Costume Balls and Celebrity Sightings
If there's one thing college students love, it's themed parties.
Seriously, is there anything better? (and if any of you are already themed party lovers, comment and share your ideas.)
There have been some fantastic ones already this semester...
Last weekend my sorority had a Masquerade Ball and I used my mad glue gun skillz to make a mask that was only semi-hideous! ha. My date's was entirely hideous, but I figured that since it was my formal and I was wearing the pretty dress, I was going to claim the good mask.
Sadly, because I was at Masquerade, I missed a fabulous 1920s themed party! (Alex was there though - he can tell you about it.) I was really bummed about this because I already had my costume ready since I was a flapper for Halloween.
Halloween at Butler is kind of funny, because no one really dresses up on the actual day, but the Saturday after Halloween was this HUGE all campus party that Sigma Nu hosts called Voodoo. Seitu was right when he said it is the party of the year! You should check out his pictures, because the SNu boys go all out decorating their house so that we can all have a massive dance party in their basement. I went with my friend KFod (Ivy from Batman), Paula (Snow White), Kim (50s movie star) and Katie (50s girl...popular decade). (Comment if you had a cool costume.) I was pretty much in love with my flapper dress because it was red with this fun fringe all over it. Fabulous for shaking it up on the dance floor...
which is where the celebrity sightings come into play!
okay, I may have led you on with the term "celebrity," but the Butler Men's Basketball team is the object of my undying admiration, so you can imagine how excited I was to see #5 junior Ben Slaton at the party!
Ben was dressed up as "a ladies' magnet" and had Barbie dolls glued all over him. Cute idea, although in my personal opinion #32 Drew Streicher and #34 Pete Campbell are the ladies' magnets of the team (watch them read this now... haha). But anyway, the point is that as much as I like to pretend that they are celebrities, those boys are actually pretty down to earth. Drew was in my Spanish class, Brian Ligon (who graduated last year) used to smile whenever we crossed paths in the science building every morning, and I saw our new freshman Matt Howard at C Club buying some dinner last week. They're really just normal college students like the rest of us - especially at a small school like Butler... they can't just hide out from the rest of the student body, nor would they want to. My sorority house had the team over for dinner last spring after the Sweet 16 and it was fun to just chat about tv shows and classes and realize how much they are just like us (except when they're on ESPN...haha).
Anyway, I feel pretty comfortable around most of the players, but on Wednesday, I was walking down the sidewalk by the Mall (our grassy area in the center of campus) and who should be walking towards me but AJ Graves, our star player! Now the thing is, we were the only two people in the whole area, so it was hard to avoid eye contact. However, I didn't know what to do, because I wanted to be like "Hey AJ!" but that would be creepy. Instead I just looked away and headed down my seperate path to the library. (What should one do in that situation? Smile? Wish him luck at the game vs. Indiana State? which we won, ps.)
However, looking back, I really wish I had stopped and had a conversation with him, because that would have been a super sweet blog entry for you all. I'll remember that for the future!!