[phas-dept] Holiday Party TOMORROW!

[Matt Wood]

Hi, All:

One last reminder:

We’re planning to have a Holiday Party for the department on Dec 8 at 4pm in the lobby of the building.  I hope you can all make it.  We’ll have BBQ and a vegetarian dish.  

We’ll plan on having the “White Elephant” gift exchange starting at about 5.

Here’s how it works

1) If you want to participate, you must bring a wrapped gift (can be in a gift bag or box - as long as it is not obviously identifiable). The gift should cost $10 if you purchase it new, but this is also your chance to regift something!  The funnier the better.

2) Gifts are placed in a group/pile. 
3) We draw numbers.
4) Numer 1 selects a gift from the pile, unwraps.
5) Person 2 can select from the pile, or can steal the gift from person 1.
     If person 1’s gift is stolen, he/she gets new gift from the pile
6) Person 3 can steal from 1 or 2 or take from the pile.  
7) Anytime your gift is stolen you can either steal from another or get from the pile
8) Max steals per item is 3, so the third person to steal an item gets to keep it.
9) At the end, Person number 1 has the option to steal from anybody (exchange, or cascade of steals).

It’s less complicated in practice!

Matt