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The White Elephant

Today was a half-day at work, yay!

You'd think I was an ACTUAL full-time staff member and not a sustitute, lol. But when you work damn near every day, you welcome the days away from the anklebiters as much as the regular staff.

Those three hours of class moved sooooo slow. I mean, SLOW! The kids weren't bad, though. Second graders. It's nice when you sub for a teacher who knows your style, you know theirs, and the transition is somewhat seamless.

At lunchtime, we had a potluck! I contributed chewy coconut cookies (courtesy ma dukes). It was ACTUALLY a nice potluck! I even had string beans! (Me and vegetables have a tenuous relationship, lol)

During lunch, we had a White Elephant game. How it works is that everyone brings in a gift. It SHOULD be something you bring from home that may or may not be new, like maybe something you got for Christmas LAST year but didn't really want. It has to be wrapped so nobody knows what it is.

You draw a number. It is probably better to have a higher number so you can be called closer to last. The lowest number is called, and you go pick out a gift. You open it, show everyone, and sit down. The next number is called. THAT number can either TAKE YO GIFT, forcing you to pick another one from the pot, or they may take one themselves.

Thing is...there were some pretty nice gifts! Not a lot of "white elephants"....of course, my black ass gets the first real white elephant. Some junk ain't NOBODY want!!!!

The Supreme Challenge:

Bowhunting Open Country Muleys.
82 Minutes

Veteran bow hunter Mike Lapinski experiences both the frustrations and joys of stalking to within 20 yards of a trophy class mule deer buck in open country. Mike meets up with Dwight Schuh in Utah where Dwight takes a 197” mulie buck that Mike stalked within five yards of just hours before. 4 kills.

WTF???? I'm feeling the box like "Oh yeah, I'm finna get The Godfather or something in this piece!"

Nope. I, Mr. Darden, got the White Elephant.

I was a good sport, though, lol. I could tell by the reaction of my colleagues that it was like "Awww, damn Darden. Sucks to be you. Couldn'ta happened to a nicer guy."

But dammit, it sucks! LOL. Cuz what happens is NOBODY is gonna snatch a white elephant gift and give you another chance. That's the beauty of the game....

It was SUCH A FUN GAME though. Me and one of my coworkers, who I went to high school with, probably got the worst ones. Why did she get a gift bag with a roll of toilet paper and a die?

Not DICE. ONE DIE.

That shit was bananas. But we couldn't do anything but laugh. I have a picture of her with the roll, but I need to ask her permission before I link it.

The teacher I had the dream about (remember he was renovating a school house in the dream?) well, he ended up with an EMPTY ink cartridge box! And remember, these gifts were all wrapped! lololol.....but inside the box was a $25 gift certificate to a sports store. That was hot! Some other gifts were really nice too, like a picnic/wine and cheese kind of totebag thingy, candles, CD's, DVD's, etc.

I don't know WHY I am so enthused by this game, but it was the most fun I've had at a "professional" function....ever! Hands down better than the junk we used to do when I worked for the Georgetown. Okay, well, we DID go to the movies for our Christmas party the year Harry Potter came out.

I fell asleep.

ANYWAY, we then we enjoyed a full afternoon of staff development, with plenty of team building activities!

The end!

Posted by Rashid on December 17, 2004 8:18 PM

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