I'm living in the dark this evening, at least until around 9:00 when all rational parents have their ghosts, goblins, fairies, and other such little beasties indoors. I feel bad about this. I do. Really, I love Halloween. But it is a contained love. My costume of the past 3-4 years has mainly been black nail polish (Incidentally, that is basically the only time/color I will wear said polish. Don't ask me to explain.*). I love it when people dress up in really clever outfits, I just chose not to. So, when the venerable All Hallows Eve arrives and the house is sans candy, you live in the dark. I know it is poor Halloween form, especially given the fact that for the first time in 7 years I'm not in a neighborhood that is either a) surrounded by drunken droves of college students roaming the streets in costume or b) surrounded by the extras of Deadwood and on the edge of Thunderdome. But I'm totally and completely unprepared. Such is life.
R!'s comment, conveyed in a sing-song voice: "Sittin' in the dark, hidin' from the children!"
*I just had a thought... perhaps the black nail polish is, in fact, a sign of mourning as Halloween marks the last day of October, the best month of the year.
10.31.2006
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I join you in mourning October. Suddenly we have to haul out the winter coats.
it's supposed to be 2`C tomorrow. And windy. This is only the beginning fall though - Summer doesn't technically end until Daylight Savings, and winter begins at Epiphany. Or something like that.
It started raining in the southern Bay Area tonight...the sunny skies will soon disappear. The witches and warlocks did their jobs last night!
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