VPLCT

That stands for the Varsity Parking Lot Camping Team.

Yeah, I've camped in a parking lot. Well technically we set up the Duchess (the tent) in front of the Wilkinson Jamba Juice doors, but it was close to a parking lot.

Most of us in the tent, ready for HBL

I can't even describe what a fun, sleepless night it was. We had too many people even for that 10man tent (read 15 or more people)  so we were squished as squished can be. Ryan got there at 2pm so we were as FIRST as you can get. (Last year the VPLCT was behind 15 people so it was not tolerated this time around.)

Here's a little of that night's schedule.
I arrived with Anna at 7pm
Homework/not really doing homework at all until about 9pm.
Phase 10 for two rounds until there were too many people for the deck.
Zombie run until I got asthma/hurt my heels running on bare feet and the zombies ate me.
Tent setting up
Watching HottieBoombaLottie (HBL) (2:30am)
Being creeped out by the box people who showed up
Waking up (5am)
Moving into the WILK (6am)
Getting in the real line (7am)
Watching Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog
Napping on cold cement
Doors open and chaos insues (9am)

5am: Ryan: "Did anyone hear that dog outside the tent?" Cameron: "You said that at least 5 times in your sleep. You were dreaming."

Basically, the whole thing was hilarious. We slept hardly at all. We laughed most of the night. We quoted movies (mainly HBL). We ran. We danced. We ate. We conquered.

Seriously, it was madness.. 

Guys, the VPLCT isn't messing around. We had strategies. We had trash bags, and we went around the circle and said what we wanted, and then we had our responsibilities and we grabbed anything that was a maybe and stuffed it into the bags.

I'm super into the strategy Cameron is proposing. Anna is apathetic. Bronwyn  I couldn't explain. 

Then we congregated back at the meeting spot and picked through whatever we wanted. I got a 100% leather jacket for 3 dollars. Eliot told me I look like the Black Widow from the Avengers in it (even after I'd slept in a tent on concrete all night). He can stick around. The vultures started prowling around after a little while because everyone knew we had the best stuff--so they were waiting around the fringes of our piles hoping for some scraps.

We have our own gang signs. 

So here's to us. Cameron Asay, Ryan Hansen, Eliot Wood, Trent Heiner, Ben Romney, Nathan Weatherford, Angela Robinson, Anna Wendt, Bronwyn Bent, Jennie Smithson, Taylor Teeples, Natalie Fuller, Erica Mueller, and myself. The VPLCT. We're so cool, you wish it was summer so you could heat up a little bit.