Cameron, the Vandals' reputation for partyin' is greatly exaggerated. The REAL problem is the nightly invasion of Moscow by children of all ages from that other place across the border by King County's "permanent adolescents."
I worked at both places, often simultaneously, as well as having a huge home garden, a contract editing enterprise, weekend scrap metal gathering in the Palouse's many machinery graveyards, gold sniping and garnet digging in ID, selling coyote pelts and upland bird skins, you name it. Your part of the world is a hard place to make a livin' in, especially if you have no marketable skills (i.e. English major...)! But it is darn fun tryin'.