Well it's Homecoming Week! Or is it? I don't think many people know because there aren't really any special decorations up around campus, and there's not really any publicized events going on. There isn't even a banner in my dorm and they decorate for any and everything from the Sweetest Day to Parent's Weekend. There are a couple flyers up with the Homecoming Court listed, but that's the extent of knowledge of Ohio State's Homecoming.

Guess I'm still used to the week-long celebration and festivities in high school. Time to snap out of it because obviously, People don't have time to dress up for Tacky Day, conduct a Senior class prank, or buy a Spirit ribbon. This is college, and students are too busy getting degrees. And I had a nice Scarlet & Gray shirt to wear, but no main event to wear it to besides the game, which is the focal point of the week anyway, especially after the Homecoming Parade and Pep Rally got cancelled due to heavy rain, and to top it off, we lost the game so it was just a rough week.

I did do a story for Buckeye TV on Thursday about the "The World's Largest Pillow Fight" held in the South Oval every year as an attempt to break the World Record (which is about 4,000 people). So sadly once again that record was not broken, even with over 50,000 students at OSU, no more that 1,000 showed up with their pillows that day. When I interviewed the event organizer, she said the lack of enthusiasm was probably because it was a cold, random week while Welcome Week is when they normally have it and get the most participation because of all the eagerly involved Freshman.

It would have been nice to end the week off with a Big Buckeye Bash concert, a huge Homecoming Dance, or even a Scarlet & Gray Fashion/Talent show, but maybe that's expecting too much. So Hopefully, the new Student Union will render the University more space, freedom, and creativity to try and make Homecoming Week something worth coming home for in the years to come.

Fashionably, I was featured in the Columbus Alive newspaper this week. Take a look: http://www.columbusalive.com/live/content/features/stories/2008/10/30/ca_s_rack.html?sid=108