December 10, 2005

• White Elephant

  More pics of playing in the snow! I get these up fast for some reason…

  Animals are lucky-they never spend their time dividing experience into
  little bits and speculating about all the bits they’ve missed-the whole
  panoply of the universe has been expressed neatly to them in terms of
  things to

  (a) mate with,
  (b) eat,
  (c) run away from, and
  (d) rocks.

  This frees the mind from complicated thoughts, like Anatomy studying.
  Be that as it may, i still find time to take breaks from studying. So
  recently, A few friends and I got together and did a White Elephant
  Gift Exchange/Potluck. For those of you unfamiliar with this, the rules
  are as follows

  1)Every person should go out ahead of time, and purchase a gift of NO
  MORE THAN $10. other exchanges i have been too place the limit at 15 or
  20, but i find exciting and fun gifts can be found relatively cheaply,
  as you will discover later

  2) each person should wrap their gift prior to coming so it cannot be
  seen what it is, unless their gift is so huge or obvious, there would
  be no point to wrapping it

  3) when ready to begin, everyone who is participating should draw
  numbers out of a hat to determine the order in which they will go

  4) now the fun begins! whoever is person number 1 picks a gift from the pile brought by people and unwraps it

  5) person number 2 then has the option to either take a gift from the middl themselves, or steal person number 1′s gift.

  6) if person number one gets their gift stolen, they go back to the pile and select another gift

  7)no gift can be stolen more than twice, so if person number three
  steals the gift that person number 2 stole from person number 1, then
  the gift remains with person number three

  8) watch as hilrarity and hijinks ensue as you get down to the final person who will invariably begin a round of stealing

  So yes, we had a gift exchange and potluck. Due to foresight on my
  part, my gift was a sled (5 dollars from target!) As there was a huge
  snowstorm going on outside, we all naturally decided to make use of the
  sled that had been given. So it was out into the blizzard and the hills
  behind the dorms to make repeated sledding runs into the chain link
  fence separating us from the navy base.

  The first couple runs did not go very far or fast since the snow wasnt
  compressed, but we are medical students and smart, so we quickly packed
  down a run and put a ramp at the end of it…then because we are not
  THAT smart, we all went down the run in the sled on our bellies,
  facefirst into a giant ramp of snow

  Of course in the midst of all this, there was also a snowball fight,
  and snow tackling going on. Quite a lot of snow tackling actually…you
  know how people come back from the beach and complain that sand gets
  everywhere?

  Snow does too. And it’s colder. And it melts.

  But good times were had nonetheless and it made for a refreshing study
  break. Nothing like coming back from playing in the snow to a warm
  shower, a cup of hot cocoa, and 300 pages worth of notes on the
  abdomen, pelvis and perineum to learn by friday

  -J

  Quote of the Day
  Why don’t you eat some brains? it’s always cheered you up before-Ryan, to me, Re: playing Stubbs the Zombie for xbox

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