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[rm]

If you call me Rachel, you're not paying attention.

If you call me Rach, you're pretty much everyone.

If you call me RM (and I mean this conversationally, not in LJ land) you either don't know me very well, or know me very well and are messing with me.

If you call me Rae, you knew me for like a week my sophomore year of college.

If you call me Lane, you knew me on my college newspaper.

If you call me Rachie, you're my mother.

If you call me Herschel, you're also my mother, but even more inexplicable.

If you call me Diamond, you're one of my sorority sisters.

If you call me something that's not on this list, chances are you need to change that habit.

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[sdn.livejournal.com]

you belonged to a sorority?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

Alpha Theta Beta, which is a regional one that was founded at Hofstra. The beta chapter was at my university. It's on my class ring and everything.

[schpahky.livejournal.com]

Hofstra! Aieeee! That's where I did undergrad!

[rm.livejournal.com]

So you probably have some sort of impression of them even... well that's scary. Heh.

[schpahky.livejournal.com]

I can't remember anything about that one because it didn't have any cute acronyms. I imagine people (not in the sorority) probably enjoyed chirping "Alpha Theta Beta!" like the Tri Delta girls on SNL.

I remember Alpha Omega Beta, because they were the Not-Beautiful But Nice Girls, and because the cruel called them Alliance Of Beasts. We also had SDT which had its predictable alternate acronym. For a campus that didn't allow Greek housing Hofstra had a really big Greek scene.

[rm.livejournal.com]

There was something horrible we got called, but i can't remember it anymore. We were very much the freak sorority, and it wasn't appreciated much on our campus or I think with Hofstra. I remember at one point one of the girls punched another girl and broke her nose in the middle of the mall on campus. Also we were _very_ multi-ethnic, had a girl in a wheelchair, and well Christ, they let me be pledge mom, a concept you should probably consider as little as humanly possible.

[schpahky.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, okay, after consulting with a college friend it seems that I pictured the Theta symbol wrong. Of course it looks like an O. Which means you were in, by Hofstra standards, Alliance of Beasts. And the way I summed it up pretty much stands. Every sorority at Hofstra was buffed and polished within an inch of their lives. The girls looked identical, had long manicured nails, wore lots of makeup to look as if they weren't wearing makeup. The girls in AOB - well, there were some heavy girls (hence the nickname), and seriously funky girls, and I want to say there was a disabled girl too. I used to think that if I ever was the type to pledge I would only be able to find a home with them. The members I met didn't throw around any sort of snobbiness except, occasionally, that of outsiders finding a home. Their sweatshirts were dark green. They rarely had the letters done up in calico like the other girls.

Rumors flew hotly about what AOB pledging was like, including the part about pledges having all their body fat circled in full view of the sorority.

I bet you were a great pledge mom.

Incidentally, the companion fraternity to AOB was Kappa Sigma, and I loved those guys. They were so fucking nice I wanted to cry. They even invited me to sit in their booth at the Rathskellar, which was the closest thing Hofstra had to Greek housing.

Jesus this has been a trip down memory lane. Where did you do undergrad again?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Kappa Sig had their house closed on my campus for not having a enough manly activities (it was all poetry and jazz and coffee houses and pot).

DPhiE got the body fat circling rumour at my school.

And yeah, our colors are dark green and ivory, hence my ever so slytheran college ring.

[schpahky.livejournal.com]

DPhiE! DPhiE! DPhiE!

Also known as Dogs Pigs and Elephants....

[rm.livejournal.com]

Hahaha... at my school they were the biggest hair, longest nails, people who scared the crap of me people.

[username-ha.livejournal.com]

How about the Maltese Falcon? Can I call you the Maltese Falcon? That could be your secret agent code name or something.

Yeah, I'm silly today.

[rm.livejournal.com]

If you call me that, you'd be my high school "Sociology of Prejudice and Persecution" teacher, who jumped up on his desk (yes, on top of his desk) whenever he called on me and shouted, "The falcon, do you have the falcon," before pointing at me for the answer.

[username-ha.livejournal.com]

Mwhahahahahahahahah

*breathe*

Hahahahahah!

That's great. Heh.

[chite.livejournal.com]

Oh my god. The picture just came back so vividly. Oh. my. That was a memory.

(I love that bell, I hate that bell. It's a love-hate relationship)

[rm.livejournal.com]

Not anymore, which is why I screened the above. I terribly effectively, but I sure can pretend!

[http://users.livejournal.com/sunyata__/]

Good to know what I can call you when I finally head up to NYC. Thanks, Rach.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Heheh cool... is there a plan?

[http://users.livejournal.com/sunyata__/]

Was this comment meant for me?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yes, you said you knew what to call me when you came to NYC, so I asked if there was a plan for you to in fact come to NYC.

[http://users.livejournal.com/sunyata__/]

Ah, thought so. When you asked "is there a plan", you had accidentally started a new thread rather than responding to my comment, so I hadn't gotten an email notification.

There isn't a plan yet, but there's a very strong intention and desire to spend a 3-day weekend up there. I have a handful of LJers I'd like to meet, you included.

[delchi.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of one other name, but I can't quite get it out of my brain. Your RP name from the Bardy days.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Navine.