So G^j's in Canada. Did I mention that? She is, and she's homesick, and she wants to come back. I think she just misses the college/instant-friends atmosphere. It's tougher out there in the real world, you know. But anyway, she's been 'rushed'. I think that's the right term. I'm not quite up to date on the correct expression, but in essence, she's been invited to join a sorority.

Now, as soon as we girls back here in Australia heard this, we immediately went nuts. Of course she had to join, we insisted. This was a once in a lifetime opportunity! You just don't get it; we don't have these things in Australia. 'Going Greek' means ordering take-out from a restaurant of that nationality. Sigma Delta Epsilon means nothing more than something vague to do with maths. We have been living our whole lives hearing about these weird things, and now one of gets a chance to get on the inside? It's like being invited to the Mason's most secret inner rituals. Even if you're not interested, you just have to do it!

But G^j's skeptical. She thinks it would be like hanging out with the Belly-Button Brigade all the time. (For those not in the know, the BBB is the group of first-year girls on our floor who are all, like, normal and teeny and so... well, I hate to say it about anyone, but they're so Quinn.) She has a point. And we're loath to point out that it's her scientific duty to take this mission. After all, she's risking her life for us over there in Canada. We can hardly ask that she immerse herself in giggling culture as well.

Besides, some of them might be perfectly nice girls who don't deserve to be slaughtered horribly when she finally cracks under the strain and goes on a killing spree with her lip-liner. Maybe it's all for the best, really.

Incidentally, the sorority in question is Alpha Omicron Pi or something like that. Anyone with inside information, please let me know, because I'm obviously not going to get it from a first-hand source. We're particularly interested to know what the "Depinning and Inspiration" is in the events section. On the 22nd March. Just before this "Initiation" that we also have questions about. Does it involve goat's blood? If not, why not? (What's your favourite colour?) And why is a Mourner's Dinner held a week after it? Am I the only suspicious one around here?