Time for you to learn about another catagory of people that pisses Eric off immensly: People who don't mind their own damn business. People who take it upon themselves to police everyone around them when it doesn't concern them in the slightest. Basically, tattle-tales piss me off. A lot. First of all, at the cast party, there was drinking. Yes, underage people drank. But you know what? It's a cast party. We're in college. We were mature and safe about it. We were celebrating our freaking musical going so well. And then a certain member of the cast, Mara, decided that it was wrong of us to be drinking at a cast party, so she decided to tell her boyfriend Anthony, who, in turn, decided to turn everyone at the cast party in to the Dana faculty for a violation of the alcohol policy.
This is freaking ridiculous. First of all, this party was off campus. It was in Omaha in a private home and the only connection to the school was the fact that Dana students were there. So, right there, it doesn't break the school's alcohol policy. Apperantly, however, RA's have some no alcohol policy. They are supposed to be role-models. Thus, legal RA's can't drink with underage RA's, and underage RA's can't drink at all. This is where people got busted. Emily and Kjar are RA's, and Katrina, Tabby, and Scott are future RA's. Apperantly, future RA's are still bound by this alcohol policy (Which I think is extremely fucked up and unfair). So, Mara got all holy and decided that these people needed to be punished. But she didn't do anything herself, she went to Anthony to do it for her. Now, Mara is considered by all of us to be a friend, yet she didn't tell any of us she dissapproved of our drinking, she didn't warn us that we shouldn't be doing it. She didn't say anything to us at all. Niether did Anthony. They just up and went to the Dean of Students to get everyone in trouble.
Luckily, the RA's only got warnings and had to write letters of apology. Well, most of the RA's that is. Scott's case was slightly different. You see, somehow, I don't know how, but somehow, Anthony caught wind of my "attempt" back in March and decided to bring that to the Dean's attention as well. So that was another thing Scott got in trouble for. Now I understand that there was alcohol on campus, and that is a violation of the alcohol policy, but that incident ws before the RA interviews for next year even took place. So Scott wasn't bound by any agreement at that time. And another thing: HOW THE FUCK DID ANTHONY FIND OUT? I sure as hell didn't tell him. That is private and between Scott and Joe and I and the few friends that I consider close enough to tell. He has no business sticking his nose in something like that. It is not his place. At all. Now, since Anthony didn't have any evidence about this, the Dean couldn't do anything, but Scott is in very hot water, and they are keeping a very close eye on him.
Now this happened about a few weeks ago, but the little problem has arisen again. Last night, while I was watching The Matrix: Reloaded, Tabby and Emily went to Thirsty's (A bar) and sang Kareoke. They went to a bar, but that does not mean that they drank. In fact, they didn't drink. Yet guess what happened . . . yup, Mara turned them in. No, not Mara, Anthony, at Mara's request. WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!? They weren't even drinking. According to Mara, students can't even go sing kareoke anymore. And that's not all. Jeremy Bryan was turned in for drinking in the fine arts center. But guess what . . . Jeremy wasn't drinking in the fine arts center! This is getting so far beyond ridiculous I can't believe it. Anthony and Mara need to lay off and my their own fucking business. If it was done in front of them, on campus, that's one thing. But when they go looking for excuses to turn people in, that's going too far. And to top it off, they don't talk to their "friends", they just report them to get them in trouble. This is not right. Not right at all.
In other news, I went to the Kareoke competition tonight. I decided to sing "No Such Thing" because it's got a faster tempo that "Your Body is a Wonderland" and I figured it would compete better. So, I get up there, and I suck it up. Really. I felt like I did horrible. In all honesty I probably didn't do that bad, but I didn't do nearly as well as I could have. So I was bummed because lots of other people went up and were amazing. And then I found out that they were choosing a top 5 based on majors. The top Education major, the top business major, the top fine-arts major, and the top Science major, plus one other person. Well, seeing as how I was the only Science major there, I automatically was in the top 5, and I got to pick another song to do in the finals. So I picked "Bent" by Matchbox 20 because it kicks ass and I've done it as Kareoke before and kicked ass. And, I kicked ass. I sounded really freaking good. Granted, I didn't jump around the stage and act like a maniac like Treagan, but that's because that's not part of the song. It's not a jump around and smash things song. It's an emotional song, and I poured emotion into it. I think I really did well.
The other people in finals were, in order of performace: Sarah S., Treagan, Mara, and Emily. Emily took for freaking ever to find a song, but that's another issue. Anyway, everyone sang really well. And Treagan's performance was really great. He had, by far, the most energy out of all of us. In the end, he got first, and he deserved it. I totally expected him to win it. So, I was hoping for second . . . and I didn't get it . . . Mara did. To some degree I'm pissed about it. But mostly its dissappointment. Mara's performance was good. It was really good. But it wasn't her best by far. I have seen her do sooooo much better. And my performance was truly one of my best, in my opinion. And it's hard when a good performance from me isn't as good as an ok performance from her . . . So, my ego was pretty bruised. I really could've used the money too. But at least I got $25. I got something. I can't be completely dissappointed. But, at the same time, I got it all through default. I could've gone up there and pukedon the judges and I still would've gotten $25 . . . it's really discouraging.
So, after the 2 hours of that I went back to my room and talked with people, then went to the science building to study with Scott for my evil organic test tomorrow that shouldn't exist(It's dead week and according to school regulations, there are not supposed to be tests during this week. If only Anthony and Mara could be all holy about this . . . jeez). So, we went over notes and stuff. I wasn't able to concentrate very well because Scott is a dork. Let me explain. A few minutes after I sat down, Scott offers me a Cheezit . . . now most of you know my intense disgust of cheese-related snack items, so I refused it. He wanted me to try it, and I kept refusing. Finally, he said that if I ate one Cheezit, I could suck his dick. I brushed it off as a stupid lure, but he said he was serious. And he looked very, very serious. So I sat there, looking confused, unsure of what to do, and he made the offer again. The cheezit was inches away from my face. All I had to do was open my mouth and chew once and swallow, and then I would finally be able to show Scott, in some way at least, my feelings towards him. I was about to do it. But I was still suspicious of a trick in spite of his totally serious face . . so I hesitated. And I hesitated too long, or something because he retracted the offer and finished the cheezits. And I couldn't comprehend a word I read after that. Damn him . . .
Eric 5/16/2003 04:04:00 AM
