A Girl With a Sword

playing games

Last night at two a.m. some friends and I decided we had far too much energy to just go to bed, so we called up people around campus and asked them to play Red Rover with us on the chapel lawn. I didn't expect many people to show up. I underestimated the nocturnality of the campus. It was so much fun playing a childhood game in the middle of the night with a group of about twenty-five people from halls ranging from Third Central to Five Points. After the Red Rover game started leaning too much toward one team the game turned into Crack-the-Whip, led by Ethan. Now that was crazy, being spun off into the dark by the momentum, stumbling around holding people's hands that I hardly knew. These are the moments I live for at Covenant, these spontanious moments of unity in random events.

We played Crack-the-Whip again after chapel today, to show the Mac Scholar candidates what they're really getting themselves into. Dr. Barker played with us for one crack.

I think it's funny what games catch on at Covenant. Lately Jon's been bringing a bag of Scrabble letters to dinner everynight and challenging anyone who will play to games of Squabble. People have been getting addicted, a friend of mine came to dinner the other night demanding to know where Jon was because he hadn't played Squabble in a day. It's a great way to waste time at dinner. It's interesting to see who's attracted to the game, too, and more than that who's good at it. It's all about being able to see words in mixtures of letters, and I'm not very visual so I have a hard time getting it, but some unexpected people get it right away. Playing games with people really makes me enjoy them so much more.