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sketchyheart and my sister and countless crazy cosplayers!! But, the point of this entry now is to catch you up on my crazy life these past two days.
So... we've got Scav Hunt. The world's largest Scavenger Hunt. Which, in the end at judgement, feels an awful lot like the DI/OM tournaments of old. People standing around rehersing, doing crazy things, bounding around, patching things up with duct tape. So, Judgement day was fun. But I should start from the beginning. I basically skipped everything on Friday to catch up on my editing. Luckily that didn't get me into too much trouble. Saturday I got up and sat around for a bit catching up on shows that I hadn't watched yet. Then I went to softball, which we won by forfeit because the other team didn't have any girls. We played anyway, and actually got creamed because it was a team of about seven rather good guys (and an 8th that had never played before that they shouted instructions to in Spanish). Afterwards I wandered over to Scav Olympics and watched it for a bit as people scarfed down massive amounts of White Castle burgers (the guy who won apparently ate a pound and a half of onions two years ago... doesn't surprise me). I was going to stick around for spud gun golf and the trebuchet launching, but I ended up getting dragged off to look for lunch and just stuck around the dorm for a bit. Actually, a lot of Saturday after that doesn't leap immediately to mind, but I do remember falling asleep somewhere around 8 with my Marx book. I believe I did a few random things here and there, nothing major. Did a bit of research on some items.
Then, around 9:30ish my friend on the emergency team came by and told me that they still needed a completely edible printing press. We ran to the co-op to buy a bag of potatoes and to pick up a few other things for the team (like the head of broccoli that would become the... er... broze bust of Terri Schaivo paperweight). We came back with our potatoes and food colouring and proceeded to carve letters into them for a good... oh, four hours. Meanwhile two other people were cutting out our deck of UofC: The Gathering cards (that my roomie spent a good five hours plus fooling around in photoshop on half of). They were awesome, by the way. Probably the item someone put the most time into. I think around 2:30ish after carving an apple pi I ended up heading back to my room and crashing.
I absolutely meant to wake up at 7:15 to do the Ax costume, but unfortunately I must've just grabbed my alarm when it woke me up, because I woke up at 10 cuddling with it. Yeah. So, I took a shower and then wandered over to headquarters, where I immediately got wrapped up in moving all the items to someone's car. We had a dentist's chair. It did not fit in the car. So, after moving the Fruit F*cker 4000 (or whatever) to the car, one of the guys and I took the chair on the cart on a ride down the street towards Ida. At 11:30 in the afternoon. On a beautiful sunny 70-something-degree day when the streets are full of people. And this thing was old and looked menacing. I've got no idea where they got it or how it ended up in the Shoreland, but rumour has it we built it (which is crazy). So. We got it about a block before we hit a hole and dumped it out. We called our captain to send us help but she was driving so she couldn't. We tried valiantly to get it back on the dolly it was on, but to no avail since we are both pretty small people. Thankfully some random construction guy and a jogger helped us out, laughing all the while. I absolutely loved the looks people made at us as we pushed it down 55th street. It was beautifully weird. I wish someone had gotten pictures. By the time we got to Lake Park our captain brought us back-ups and things went faster from there on out (even though we lost it at least twice more and tore the crap out of the bottom of the cart). They were two UT-techie guys who sang showtunes on the way there (on the dentist chair theme, no less), and one of them recognized my SMRPG ringtone when my phone rang. Oddly, he didn't recognize the chocobo song the secon time it rang, but oh well. Still oodles of cool.
