Spring 2015 - Day 97

The Alumni ball sign up ended up being just as dramatic as I expected. It was to begin at 9am so I got out of bed at 8:30 to get ready to go up there. Then Stephanie came back in the room and hurried up there quickly so I decided to go a little faster.

By the time I got up there at 8:45 they had already started and the line was back down the hallway. I got in it slightly annoyed that they said they would start at 9 and instead started earlier.

But then Whitney came to talk to me and said that people had started lining up at 7 so why not start earlier? The line is the line no matter what time they start. So that notion made me feel better.

Here is where the drama began. In the Dean’s memo they had said that we could sign up for tables up to 10 people. This ended up being only partially true. There were two tables of 10, two tables of 8, and the rest were of 6 and 4. So everyone was in a tither about that because they all prepared groups of 10.

Luckily I had 6 people down on my list so I should have no problems. I was in line, minding my own business, when I saw Jessi G go over to the phone at the activity desk. I waved her over to me and she had me come up and stand with her in line. She was with a few girls from the group Quinn had said she was going with.

Jessi G. was freaking out and I couldn't really figure out why. According to her there wasn't a place for Quinn. I told her about the conversations I had with Quinn the previous day. She didn't think that was true because the group said that they didn't have room for her.

I just focused on what I was told to do. Quinn hadn't contacted me since last night so I wasn't going to include her.

We got closer to the table and Jessi was still freaking out. “What if there aren't six person tables left?” she said with a note of panic.


“Well”, I told her, “Then we will split up four and two. But there will be six person tables left because that is the standard.”

And I was right. There were six person tables. They also were allowing people to squeeze seven at a six person table. Jessi had left for class at that point so I turned to Chelsea, who was signing up that other group and just asked her point blank if she had room for Quinn. She said no. So I included Quinn in our group just in case she really didn't have anywhere else to go.

I picked table six by the window and gave all our cabin numbers to Ronnie, the head waiter. Then I moved down the line and gave our meal choices to Perry. When I was doing that Jen and Andi and Maddie had just gotten out of class and so came to see how it went.

I told them what happened and that I got it and that all was fine. It was calm and drama free. They three of them are pretty drama free so they were completely fine with my choices.

Overall, I think it went pretty smoothly. That is, until Nicki started badgering me about the fact that she had no where to sit. It didn't particularly matter that we had left her off since she would have made 8 and we wouldn't have been able to do that. But I told her that if they allowed her to fit that it was fine with me. They couldn’t, of course. Fitting 8 at a 6 person table would be too tight with an entire fancy dining place setting.

Good lord, organizing girls for a dance is way too stressful.