GISHWhat?

[ladysprite]

So for those who haven't heard, I've been spending the past several days taking part in GIsHwHES, an utterly absurd, bizarre, awesome international scavenger hunt.

I heard about this event a couple of years ago, and have been angling for a way to participate since then, and this year I finally found a spot on a team.

Since it started on Saturday I've taken indoor appliances outside, covered children in tinfoil, done more things with construction paper than I have since I was ten, spent more time with my aunt and cousins than I have in the past three years, learned that you can't fit a coffin in a Honda civic, found out just how much butter it takes to butter up a good friend, met up with strange men in dark parking lots, agreed to do something I haven't done since 1990, plotted civil disobedience, and made the phone staff at at least two businesses ask me if I was a prank caller.

I've also slept maybe six hours a night, and have been living mostly on popsicles, fast food, and frenetic energy.  And I can't remember the last time I've had this much fun.

Y'all, this is abnosome.

Comments

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

That does sound bizarre and amusing. I'd never heard of GiShWhEs before, so thank you!

[iamjw.livejournal.com]

Oh man. I look at it every year and it's such a wonderful idea and sooooo not the kind of thing I'd be at all comfortable doing! Good for you for taking it on. I'm glad to hear you had a ball.

[evcelt.livejournal.com]

Sounds highly entertaining... I'm glad this exists!

[johnpalmer.livejournal.com]

I know your life isn't always wonderful, but there are parts that are truly amazingly awesomely so.