Halloween '07

Halloween was pretty badass this year. Costumes are always fun, but coordinated/themed costumes are awesome. I went as the Tin Man, along with Dorothy and The Scarecrow. We found a Lion at the house party to which we went (fking Churchill criticizing my grammar from the afterlife). Mario & Luigi, Link & Zelda, Priest & Altar Boy, Itachi (custom contacts and all) & Sasuke, and The Ghostbusters were all in attendance. Despite being a house party, it wasn’t over crowded or too hot, and I got just wasted enough.

I guess that’s really all I have to say about that.

Today there were tons and tons of children, surprisingly mostly under the age of 6, around the office (with their parents of course). There were miniature ninjas, frogs, lions, dinosaurs, tigers, raccoons, and pumpkins all over the place. I left the candy in a chair outside the office and put on the headphones so I could get things done, but headphones couldn’t stop them. For example, I was interrupted by Superman wandering into my office and shoving me until he got my attention. Later, some high school kids were just flying through the halls collecting candy in their pillowcases. All of these shenanigans were set right by my very last visitors. By this point in the evening, almost everyone had cleared out of the building. A mother, an auntie really, stopped by with her two daughters. I can’t remember what the older one was dressed as, but she wasn’t collecting candy, she was collecting change for UNICEF. Badass. The younger one couldn’t have been older than two. She was dressed as a pumpkin, and insisted on trading a hand-melted MilkyWay (packing completely intact) for the last bag of M&M’s. She whined and pouted until the trade was complete. I was moved.

I had to work till 11 to finish everything I was supposed to finish during the day. I was not so moved.