Suite 3508

First of all, WELCOME! If you are reading this, then you somehow (either fortunately or unfortunately) stumbled across this rather peculiar blog. And be proud, your eyes are skimming over the virginal words of a First Blog Post. Yepp, the very first one. Well, for this blog. I may or may not have kept several travel blogs this past summer, but that is neither here nor there.

But what is this “Suite 3508”? Why, I’m so glad you asked! This blog will be used to document the rather random yet awesome activities that a certain group of Carolina students engage in over the course of their time here at the University of North Carolina. Crane-climbing, roof-storming, assassinations, ninja-rolling, you name it. So yes, the primary purpose of this blog will be to explain to our kids why Mommy and Daddy are working at a fast food joint rather than landing those big jobs with our pristine GPAs. Yeahhh….I might regret climbing service ladders at midnight when I look at my Arabic quiz tomorrow… But sacrifices must be made in the pursuit of carpe diem-ness! And yes, you may quote me on that.

That’s all fine and dandy, but what prompted you to start this blog? Another good question! (Questions are always so much easier to answer when you’re the one asking them).  Basically, it all started with one teeny-tiny happenstance that I like to refer to as The Venable Incident. Unfortunately, I will not go into details here, but if you stick around, the story will be posted shortly! But long story short (or rather, long story not told), the event sparked excited conversation and a subsequent four hour blog creation effort. And of course, the hardly trivial matter of what this blog will in fact be called. Oh la di da, let’s create a title and then BAM! A huge creative mindblock is thrust almost tangibly upon us.

The ideas ranged from bad:

To worse:

However, my personal favorite? “Carpe-ing the Crap out of that Diem”. Hell. Yeah. Unfortunately it’s a tad bit long for the URL address. In the end, we decided on the very ambiguous Suite 3508. The jury’s still out on the tagline though. Shall we keep it? Or shall we adopt Nash’s recent suggestion of “3508? More like 3-5-0-GREAT!”

Groaning aside (though I admit, bad puns never cease to amuse me), be on the lookout for more posts in the near future. And besides, with all of your guys’ busy schedules, I know it’s hard to go out and engage in acts of questioning legality. So my advice? Live vicariously through us :).

Over and out,

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