03/04/2022
Meet the Execs Part 2/4! By PR/Historian Colin Foley
•Interview Notes:
•After our weekly exec meeting, I lingered afterwards to see if I could catch any of these three for an interview. They sat huddled and cackling to each other on the floor 1.5 LBC couches. As I moved in for a closer look, the three quickly covered whatever they were huddled over, but the sound of bubbling and the unmistakable smell of fillet of a fenny snake, eye of newt and toe of frog (to name a few) made me suspect I had stumbled upon something I wasn’t meant to see. Crows cawed from outside and my heart thumped at the tempo of their cackles. With a shiver up my spine, I asked in a small voice where they were from.
•The three spoke in perfect unison. I had to stop them immediately to ask them to take off their big pointy black hats because I couldn’t understand them from under them. When they did, the skies cleared, the crows found someplace else to be, and before me sat a well-meaning trio of goofy gals. A cascade of natural light sprung from the windows, spilling over the scene and warming my chilled bones.
•“Let’s start over,” they said in one angelic voice. “We’re not so good at first impressions. Here, can we get you some tea?” The three of them reached behind them to reveal what I wrongly assumed to be a cauldron was actually a massive tea kettle from behind their backs, the aromas wafting pleasantly across the LBC couches. Students who picked up the smell in one nostril and out the other slowly levitated into the air cartoonishly floated to our area, where they were greeted with piping hot tea brewed by the interviewees. I heard someone in the James lounge smack their face into the big wooden doors while trying to fly upstairs. Serves them right.
•“Will that be enough for you?” The girls said to me as they greeted the thirsty students, and I realized by way of magic that I implicitly knew all the answers to my pressing questions. I shook my head and went “w-w-w-what?? How did you guys DO that?” All they responded was a simultaneous wink and a twinkle in their eye that I knew would never go out.