Yay for Mothers

So... As promised, I am guest posting on Melissa's blog. Forgive the brief respite from Melissa humor and interesting stories while she writes her paper and does her test. (although work only seems to increase the blogging rate, so perhaps I should post during a down week next time)

Over here at Carleton, we have about 4 weeks of school left, so we're not in quite the mad rush that the Williams kids are. But I'm still managing to keep myself surprisingly busy. This past weekend was Mother's Day, as you probably realized, and every Mother's Day the Knights
(the a cappella group of which I am a member) does singing telgrams for mothers (for a mere $5).

So the eleven of us get up at 8:30 in the morning on a Sunday and go over to a professor's house, where we proceed to call mothers on the telephone one by one until about 6:00 pm. Although it's a long, long day it's also a lot of fun. The first thing you realize is that, for the most part, mothers are GREAT! It's amazing how happy two cheesy little songs sung over a telephone can make people, but oh boy do some mothers go crazy for it.

We generally have a few categories for mothers that we keep tally of throughout the day - first there are the criers (often sobbing, after one and a half minutes of song - 7 this year), then there are the screamers (oh my god! You're so cute! - 5).

But there are also occasionally some mishaps. Like the grandmother who thought we were solicitors and hung up on us, but then decided that she wasn't finished, and * 69ed us to yell at us for bothering a poor old woman on Mother's Day. Whoops.

Anyhow, after singing for 8 hours, our voices are pretty shot, and we're not inclined to see each other for a while - but we do walk away with that wonderful glow that comes from making 110 mothers day's just a little brighter.