Oh Shoot

It's 11:18PM now and the house is calm. Several of us are sick--someone is coughing up a lung down the hall. But it is calm. Perhaps out of emotional exhaustion or perhaps by the fact that Eddie George's $3 burgers are now settling in our stomachs and the grease is oozing into our brains as our engines are shutting down. We escaped today's bumpy ride. 

6:30PM "Happy Valentines Day guys!" Gina proclaims as we all start yelling out what kind of candy we want her to throw to us from the bag of goodies she purchased. The theme for tonight's brotherhood night is Funny You Tube Videos. Sugar and top rated clips go well together. After the video with talking animals wins the most votes from the chapter, the meeting is called into order...

"I just don't see the purpose." 

"I'm a senior. I don't know anyone."

"I did not want to do this in the first place."

"Everyone [] and sit down and help!"

"[edited out]!"

...and 7 were left. 

It's 11:35PM now and I have spent the last 4.5 hours working on building relationships with my brothers rather than working on compiling a large list of names for recruitment purposes. When I caught up with my brothers at Eddie Georges after many of them stormed out, I was grateful that my big brother had already calmed them down as he was heading into the house as they were leaving. Dinner was conversational and fun despite less enjoyable food. Once home, I sat down with one of my brother's to listen and work things out. Though I did not lose my cool during the meeting earlier, I could have communicated the meaning of what we were and included brothers in conversations about recruitment before throwing a large task of coming up with 50 names each before we left for EGs. 

Over the next week I will need to build relationships if this large undertaking of a recruitment system overhaul is going to work. PhiredUp comes in a week from tomorrow.

*Tired; therefore may be errors in writing. Sorry.