grimace and gamma chi's

It's about one in the morning. Jenn's gone for the weekend. I was studying for my Biology quiz on Monday since I'll be out of town on Sunday evening for a concert in Pittsburgh, but I feel like I have things to tell people.

First, Grimace is real mad. Real real mad. He's suspended till Monday night, and even though people keep telling me that I did the right thing, I live in a society and in a generation where the unspoken rule is that if you know something, you should keep your mouth shut about it. As long as someone is getting away with something bad it's okay. They're not in real trouble until they get caught. And then it should be by accident, never when someone turns them in.

When I spoke to a very angry Grimace on the phone last Monday, he brought up a couple of intersting points among a whole lot of very nasty things to say. He said, "I have friends at home who smoke pot. You probably do too, but do I see you ratting them out, even when they're doing something hurtful and dangerous? No. You don't rat out your friends to the cops, so why would you do this to me?" My answer to him was that I haven't been told to turn in my friends who smoke pot, and I'm being paid to make sure kids follow the rules here. He would have none of it, and that's fine, but it bothers me that this is his stance.

The Gamma Chi's, the sorority I'm looking to join, got wind of this situation and sat me down last night. They informed me that, as a sorority, they would not be giving me a bid for membership this weekend because they feel that they don't want to put me in the awkward position of having to choose between upholding my integrity as an RA and not ratting out the group. They told me that they will be offering bids again in November and that they'd love to take me then if this is what I wanted, but that they wanted me to think about the fact that they sometimes do things they're not supposed to and that I don't have to participate, but I will know about these things and I will have to be okay with them. In all, it's been a cruddy week to do with this kind of stuff, but I'm glad that the girls thought to talk to me about this. I appreciate their honesty and I'll think about it for sure.

Last week in Chem lab, we stripped the dye off of M&Ms and ran all kinds of tests on it to determine the nature of the dyes used. All in all - M&Ms don't have that much dye. So eat up.

K I'm going to finish studying Bio now. Have a good night...morning...whatev.