We finally got to Ida, I ran off to get lunch and called my mom, then wandered back to Ida. They still hadn't done much judging, so I helped some of the team set up things here and there. I was supposed to have done the Andalite costume for them, and would have if I hadn't been roped into the printing press (which, to be fair, was worth a lot more points). Thankfully they brought a ton of blue fabric with them to judgement and we were able to wing it (I even kidnapped the duct tape sword that had been hanging in headquarters for no reason and had been turned into our Guitar Wolf guitar-sword before we found a fencing... epee or sabre or something that was part of the Pilates of the Caribbean and made it into the tail blade). I gave the poor guy a semi-crazed crash course in how to behave like Ax and we did him half-morphed enough to eat the cinnabon (lazy us). It was hilarious to see so many eyestalks around during judgement. Letsee... as for high-lights, someone's brassiere of elemental summoning had actual gas powered flames jetting from the breasts. There was a girl covered in maple syrup (which I guess answers my eternal question in her case) dancing on a pole above an "Adult-themed sit-n-spin." Our Fruit F*cker 2000 actually impaled fruit on a sharp phalice. We fried an egg on a sidewalk in our brassiere of elemental summoning (which was a bra full of coals and set on fire). Everything was ghetto-tastic and it was a lot of fun save for alternating between sitting and really needing to sit (I was tired, I think I still only got 6 hours of sleep).
In the end I think we finished fourth. Somehow despite having a 39-point difference Max and Snitchcock ended up tied. Which isn't fair because Snitchcock basically forces everyone to participate and Max has infinite resources. Hehehe. Someday we'll be able to talk more than about fifty people in this dorm of 600 into doing Scav. Maybe. Not like it was hard to get me to do it (give me a year of no fun and make headquarters on my floor). And hey, people on the Scav team recognized my ringtones (first out of everyone here) and appreciated my Dump Truck Tree shirt without knowing the joke. (I think they said "I've got no idea what your shirt means, but it's awesome"). Yay! Then I came back here and had to edit another episode of PoT.
So, in summary, this weekend I have:
- edited two episodes of PoT in one day
- made a chastity belt out of plastic and duct tape
- made a fully-edible printing press
- an apple pi
- attempted and failed to make custard no less than three times
- cuddled my alarm clock rather than waking up
- pushed a dentist chair almost a mile
- edited a double-episode of PoT after all this
I'm going to go take a shower and die now. And by die I mean catch up on my reading for class.
Oh, and in case you haven't seen it, the scav list is here in one large pdf file. Yay!
sketchyheart and my sister and countless crazy cosplayers!! But, the point of this entry now is to catch you up on my crazy life these past two days.So... we've got Scav Hunt. The world's largest Scavenger Hunt. Which, in the end at judgement, feels an awful lot like the DI/OM tournaments of old. People standing around rehersing, doing crazy things, bounding around, patching things up with duct tape. So, Judgement day was fun. But I should start from the beginning. I basically skipped everything on Friday to catch up on my editing. Luckily that didn't get me into too much trouble. Saturday I got up and sat around for a bit catching up on shows that I hadn't watched yet. Then I went to softball, which we won by forfeit because the other team didn't have any girls. We played anyway, and actually got creamed because it was a team of about seven rather good guys (and an 8th that had never played before that they shouted instructions to in Spanish). Afterwards I wandered over to Scav Olympics and watched it for a bit as people scarfed down massive amounts of White Castle burgers (the guy who won apparently ate a pound and a half of onions two years ago... doesn't surprise me). I was going to stick around for spud gun golf and the trebuchet launching, but I ended up getting dragged off to look for lunch and just stuck around the dorm for a bit. Actually, a lot of Saturday after that doesn't leap immediately to mind, but I do remember falling asleep somewhere around 8 with my Marx book. I believe I did a few random things here and there, nothing major. Did a bit of research on some items.
Then, around 9:30ish my friend on the emergency team came by and told me that they still needed a completely edible printing press. We ran to the co-op to buy a bag of potatoes and to pick up a few other things for the team (like the head of broccoli that would become the... er... broze bust of Terri Schaivo paperweight). We came back with our potatoes and food colouring and proceeded to carve letters into them for a good... oh, four hours. Meanwhile two other people were cutting out our deck of UofC: The Gathering cards (that my roomie spent a good five hours plus fooling around in photoshop on half of). They were awesome, by the way. Probably the item someone put the most time into. I think around 2:30ish after carving an apple pi I ended up heading back to my room and crashing.
