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capture the flag and stuff
So I went to campus around 5pm because jcreed had visited Whizbang, and we walked to campus and met up with Noble and Nick and went to Boston Market for dinner. Mmm, mashed potatoes. We played bridge for an hour afterwards, and then went to the Capture the Stuff with Flags game.
My god, there were over a hundred people there. It was amazing, we filled up Wean 7500.
The game itself was a lot of fun. First game I was defense on the Doherty team. I got to hide a flag. I hid it on the third floor front and got two freshmen to guard it with me. Nobody got anywhere near it - we covered the hallway really well. Unfortunately, it was the fake flag. Damn. We lost when they found our real flag.
What is annoying is how we lost. A new item or two were added this year. One was the "Chastity Belt", which basically has the function that you cannot be tagged by members of the opposite sex while wearing it. You can't carry a flag or be part of the goomba belt wearing it or tag people of the opposite sex either. Anyway... so my flag was guarded by two guys and a girl, but the other flag was entirely guarded by guys. Laura Marsh came in wearing the belt and basically said "Hey look, your flag. Oh look, you can't tag me. Ha ha ha ha."
So the second game we specifically said "Ok, and at least one girl defends each flag. Plplplpl."
The second game I was on offense and defense, as the Wean team. Carl got to hide a flag and had a similar experience wherein it was very well guarded and nobody got it, but it turned out to be the fake and the other team won yet again. I got to do random scavenging of Doherty, including one trip where I was part of Goomba but wearing the Chastity Belt. So Mark and I broke off and kept singing and faked me having Goomba. He got caught and I got away. I thought I was in a dead end, but it turned out I wasn't... I got onto a fire escape and got out of Doherty and came in through the first floor, and managed to get through the entirety of the D-level subbasement on my own. Then I got locked out of Wean because of the card system. (I managed to pick it, but that's another story) Anyway, I got back to the jail to report on my findings only to find another game over. Doh!
Oh, it was weird. I talked to this guy Dave for a while, who it turns out I should have known from when he was at CMU a while ago, but I swear that I didn't remember him. He is a grad student now, though, so shrug.
Carl and I played one jail break of the third game and then quit to go watch the McConomy movie of the evening, "Legally Blonde" with Reese Witherspoon. It was quite good and I enjoyed it a lot! Very funny stuff, with a lot less of the "MTV Movie" feeling I had gotten from _Election_ a few years ago when we watched it.
I guess some explanations might be necessary anyway: the goomba belt is this thing you wear and sing "Yankee Doodle" at the top of your lungs while skipping around. It prevents you from being tagged from the other team (unless you stop skipping or singing, or it gets dispelled). Hmm.. I didn't mention much else. You can find more details about CTFWS on cmukgb.org.
On another note, did I mention that I did a good deed today? I saw a listing for a Senior Human Resources position on the CMU job postings bboard and I forwarded it to Sandy, who is now psyched and getting her resume to them on Monday and stuff. Yay! I hope she gets the job, then she could take more classes, and also, probly won't have to lay herself off again anytime soon... (Sandy was the HR manager at Claritech, the company I worked at until February when they laid off 90% of the employees including the HR manager.)
My god, there were over a hundred people there. It was amazing, we filled up Wean 7500.
The game itself was a lot of fun. First game I was defense on the Doherty team. I got to hide a flag. I hid it on the third floor front and got two freshmen to guard it with me. Nobody got anywhere near it - we covered the hallway really well. Unfortunately, it was the fake flag. Damn. We lost when they found our real flag.
What is annoying is how we lost. A new item or two were added this year. One was the "Chastity Belt", which basically has the function that you cannot be tagged by members of the opposite sex while wearing it. You can't carry a flag or be part of the goomba belt wearing it or tag people of the opposite sex either. Anyway... so my flag was guarded by two guys and a girl, but the other flag was entirely guarded by guys. Laura Marsh came in wearing the belt and basically said "Hey look, your flag. Oh look, you can't tag me. Ha ha ha ha."
So the second game we specifically said "Ok, and at least one girl defends each flag. Plplplpl."
The second game I was on offense and defense, as the Wean team. Carl got to hide a flag and had a similar experience wherein it was very well guarded and nobody got it, but it turned out to be the fake and the other team won yet again. I got to do random scavenging of Doherty, including one trip where I was part of Goomba but wearing the Chastity Belt. So Mark and I broke off and kept singing and faked me having Goomba. He got caught and I got away. I thought I was in a dead end, but it turned out I wasn't... I got onto a fire escape and got out of Doherty and came in through the first floor, and managed to get through the entirety of the D-level subbasement on my own. Then I got locked out of Wean because of the card system. (I managed to pick it, but that's another story) Anyway, I got back to the jail to report on my findings only to find another game over. Doh!
Oh, it was weird. I talked to this guy Dave for a while, who it turns out I should have known from when he was at CMU a while ago, but I swear that I didn't remember him. He is a grad student now, though, so shrug.
Carl and I played one jail break of the third game and then quit to go watch the McConomy movie of the evening, "Legally Blonde" with Reese Witherspoon. It was quite good and I enjoyed it a lot! Very funny stuff, with a lot less of the "MTV Movie" feeling I had gotten from _Election_ a few years ago when we watched it.
I guess some explanations might be necessary anyway: the goomba belt is this thing you wear and sing "Yankee Doodle" at the top of your lungs while skipping around. It prevents you from being tagged from the other team (unless you stop skipping or singing, or it gets dispelled). Hmm.. I didn't mention much else. You can find more details about CTFWS on cmukgb.org.
On another note, did I mention that I did a good deed today? I saw a listing for a Senior Human Resources position on the CMU job postings bboard and I forwarded it to Sandy, who is now psyched and getting her resume to them on Monday and stuff. Yay! I hope she gets the job, then she could take more classes, and also, probly won't have to lay herself off again anytime soon... (Sandy was the HR manager at Claritech, the company I worked at until February when they laid off 90% of the employees including the HR manager.)