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Whiffle Ball, or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned To Love Interning
I believe being an intern at One Reel is much more fun than interning at your standard run-of-the-mill company. Recently our organization joined an old-school intramural sports league with other Seattle media entities KEXP, Seattle Weekly, and Frog Design. What we do is play stuff like Capture The Flag, Dodgeball and the like for an hour every couple weeks. And, of course, we spend about twice that amount of time trash-talking the other teams around the office before the games. Good times.
For our first game, we played Whiffle Ball against those hepcats at KEXP, outfitted in their cut-off jean shorts in an attempt to make us really, really uncomfortable (it worked). Obviously we beat the tiny little pants off them, because we are Bumbershoot, and that is all the reason we need. As I wrote earlier this week in an inter-office trash-talking memo, “we left the supposedly ‘cool’ folks at KEXP as so much smoldering hipster rubble.”
Last week we played another game of Whiffle Ball against Frog Design, or as we knew them, The Green Menace. I’d like to go easy on them here, and just give you the facts: I slid between someone’s legs at second base and was still safe. Bob, from Programming, jumped over the tag at second base, and was also safe. Mike, from Marketing / Sponsorship, batted a thousand for the night. We won 23-4. If that doesn’t paint an elaborate picture of the proceedings for you, just ask The Frogs, they’ll tell you: we destroyed them.
Hopefully next week, after we play Capture The Flag with Seattle Weekly, I can do a little business networking and try to get myself a job post-Bumbershoot, if I can refrain from the inevitable taunting I’ll be compelled to bombard them with. We’ll see if I can keep it together.
I guess my point is that I’m having fun interning at Bumbershoot, even if it’s sometimes doing things that are barely even related to work, like playing field-day sports and relentlessly dealing sick burns to our friends at other Seattle organizations whenever possible. I’ll be a valuable addition to the job market someday soon.
posted July 17 '08 at 01:24PM by Evan in intern
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