Your mission, which you have no choice but to accept.
Contributed by David Mansfield on 16 August 2005 at 12:03Like Python's Lancelot, the fall semester seems to draw ever nearer without ever getting here. Nonetheless, it will arrive eventually, and the last thing members of the Crew want is to be taken by surprise and stabbed in the stomach by John Cleese. So, we must take steps to prepare.
Veterans have their assignments for the training session, and they should fulfill these tasks as they would their casework, at the last minute and under tremendous stress.
The new members, though, should not feel left out, for they too will be responsible for several crucial elements of the coming meeting. These numbered points are ordered for members old and new alike:
1. All members should bring their schedules to the session. I likely could reiterate this too much, but I haven't yet.
2. There will be ice-breakers involving the revelation of innocuous personal information. To prepare as best as possible for these and maintain a smooth flow, members should exhaustively catalog every possible aspect of their biographies and personalities.
3. The Crew is always in need of marketing, and members should come prepared with ideas for posters and other such cunning name-exposure schemes.
I have no doubt that I missed something. Check back in the future for further assignments.