I absolutely meant to wake up at 7:15 to do the Ax costume, but unfortunately I must've just grabbed my alarm when it woke me up, because I woke up at 10 cuddling with it. Yeah. So, I took a shower and then wandered over to headquarters, where I immediately got wrapped up in moving all the items to someone's car. We had a dentist's chair. It did not fit in the car. So, after moving the Fruit F*cker 4000 (or whatever) to the car, one of the guys and I took the chair on the cart on a ride down the street towards Ida. At 11:30 in the afternoon. On a beautiful sunny 70-something-degree day when the streets are full of people. And this thing was old and looked menacing. I've got no idea where they got it or how it ended up in the Shoreland, but rumour has it we built it (which is crazy). So. We got it about a block before we hit a hole and dumped it out. We called our captain to send us help but she was driving so she couldn't. We tried valiantly to get it back on the dolly it was on, but to no avail since we are both pretty small people. Thankfully some random construction guy and a jogger helped us out, laughing all the while. I absolutely loved the looks people made at us as we pushed it down 55th street. It was beautifully weird. I wish someone had gotten pictures. By the time we got to Lake Park our captain brought us back-ups and things went faster from there on out (even though we lost it at least twice more and tore the crap out of the bottom of the cart). They were two UT-techie guys who sang showtunes on the way there (on the dentist chair theme, no less), and one of them recognized my SMRPG ringtone when my phone rang. Oddly, he didn't recognize the chocobo song the secon time it rang, but oh well. Still oodles of cool.
We finally got to Ida, I ran off to get lunch and called my mom, then wandered back to Ida. They still hadn't done much judging, so I helped some of the team set up things here and there. I was supposed to have done the Andalite costume for them, and would have if I hadn't been roped into the printing press (which, to be fair, was worth a lot more points). Thankfully they brought a ton of blue fabric with them to judgement and we were able to wing it (I even kidnapped the duct tape sword that had been hanging in headquarters for no reason and had been turned into our Guitar Wolf guitar-sword before we found a fencing... epee or sabre or something that was part of the Pilates of the Caribbean and made it into the tail blade). I gave the poor guy a semi-crazed crash course in how to behave like Ax and we did him half-morphed enough to eat the cinnabon (lazy us). It was hilarious to see so many eyestalks around during judgement. Letsee... as for high-lights, someone's brassiere of elemental summoning had actual gas powered flames jetting from the breasts. There was a girl covered in maple syrup (which I guess answers my eternal question in her case) dancing on a pole above an "Adult-themed sit-n-spin." Our Fruit F*cker 2000 actually impaled fruit on a sharp phalice. We fried an egg on a sidewalk in our brassiere of elemental summoning (which was a bra full of coals and set on fire). Everything was ghetto-tastic and it was a lot of fun save for alternating between sitting and really needing to sit (I was tired, I think I still only got 6 hours of sleep).
In the end I think we finished fourth. Somehow despite having a 39-point difference Max and Snitchcock ended up tied. Which isn't fair because Snitchcock basically forces everyone to participate and Max has infinite resources. Hehehe. Someday we'll be able to talk more than about fifty people in this dorm of 600 into doing Scav. Maybe. Not like it was hard to get me to do it (give me a year of no fun and make headquarters on my floor). And hey, people on the Scav team recognized my ringtones (first out of everyone here) and appreciated my Dump Truck Tree shirt without knowing the joke. (I think they said "I've got no idea what your shirt means, but it's awesome"). Yay! Then I came back here and had to edit another episode of PoT.
So, in summary, this weekend I have:
- edited two episodes of PoT in one day
- made a chastity belt out of plastic and duct tape
- made a fully-edible printing press
- an apple pi
- attempted and failed to make custard no less than three times
- cuddled my alarm clock rather than waking up
- pushed a dentist chair almost a mile
- edited a double-episode of PoT after all this
I'm going to go take a shower and die now. And by die I mean catch up on my reading for class.
Oh, and in case you haven't seen it, the scav list is here in one large pdf file. Yay!
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