I’ll spare you the long story about my lack of internet while visiting relatives and then finding myself in a Target Starbucks catching up on correspondence. On my way out I spotted a shirt in the girls’ department. It had a giant anchor on it. It was the perfect shirt for a Delta Gamma or an Alpha Sigma Tau legacy.
A few minutes later, I walked over to a Michael’s looking for some artificial flowers. I didn’t find what I was looking for. And in the few minutes I was in the store, the skies opened up and a cold rain started to fall. As I noticed the rain, I also saw a bin full of packaged note cards. One package had a key, another a fleur-de-lis. Kappa notecards no doubt! And then I was on a quest. Waiting for the rain to stop, I walked around the store looking for other sorority symbols. In about 20 minutes, I found all these treasures. “Yes, I am a little odd,” I wanted to say to the few people who gave me sideways glances as I kept taking pictures throughout the store.
Sad to say, I did not find one Pi Phi angel. And as I’ve been saying to anyone who’ll listen, this is a terrific year for owls.
Alas, I lost some pictures in the whole process, including penguins and pandas. But I’ve come too far and wasted too much time to let this post go. Thank you for indulging me. (And if you made it this far, I’m sure you’ll love my latest time waster, set to debut next week sometime!)
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