Sunday, July 13, 2008

In the shower

Some of my best thinking is done in the shower (I don't think I'm alone in this, though I am alone in the shower...). So I was thinking about how the Fine Arts and Humanities faculty and students might get together in ways other than sitting in meetings. Have some fun. Fool around. And I was thinking about how we might play out our differences.

  • Tug-of-war between Fine Arts on one side and Humanities on the other (and just what does the rope represent? Or the mud hole in the middle, for that matter?).
  • Spelling bee using each others' jargonisms.
  • Trivial Pursuit sudden-death tournament between departments leading to Division Champs--but questions can only come from outside our respective fields.
  • Three-legged sack races with a Humanities major or faculty member in the sack (so to speak) with a Fine Arts major or faculty member.
  • Dionysus vs. Apollo in a duel to the death, with commentary over loudspeakers and hords of fans, ending in a fine melee for all.

Surely other, more imaginative people can come up with better ideas than these! Anyone?

(I'm deadly serious about all this.)

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