. . . After dinner I realized that I hadn't read the frog article that we were supposed to get quizzed on the next day. Not good. Luckily, I was rooming with Nisha and she had it. I went down to Andrew and Marion's room with Amy to read it out loud so everyone could take notes. Marion wasn't there, but Chris, Erinn, and Jim were. I read the 11-page article while everyone took notes. It was really long, but it was funny because it was about frog sex. After we finished with the article, Erinn and Jim left, Nisha came in and then (here it gets good), Marion came in and goes into the bathroom, walks out, and promptly falls asleep on top of his bag about 3 feet away from his bed! So he's practically in a coma on top on this bag, and he looks so peaceful that we just have to disturb him. Plus there were ants all over the floor, and we didn't want him to get all covered with them. So we try to wake him up. Nisha's got the camera by now, and Marion's mumbling something about how caffeine does replace sleep. When he half-wakes up, he tries to get drugs out of his bag, and we stop him from taking a whole bottle of pills that he poured into his hand. Then he tries to go to sleep on a closet. We try to lure him into the bed, but he insists on going outside and immediately falls asleep on a table. Finally Andrew convinced big baby Marion to get into bed. It was sooo hilarious. Chris wrote a story about Big Baby Marion's sleepytime adventure. And we got the whole thing on tape. Even after Marion went to sleep, we stayed in the room talking. It was one of the most fun experiences of the trip, but fun in a different way. Less exhilarating, more interesting. We finally went to sleep at 2am.

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