girls who are always in trouble should just go tell everyone to go fuck themselves, there's the silliness of the whole thing. All the Sister's are constantly worried about how the behavior of the girls could sully the image and reputation of the Sorority but I gotta wonder this- what image and reputation? Do sorority's have reputations? Granted, I was defiantly a GDI (God-damn Independent) and adamantly anti-Greek, but I always thought the reputations of sororities were pretty much r what the girls are doing- partying and ho'ing around. Remember the old joke, "what's the mating call of a Sorority Sister? 'I'm so drunk'"? If I remember correctly, the reputations of each Sorority were basically along these lines- the super hot blonde sororities, the not as quite super hot blonde sororities, the still hot but not as hot sororities, the we're not nearly hot enough for all the other sororities, and, finally, the we're ugly but us ugly girls should have a sorority too sororities.

All I can say is you go Jordan and get down with your bad-self….