(Long, long ago, the Taus decided to completely rebuild their constitution from scratch. Starting in September, we had an EXTRA House Meeting every week, so we could go through the constitution line by line, and figure out what it all meant and what we really wanted it to say. It took two months, but we did it. We finally finished the day after the annual Halloween party. The Taus were quite pleased with themselves, and possibly still a little drunk. A motion was put forward for one more constitutional amendment: The Halloween decorations must stay up all year. Motion passed.)

(The Halloween decorations included a painted window. "HAPPY HALLOWEEN!" in letters a foot high. For a lot of people, something like this would have put a crimp in all further lounge decor for the the rest of the year, but not the Taus. Every holiday, someone would take a piece of construction paper and a magic marker, and edit the window. Then, we'd add a few random new appropriate decorations. Please note that once something was on the lounge walls, it was going to stay there forever. That year, the Taus celebrated "HAPPY ThanksgivingOWEEN!" "HAPPY ChristmasOWEEN!" "HAPPY PrefOWEEN!" and "HAPPY PledgeOWEEN!")

(And so it came to pass that the best date for the Tau Valentine's Day Party that year was Friday the 13th. There was of course only one thing we could call it. Picture the lounge, with four-month old black crepe paper and cobwebs hung from the ceiling. Add a few construction paper turkeys, and some tinsel and colored lights and Santas. Now, add more crepe paper, pink and red, and construction paper hearts. Obtain a blacklight. This was VALLOWEEN, quite possibly the best Tau party ever. The rest of the campus had laughed at ChristmasOWEEN, and PrefOWEEN and PledgeOWEEN were naturally invitation only events, but with VALLOWEEN, the Taus had stumbled across a holiday everyone could enjoy. People wore black, and cursed their exes. Some of the hearts got turned upside down. Many Wop was consumed. Everyone who came who hadn't known that this was just something freaklike the Taus had been building up to for months congratulated us on a truly original party theme.)

(It was also mine and D's one-week anniversary. We got to be That Couple, the nauseatingly cute counterpoint to all the AntiLove that flowed through Mapes Hall.)

Until yesterday, I always thought that Valloween would go down in history as the Best Valentine's Ever. Now, it's been demoted to a close second. I got dinner. I got jewelry. I got flowers. I got chocolate.

That all sounds pretty conventional, but let me explain about the chocolate. This wasn't just any chocolate. This was Chocolate Covered Neat. I don't think you understand. Chocolate Covered Neat!! Just take a minute to think about that. The Neat was all ground up, and blended with chocolate, and individually wrapped in gold foil. It didn't even taste like Neat, but it was, it so was. Like God's own truffles, my friend.

Josh and I spent an hour on my kitchen floor, playing with my change. "I collect coins too, but if I bring them out now, they'll get mixed in with the change, and that will be all bad." There were far, far too many Arkansinian quarters. We decided they were inbreeding, and they had to be segregated.

"No, wait. Dude. Segregation is bad."

"Oh, shitty!"

"We have to do it, though."

"I know. Otherwise, they'll corrupt the rest of the change."

"Damn Arkansinians!"

Hee. I love tripping with Josh. We share a brain, you know.

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