Oh the adventures of SAC.

I always have to anticipate something blowing up or just going plain wrong. Considering the fact we perform in the BLUU Auditorium, we have to compete with several activities to keep our time slot at 9:00pm. But every once in a while, even when we have the auditorium reserved, things don't go as planned....

At 8:00pm last week, I promptly show up in my light blue tie and black dress pants and shorts, and what do I see? A PARTY GOING ON IN THE AUDITORIUM. There's hundreds of people, loud hip hop music blasting from huge speakers, and I think COOL! WHERE CAN I JOIN THE DANCE PARTY? Then reality sets in...I don't think this huge fiesta is for the members of SAC...who are these people? Why are they in the auditorium an hour before show time?! How do we get them out? AGHHHHH!!!

Now, I'm not talking about a few hundred CALM students tapping their feet and bopping their heads to the music as they gracefully sit in the auditorium stadium seating. I'm talking about everyone UP FROM THEIR SEATS, CLAPPING, BREAKING IT DOWN, AND GETTING CRUNK. There are signs and confetti everywhere and lots of lots of body odor. WHAT WAS GOING ON????

We learned that the multi-cultural fraternities and sororities were having an event and a certain someone...who is the head of coordinating activities at the BLUU...who I will not name...but who may happen to always ACCIDENTLY forget to tell SAC what is going on...came up to our president Ricky Anderson and me, to say that this event was scheduled to be outside, but he wasn't sure if it was going to rain, so he made the EXECUTIVE decision to make the event in the auditorium. -PS. it didn't rain!-

Oh now..that's just HILARIOUS. You mean that even though a YEAR AGO today SAC gave the BLUU a calendar of all the dates we needed the auditorium, and even though they APPROVED IT, and this was not one of the dates we had CONFLICT with, this (unnamed man) just EXECUTIVELY decides to give me a heart attack. Well that was just great. Because not only did I have to be pushed by the crowd to the front, but when they promised to end at 9:00pm. They definitely did not.

Luckily, most of our audience waited outside while we desperately tried to tackle the massive amounts of people. Not to mention, this 40 year old man (who said he was their advisor), who had some how grabbed the microphone that we needed for our show, went power crazy with the MIC! He's rapping and making jokes and just living up the spotlight. At 9:20 with my ever so polite manners, my 5'2 self walks up to this 6'6 350 pound man, to kindly hand over the mic to me. He says he's not done using it...I walk away cringing as I watch him put his whole mouth on the mic and spit all over it....yuck.

UPDATE: This week show, we were told we had to perform in the BLUU Ballroom, where the stage only fits 3 out of 7 performers, and we have to re-work all our technical equipment. Now, what's so funny about this scenario is that absolutely NOTHING was going on in the BLUU Auditorium. Not a single sole or even a mouse could be seen.....that certain BLUU Auditorium man who makes such great executive decisions..watch out. You are not on my favorite list.