Friday, November 9, 2012

Pajama Runners

In my birthday post last month I mentioned that I was known as the pajama runner my freshmen year at BYU and Sarah Kate of Dixie Creek Farm, whom I adore, said I must tell more details about this.

My freshmen year I lived in dorms called Deseret Tower.  They were a set of 7 buildings each 7 stories tall (sadly have since been torn down and rebuilt).
One of the towers being torn down
I became best friends with one of the girls next door- Amy.   One night after a long day of classes and studying we were bored and needed something to do.  We were both already in our pajamas for the night.
Amy and me all pajamaed up and making the kissy faces before it was the thing to do
We decided to entertain ourselves by riding up in down in the elevator.   We went in, sat down and simply talked as it went up and down, those entering giving us odd looks.  And then- well I don't remember what exactly happened next but we decided to run.

We rode the elevator to the first floor and ran out the lobby doors and ran straight to the next building- in one set of lobby doors and out the other-side.  People of course looked at as and asked us what we were doing.  But we just kept running, in one door out the next until we made it through all seven dorms, making a loop and ending up back at our dorm collapsing on the couches in the lobby.

So it began.  This became an almost nightly ritual.  In one door, out the next.  We would only stop for really cute boys or cookies, everyone loves cookies.  Sometimes we would end our run in the Cannon Center (where the cafeteria, a store and the mailboxes were) to flirt with one of the night security guards -- but otherwise we just ran and always in our pajamas.

As the weather turned and snow covered the ground, our runs became less frequent- but we were and would always be known that year as the Pajama Runners.
Amy and I pretending to sleep after one of our many pajama runs
Did you have a nickname in college?

28 comments:

  1. Too funny!

    No nicknames for me in college. Most people had no clue who I was, and I was perfectly fine with that!

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  2. nope i didn't have any nicknames in college but then again as with high school i didn't have anyone i hung out with i spent most of my time in the college library reading

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  4. Greatest. Blog post. Ever. Truly. Such fantastic memories! I laughed out loud reading this, SO fun to remember. Thanks Em. :*)

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  5. Too cute!

    Nickname, huh? Not one I want my kids to find out about!!! ;)

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  6. hahaa I love it. Yes I had a nickname in college... Rachael :). It all goes back to Friends and all my friends were given a Friend's character name and I so happened to be Rachael. Which later on in life my parents call me Rachael after Rachael Ray. Strange how that all works.

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  7. Oh my gosh!!! That was some serious excercise. Cute pictures of you two.

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  8. Cute! And you look exactly the same!!

    No nickname here...

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  9. What a great memory, isn't that why we go to college after all! You haven't changed a bit Emmy!

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  10. Too funny! I did a lot of fun and crazy things freshman year too . . . not sure about the nickname though. :)

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  11. Freshman year was lots of fun! Did you guys really run all the way down to the Cannon center? (Or did you mean the Morris Center?) What a fun workout! :)

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  12. That is so funny! Man I miss the college days and glad you have this great memory!

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  13. That's great! Oh, the college years! What fun!!!

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  14. Oh man. I lived in Heritage Halls and my roommate was traumatized nightly by my sleepwalking and talking. One time I tried to give her an Econ lesson in my sleep. No joke!

    DT was awesome. I am sad they're gone. I used to walk through them on my way to work every day (I worked at the UPB).

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  15. OK, those are cute.
    AND you don't look any older!

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  16. How random! The only nickname I had during "college" was actually given to me by a roommate during my 2nd year of law school. When she had been doing her undergrad, she had been given the nickname of Nasty-Naz (there was a song that went along with it). So the nickname got passed down to me, NasT Natalia. I never did anything "nasty" to deserve it, it just kind of stuck. But it was one of those things only roommates call each other, and if anyone else had called me that, I would have died.

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  17. NICE! =) My nickname was Khaki...I hated it.

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  18. You haven't aged a day! And my college nickname was … JENNERS! That is where I got my "blogging" name.

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  19. What a cute story!!

    I don't even want to know what my nickname would have been.

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  20. Love the kissing face before it was cool pic!!!

    That's a great nick name, I'm the same way in mine.. but it's easy because I come from the great white north where pajamas are as thick and covering as most clothes anyway.

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  21. Oh to be young again!!! I LOVE that you were a "pajama runner".

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  22. I love fun college memories like that. You should write a book--"The Maze Runner" was a hit, why not "The Pajama Runner(s)"? :)

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  23. You so funny, and cute, and darn it, you look exactly like you did in college.

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  24. Hahaha! This is great, Emmy!!! Not only did I get an explanation, but I got pictures, too!!! :o) You were adorable in college!

    It is amazing the things you can come with to do when you're young and bored. :o) I'm so glad you were able to leave such a cool legacy! ;o)

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  25. What a cool story. I miss my college days so much!

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  26. Such a fun memory! I love it. College is amazing for crazy times, isn't it? You make me laugh. I can see where Alex gets it. :)

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