In which . . . I discover that I don't need them after all

We had a meeting last night for my commons job. We have a new receptionist this semester, so we all had to introduce ourselves and tell a little about ourselves at the beginning of the meeting. Of course, I had to make it a little interesting. This is what I said:

"Hello. I am Mari Jo J. but you can call me M.J. -- kinda like J. Lo. I hail from the lovely city of Fargo in the beautiful state of ND. I'm a junior majoring in . . . I'm not sure exactly what right now, but possibly double-majoring in psychology and creative writing. And my favorite color is purple."

Michael and Nick (my bosses) both laughed and Nick said, "Wow Mari Jo -- you sounded like you were a contestant in a Miss America pageant!" We had a grand time at the meeting and I was so happy and bubbly when I left.

It's sad how talking to one "Christian" girl can change it all. I went to my Campus Crusade for Christ meeting last night. There was a girl who lived in my dorm my freshman year and was best buds with my RA who was also a "Christian" girl who absolutely hated me and made it very clear to everyone that she did. The girl was a nice girl before she got to know my RA but my RA poisoned her and now she is one of the most horrible people I know. This girl transferred to another school last semester and my RA had graduated so last semester was awesome. (Even though I broke my foot and had many other unfortunate things happen to me.)

But then she transferred back here. Last night was the first time I had talked to her since last Spring, and she made fun of everything I said. It's sad how one "Christian" girl can change it all . . . I had talked to her during the ice breaker thing and then they did some music and during the second song I started to cry and I wanted nothing more than to leave and never go back to Cru. It would have been very obvious had I just walked away so I stayed but I left as soon as I could after Cru was over.

I walked back to my room, tears pouring down my cheeks. Why do people have to be so mean? Why did my RA have to hate me so much? Why are Christians so hypocritical? This girl has gone on mission trips to tell others about Christ's love, but she ridicules and belittles the ones that she is around every day. I don't understand! I got back to my room and I called Nikki K. Nikki K. and Lisa told me that I should go with them to Perkins for pie and we would sit by ourselves away from all the others if that was what I wanted. We went out to my car and Nikki K. and Lisa took my ice scrapers and scraped my windows for me while I protested and told them that I could do it and they didn't have to. They said, "But we want to! We like to do it!" We had a grand time at Perkins and I actually talked to Andy, our basketball boy, which was cool. They're playing NDSU tonight in Fargo. Timmy told me that he wanted to go and cheer Andy and Jeremy and Matt on, but he probably won't get to cuz he's still little and he can't go to college basketball games all by himself yet. (Timmy said that if he goes to the game, he's going to find Andy and tell him that he should ask me out on a date. Silly boy . . . Why does everyone think I need a boyfriend???)

Nikki K. and Lisa are the only people I've ever known that I felt that I could call, in tears, and ask them to cheer me up. It's really cool. After finding them, I don't need the others anymore. As of today, I'm officially done with the Plastics of SMSU. (See the movie "Mean Girls" if you're not sure what Plastics are.) It's a great feeling. It's been nice knowing them, but "I have better people to do than you" (to quote KB). Whee!

~MK