The Manshower

Dan and I threw our first ever manshower for a friend and former Residence Life staff member, Ryan Harmon. The guys at the party were good sports as I made them balance perilously on the fine line separating the genders. They were asked to RSVP which 100 percent of them forgot to do. They were expected to buy a shower gift which 50 percent did at the last moment when they discovered that a shower meant a shower of gifts. They were compelled to wrap the said gift with whatever scraps, papers, cardboard boxes or grocery bags that were lying around their apartments, and they got (had) to play shower party games. To make up for this scary, foreign experience, they were served a very hearty meal of steak and shrimp and pasta, which basically covered over all aforementioned sins.
Ryan's wedding took place the Saturday after Thanksgiving, and he crossed over from bachelor to married man, much to the heartache of college and career women everywhere.