[phas-dept] Holiday Party

[Matt Wood]

Hi, All:

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 get BBQ from Ernies BBQ in Greenville for the meats.  We could use some help on identifying where in town to get a reasonable amount of good vegetarian food, so if that’s you please come talk with Melisa or me.

I’m hoping that some of you can bring deserts.  If maybe 25% of you bring a small side dish or desert it should be great!

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!

M

Matt A. Wood, Ph.D.
Professor and Department Head
Physics & Astronomy Department
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Commerce, TX 75429
O: 903.886.5487     M: 903.269.6682



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