... Friends, eh?

[sylmellon]

I am so fucking sick of this shit - being treated like an old workout doormat, that is. I used to think the delts were great guys - I do, and since freshman... well, maybe sophomore if you want to count when people actually pledged - year, I've always counted them tops among my friends. There's Brad, and there's Eric, and then are the delts. You

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[sylmellon]

As it so happens, you're probably the least guilty of anyone about whom I wrote this... you just sort of get lumped in with "delts" because... well, because you are one. :-P. It's not so much a lack of time to hang out or a lack of invitations that's frustrating me - it's a lack of people WANTING to hang out.

Like, remember back during freshman year, when Scott and Brian liked to hang out with the rest of us, rather than just go off and smoke? And Jason actually liked hanging out with us as the "Butler" group?

I know people have commitments and things change - relationships (yay!), new friends, work. But, Steve is 200% right about it really just being that people (with a very few exceptions) have no desire to spend time around anyone but their 'brothers' anymore. And if you just want to hang out, rather than GO out? Ha! Forget it... even a bribe of alcohol didn't get me anywhere in the "hey let's hang out" category last night.

Some of the new kids are really cool, and a very few of them even like to hang out - rather than just be fraternity boys. A select few of us old guard like to do that, too.

I get that some things in a fraternity - by its nature as a fraternity - are exclusive to brothers. But, dear God, unless it's part of some secret ritual to pledge an oath to scorn or just tolerate with infuriating indifference anyone - male or female - who's not initiated, I don't know what the hell is wrong with the vast majority of everyone these days.

... I just miss the Delts that you and Brad joined. I like the Delts that exist now significantly less.

Oh, and yes, my phone number did change post-Katrina. It is now 440 223 5442. Steve should let us know when he's free, and we'll wander down Maple Street and try one of the new local restaurants that're opening up. Then, hey, maybe we'll do something really revolutionary and just hang out somewhere afterwards and... oh! the possibilities abound!... watch a movie, or play Munchkin, or go to a play/dance performance on campus, or....

It'll be fun.
When's Steve free? Steve! Let us know!!!

... Would the Prada and mini-skirts help? Really, what is wrong with these new kids that they don't want to expand their horizons and hang out on a Friday night when nothing's going on?... If you have any idea, I'd love your perspective. I can't seem to get inside their heads. If I had some idea of their perspective/opinions/perception of me, I'd have something to work with, and a better idea of what to do and what's worth doing to make things happen.