when we were in middle school and certain members of our troop didn’t think they could balance being celebrated members of the sixth grade and girl scouts at the same time, someone invented “great superstitions,” which was a cryptic reference to our troop meetings. now, first of all, there are plenty of words in the english language, or better yet, foreign languages, since secrecy was the goal, that begin with the letters ‘g’ and ‘s’ – and someone put ‘great’ and ‘superstitions’ together? what does that even have to do with girl scouts? or girls? or scouts? or meetings? so maybe that says something about the people who christened this phrase, b/c my second major complaint is, if you’re going to deny our existence until thursday afternoons and then be a snot (yeah, that’s the word i chose) during meetings anyway, why don’t you save yourself all the coverup production and quit? unless you’re really into espionage. whatever.
even up into high school (before they spooked and stopped talking about it completely) these particular members would ask, “are you going to great superstitions?” and i would say, “what? am i going to girl scouts? yeah! see you there!” cue blushing, snotty (there it is again) glare and ashamed scurrying.
well, we all went to the rumpf’s house for a little girl scouts reunite yesterday at eight, and it was weird to have a girl scout meeting, even if was only representative, that started so long after dark. me, jill, meryl, melissa, ashley, kristin and mrs. rumpf all hung out and told funny stories. i love those girls. and after eight years of masquerading as a mysterious nonsensical club (some of us dabbled in great superstitions membership at one point or another) we finally came up with a cool password that was actually cool. why not be a sorority? and so, gamma sigma was born. now i just wish we all lived in the house together. and that mtv and ikea decorated that house.
then meryl and i went over to jenn’s house to play trivial pursuit with jenn and kate and corinne and a couple girls from gw. twentieth anniversary edition, baby.
quote of the day: “make new friends, but keep the old. one is silver and the other gold” – make new friends
love always, em locke
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