reason #739247961 I hate this town.

If you are reading this you are most likely one of my friends that has often heard me bitch about living here in the tiny town of Rexburg, and for this I apologize. I have really had a hard time adjusting to this tiny town full of close-minded people and students that seem to have been raised amongst cattle in a barn, and my wonderful friends have patiently listened to me as I have turned to them as my only outlet. I owe yall my life for this really...a million times thankyou!

So why stop the complaining now? Actually...I have found that I am beyond the words of complaint now and am more astonished at the sheer nerdiness and weirdness that comes with this territory. I read an article in the university's newspaper, The Scroll, yesterday and found myself in utter astonishment. The title of this article reads: "Quidditch players hit the field at Porter Park."

Let's read that again............

Yup, it says Quidditch.

So, if you happen to be completely lost right now, let me fill you in on what Quidditch is. Ever read or seen Harry Potter? Check. Know the game that they play in the story? Check. You mean the one where they fly around on broomsticks and chase this little ball that has wings because they are wizards and witches and its a fictitious story?

Check. Check. Check.

Now I'm not hatin' on Harry Potter or anything. I enjoyed the movies as much as anyone else did. The difference in ME however and these wanna-be-harry-potter-characters is that I know that Harry Potter and Quidditch are FAKE. As in NOT REAL; FICTITIOUS; IMAGINARY; MADE-UP. You can't REALLY play this game. Oh, but they did...

Sorry these pictures are a little hard to see...I took a picture of the newspaper article that they were in. But I guess its not hard to use your IMAGINATION to picture this IMAGINARY game being played in real life.

According to the article, Team Gryiffindor played against Team Ravenclaw and they had a guy wearing yellow with a gold ball attached to his hip to represent the snitch (gold flying ball). Oh, thats right, you would need a person to act as the snitch because in the story it has wings and basically a mind of its own....riiiiiiiight. How clever these weird students are...WTF?! They also noted that this was only their second game, their first one was played at Utah State. Oh, so they are a travelling team....only real teams get to travel. The Gryiffindor team captain also said that she hopes that BYU-Idaho can form a real Quidditch team and that there really are teams in the US.

This really happened here. Literally. I've got to get out of this town...