Halloween in it's Gory -- I mean, Glory

I have had a very full weekend (weekend meaning starting from about 2:20 on Friday to now).

First, on Friday, I witnessed my first violent political act. I didn't think it made much of a difference if I kept my "Yes on Prop 8" sticker in the front of my binder instead of in the back -- apparently, there is a BIG difference. After a girl in my 6th period Oceanography class stared at me in disgust for about 10 seconds, she took it back to her desk on the other side of the room, cut it up with scissors and burned in on a bunson burner. For the record, we had a substitute, and we had all finished the assigned work in about the first 5 minutes of class, so it was one of those "be-loud-and-sleep" days.

As for Halloween night, my Halloween was pretty wonderful, actually. It started out with me reporting to my school's color guard room at 5:30 pm to practice for the football game performance. It was not fun in the least -- no one ever watches us during football games, they only ever get up to buy food, talk loudly to their neighbors, or (when they are bothered enough to spare a passing glance at us) laugh when we drop a sabre. Oh, how we love them so.

Afterwards, I took a quick shower, and headed over to Ben's house for Halloween. His mother pretty much made every Halloween-themed candy/food ever created by man or beast, filling about three tables worth of candy. But, as I was starving, I didn't have reason to complain. I didn't have a costume, but my friend Megan dressed up as Captain Hammer from Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, and Ben dressed up as a Dr. Horrible fan with a shirt made by Alex.

Here's a photo of Megan and Ben playing "Paper Mario" on Ben's Wii. (Well, I played too, but I had taken a break to eat some dinner.)

Here's a photo OF Paper Mario. Me, going for the laughs as always, had an enjoyable time coming up with voices for all the characters, which lasted about 10 minutes before I got REALLY hungry.


Alex the Antisocial (a term so lovingly bestowed unto him) managed to carve this GORGOUS Sweeney Todd pumpkin, which I find wonderful but sort of weird, as Mr. Martin told me it had all been done in one night.

Here's Ben looking WAY too happy.

And here is a rather magnificent photo of Ben's hair.



Later that night we watched "The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" while I curled up on the Martins' VERY squishy couch in a very soft blanket. But, after I started twiddling my glowstick and drifting off in the couch, we figured it was time to leave.