Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Scavenging
This last Friday was my firm's annual smackdown: the Scavenger Hunt. All the summer associates, and many associates and partners were recruited for the escapade and divided into four teams. My team named itself according to what we thought was going to be a Harry Potter theme: The Team That Must Not Be Named. The week preceding the hunt was filled with all sorts of trash talk about who was going to win the hunt, and the hunt itself didn't disappoint.
After being judged on building a model of what to do with the first floor of our building, we had a couple of hours to head up to Capitol Hill and do a lot of crazy stuff. Some of it was simple like get a father's day card, take a picture of some stranger with a fashion faux pas, or figure out as few degrees of separation as possible between Pierce Brosnan and Vince Vaughn. Some of it was next-to-impossible, like take a picture of a summer associate with a Supreme Court Justice. I spent a lot of the time running around the Hart Senate Building, collecting staff business cards (worth 5 points each) and Senator business cards (worth 40 points each). It would have been a lot easier if it had been earlier in the day. 6:30 on a Friday just isn't the best time to try to get into a Senatorial office. After the hunt, there were even more events: trivia contest, food eating contest, and guess-how-many-cicadas-in-the-jar contest (I guessed too high).
As it turned out, one more Senator's card and we would have won. We came in second by a margin of 35 points, on a scale that reached into the thousands.
My friends are beginning to ask me, "Do you ever do any work at this firm?"
After being judged on building a model of what to do with the first floor of our building, we had a couple of hours to head up to Capitol Hill and do a lot of crazy stuff. Some of it was simple like get a father's day card, take a picture of some stranger with a fashion faux pas, or figure out as few degrees of separation as possible between Pierce Brosnan and Vince Vaughn. Some of it was next-to-impossible, like take a picture of a summer associate with a Supreme Court Justice. I spent a lot of the time running around the Hart Senate Building, collecting staff business cards (worth 5 points each) and Senator business cards (worth 40 points each). It would have been a lot easier if it had been earlier in the day. 6:30 on a Friday just isn't the best time to try to get into a Senatorial office. After the hunt, there were even more events: trivia contest, food eating contest, and guess-how-many-cicadas-in-the-jar contest (I guessed too high).
As it turned out, one more Senator's card and we would have won. We came in second by a margin of 35 points, on a scale that reached into the thousands.
My friends are beginning to ask me, "Do you ever do any work at this firm?"
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