Item #0: Drama. [Infinite Drama Points]

I forgot about the drama that surrounds Scav. Well, I didn't forget, but I hadn't had to think about it in a while. I suppose it is necessary for such an endeavor, having drama within the team. But I think that is why I liked being a team member better than being a captain. As a member, I didn't need to worry about not only who was free to do road trip, but which team would work best together, and who would be offended if they didn't get to go, and all that.

My second year, the first year I was captain, we had a lot of trouble finding people and a car for road trip. Shannon was willing to go, and Ben could be convinced. Melissa also wanted to go, which was good since she was a first year then. But who was the fourth?

Nick had a car, which we still didn't have. It was a newish car that he might be reluctant to use, but we thought we could push him into it, which we did. But then C wanted to go.

Ok, so C: she went my first year with her boyfriend R, Shannon, and Josie. Which was fine. Until C went insane over an item (that is, they were somewhere in New Jersey, in the middle of Scav, trying to complete an item so they could turn back and come home) and started strangling R. Now C is perhaps 110 pounds, max, likely less, and R is at least 200. C is strangling R, while Shannon and Josie look on trying to figure out how to deal with the situation. In the end, R was understandably unhurt, and they managed to get back on time.

But, the point was that C simply was not going to go on road trip; we (the captains) couldn't take the chance that she would flip out even a few hours into a three-day-long, stress-filled road trip to God-knows-where. But, Nick lives with C, and yet Nick and C felt the need to communicate on each others' blogs, so that everyone could see what they were telling each other. And Nick offered to, in effect, ransom his car for C's ability to go on road trip. As in: C goes or no one goes.

This whole thing happened a few weeks before Scav, maybe even later. That was not a anxiety-free day. In the end Nick backed down, but I vowed never to let such a dramatic situation develop.

Of course, that is like vowing never to get behind on work - it somehow always happens.