Enter the Last Minute Office Costume Contest

Oct. 28, 2009—Ahoy, mateys. The UW Tacoma Communication Services team — henceforth to be known as the Patch and Band Pirates* — dressed up today in order to announce our Last Minute Office Costume Contest. We want UW Tacoma faculty and staff to dress up in costumes on Friday and send us pictures of your glorious disguises. We’ll post them on the blog Monday morning, and then YOU, the wise readers of Inside Track, will get to vote on the winner, who will receive a fabulous prize, courtesy of the Patch and Band Pirates. Maybe a treasure chest of gold doubloons or a seafaring parrot. Arrrrr.

There are some rules, though:

•These MUST be group photos, with more than one UWT staff or faculty member in costume, taken in your workspace or around UW Tacoma.

•Since this is the Last Minute Office Costume Contest, we want to see your last-minute costumes. If you slaved on it for 6 months, rented it or spent a bundle, that’s just not fair. So we want to see the costumes you can come up with using stuff you already have around the office or home. The more thrown-together, silly and embarrassing, the better.

•You must send your photos to uwtnews@uw.edu by 5 p.m. Friday.

Other than that, anything is fair game. Have fun. Don’t make us force you to walk the plank.

*You’re probably wondering what this means. UW Seattle recently released updated design standards for the entire university, with one new requirement being that most university publications now contain a “patch” (square box with the big “W”) and “band” (a stripe of color, usually black or purple, along one edge). So, we’re wearing the patch and band as our piratical eye covering. Get it? Patch and band? Eye patch? Well, the graphic designers think it’s funny. By the way, that's Jill "Mad Gypsy" Danseco, intern extraordinaire Neva "Bloody Izzy" Hutchinson, Beth "Black Layla" Luce and Brian "Captain Drake" Anderson. Try the Pirate Name Generator. It's fun.