I’m not sure why, but I feel bad if I go longer than a week without updating this. I think part of it is that it’s supposed to pass for a semester report for the Internationalization office at UPEI, so I feel like it should be work, and part of it is that I feel like that would be like ignoring my family. So, for whatever reason, here is another brief anecdote about Ithaca.

One of the things they like doing here, at IC and apparently all over the place, is Humans Versus Zombies, or HVZ for short. It involves Nerf guns, bandanas, and some other things, but I don’t really understand the rules. In essence, the zombies chase the humans and the humans shoot the zombies. A game usually lasts about a week, full time. So people carry their Nerf guns and balled-up socks to class and meals and take up all the space on the table, but it’s all in good fun. I myself am not playing because a) I can’t handle that degree of commitment and b) I can’t muster up the amount of devotion to intentionally ridiculous behaviour that seems to be a prerequisite. Still, I get plenty of exposure to it because a few of my friends play, and I go for kind of a civilian VIP role. Since this is a school well known for its journalism program, that makes me an embedded journalist. See:

Now, earlier you may have thought, “What, Willy, you so do have that amount of devotion to intentionally ridiculous behaviour,” and to that I say, did you see that guy in the tactical vest? I didn’t even know they made those. America.