Mean Girls v. Godzilla

College campuses frequently play host during the summer months to a variety of camps and conferences.  I happen to be helping out at one right now (http://www.starsandstripestrack.com/ DING! cheap plug).  But not all camps, nor their participants are created equal.

I have nothing against cheerleaders, except when they end up taking themselves too seriously.  I'm sure if there was any true circulation of this blog, I would receive tons of hate mail for saying that.  I'm sorry but you can't be a sport if the purpose of your activity exists entirely because of sports.  I will absolutely agree that cheerleading can require a great amount of skill, and people can put in a lot of work, and it can be very dangerous.  But so is knife throwing.  And that's not a sport.

So this past weekend the campus played host to a youth cheerleading camp.  There are few things in this world more painfully annoying than middle school girls with attitudes, superiority complexes, overly accommodating and supportive parents, and very loud, shrill voices at all times.  But then they were gone.  Balance had been restored to the Force.

As I walk home from work across campus tonight, I notice these big packs of  kids running around all over the place.  Most are wearing some form of pajamas, or what should be pajamas and not actual clothes.  Another is wearing what looks like a very colorful bathrobe.  Another wearing a panda bear on her head, and a Hello Kitty hair clip.  And there are tons of them.  Like the group (or maybe it was their street gang) that were clogging the stairway I was hoping to pass through.  We had an interesting conversation, in my passing - I couldn't tell if I was being made fun of, or if the guy who was trying to speak to me was the object of the group's laughter.  Maybe it was their laughter ringing with me all the way back to my room, or the tehehe's of the groups of girls giggling to themselves seemingly everywhere.

Japanese high schoolers, on campus for the next week.

I really need to find an apartment soon.