spotlight on: abby trammel

well after a two-week hiatus, it is time to announce the o-house member of the week. this week’s lovely winner is none other than abby trammel. now there are lots and lots of reasons that abby is the o-house member of the week, but for the sake of time i’m just going to list ten, sort of david letterman style, if you will.

10. abby has the best nails of any girl i know.

9. abby trammel is very generous in giving her roommates manis/pedis, even when their (our) nails are totally disgusting. bethany brabec, i’m talking about you.

8. abby is also great at hair, make-up and fashion consultation. she’s probably the reason everyone else in the house is so pretty and why boys are always trying to date us.

7. abby is always willing to watch reality television with you. always.

6. abby has THE cutest niece ever. and she is nice enough to show us pictures on a regular basis.

5. abby really likes the following: kool-aid, lunchables, bagel bites, and dr. pepper. attention third graders everywhere: hide your lunches from abby.

4. abby shares the title of “co-MVP of o-house kitchen clean-up” with keira masters. sidenote: rounding out the top three vote getters was andrew crandall.

3. abby just got a car this year and loves driving everywhere. and the other o-house girls love being driven around, especially to class.

2. abby trammel has a commanding lead in the unofficial (okay, official) o-house race to the altar. and i do mean a commanding lead. some of us haven’t even left the starting blocks.

1. abby’s birthday was last Sunday. the o-house celebrated in style with a slight twist on our traditional surprise birthday party, meaning that we met her at huhot rather than waiting around the o-house for hours with blankets on our heads. abby’s was possibly the FIRST successful surprise party that we have thrown, in the sense that she was genuinely surprised.

(literal) COLD case

while keira was in florida for the weekend, no doubt lounging at the beach and hanging out with her soccer star boyfriend, the rest of the o-house was huddled around their space heaters. the Kansas weather was being very typical this weekend, meaning that the temperature plummeted without warning. the o-house was a very uncomfortable 62 degrees, and had reached the point where people could no longer hang out here without electric blankets and extra socks. usually at this point, the o-house girls (sans sydney) hold a secret meeting and plot how to turn on the heat without her noticing. but this time i went completely against my usually passive/compliant personality and turned it on without consulting anyone else.

syd: i’m sorry. but not really.

other roommates: you’re welcome.

everyone else: come on over to the o-house. the threat of hypothermia has been eliminated. and while you’re here, help us solve our latest mystery:

the second unsolved case of the year is not one of romance, gifts, or grandmas. no, this time our mystery is a vicious hate crime. on Friday night, October 30 at approximately 9:30 p.m., abby trammel, o-house attic resident, left manhattan for the weekend. upon returning Sunday evening, she found this: (viewer discretion advised)

the perpetrator of this seemingly perfect crime made one grave mistake. amongst the shreddings there was an only partially shredded paper that said MANHATTAN CHRISTIAN COLLEGE all over it. this leads us to believe:

a. it was an mcc student.

b. it was an mcc staff member… most likely larry sullivan.

c. it was someone who is not an mcc student or staff member, but who had the capabilities to devise an elaborate plan to throw us off track, as well as access to the mcc dumpsters.

we’re putting our money on choice a. but since abby knows very few people from mcc, and even fewer who would have a motive to do such a detestable act, we are without suspects.

any information leading to an arrest will be rewarded with some sort of food prepared by ms. trammel herself. hope you like bagel bites.