The Peculiar SOB...

Hey gang, Sophs here. I'm sorry my life has been incredibly boring the last few weeks! I'm home right now for spring break but it's sure to pick back up when I get to school. For now, I'll tell you about an intriguing fellow that we shall call, "Allen". This guy is attractive enough (definitely looks better with his new haircut) and sits next to me in my 9 AM Statistics class. As the semester progressed, we began to chat and work together on assignments. I was incredibly annoyed at his disinterest in everything. "Whatever, I don't care," was his favorite phrase. Well I did care and I was sick of his attitude! When our professor said we would be working on a 2 month-long research project, I cringed at the idea of spending hours in the library with Apathetic Allen. "So, uh..you wanna work on it together?" I agreed to work with him, mainly because I knew he would do the work and not leave me with it all at the end. Our first task was to choose a topic that we would like to research. Once again, Allen showed no interest in choosing a topic and left it up to me. Instead of picking a topic I would thoroughly enjoy and going along with his remark, I decided to pick his brain. "What's your major?" That was easy enough question to answer without showing disinterest. "Film" he replied. I typed "film" and "gender" into google scholar. As the page came up, a firey look burned in Allen's eyes that sent blood coarsing through my veins and into my face. It was a bizarre adrenaline rush just from Allen's excitement. Our research topic was immediately decided, "Attack of the Leading Ladies: Gender, Sexuality and Spectatorship in Classic Horror Films". I felt like I had just drank a Red Bull. All of a sudden, I was the energizer bunny and I was ready to rock n roll. Allen and I began discussing plans for our project and time flew by. As I looked down at my watch, I realized it was almost 2 am. "We should get going" I suggested. I was proud of myself for finding Allen's passion and harnessing it for our project, but I wanted more. It became a quick drug, an addiction. I began to get excited to go to class and ask him question after question about filming, directing, acting, you name it. I embarrassingly admitted I hadn't seen many horror flicks. "Well we'll have to change that" he said with his quirky smirk I came to adore. So as I sit here in my house thinking about Allen, I don't know how I feel about the whole situation. As of right now, we are friendly research partners. The last few times we met up, he walked me to my dormitory and began to show interest by asking me questions too. Right now, I'm intrigued by him. I enjoy spending time with him now that I've found the key to unlock his inner fever that has begun to consume me. I'm definitely feeling the heat, and who knows? Maybe things will get spicy ...

let's hope so ;)

Stirred but not Shaken(yet),

Sophia <3