October 31, 2005

• Happy Halloween!!!

  

  And you know what that means… drunken madness and costumes!

  But first, on an all too serious note, I am officially taking “time off” from my PhD. After many things like this with my advisor and just a general draining of the joy the geology brings me, I have decided to go into education. If things work out, I’ll be starting a 1 year MA in teaching this summer, and be teaching 9th grade Earth Science by Fall 2007. Now, back to the fun…

  

  5 bonus points to anyone who can guess where these glowsticks are… (answer below)

  

  Friday was a special Halloween party, Sonja and Abe’s “Black and White” party, in which only Blacklights lit the house and everyone wore black or white. The low light made for few pics, but I did get one of Joe’s Batman (a costume that was off by the time I left) and Sonja’s awesome and sexy 5th Element.

  

  On Saturday, we had 3 things going. First was Alysen’s friend Spencer’s Halloween kickback… we debated much on video game philosophy and greatness, and it was fun.

  

  Here’s Spencer in some costume… many of the youngins at this party had costumes I didn’t understand or were from things I didn’t know… Damn kids and their music… (Yours truly and Aly in the background).

  

  Here’s Aly (Cheshire Cat) and I (Mad Hatter). You can’t see the 10/6 on my hatcard, but it’s there. By the way, does anyoe know what the 10/6 means on the Mad Hatter’s hat? I did find out from my roommate Winston the reason Hatters were mad is they used elemental Hg to straighten their hats, and therefore, went crazy (like the glue) over time.

  

  Next, we went from high school to grad school in party level, and therefore more crazyness and much, much, MUCH more spirits (not the scary or religious kind, the get-ya-drunk kind). This is Dave (my roommate) dressed as something and Jess dressed as cross-bedding… get it? Dave, apparently, got the most drunk and started destroying peoples’ costumes with a fake sword by night’s end.

  

  Here’s Sonja and Abe, the hosts of the previous day’s party. Everyone was strangely attracted to Abe.

  

  Here’s Naomi (lightning) and Ben (charred Boy Scout).

  

  Here’s Aaron getting busted by Katrina… there goes you’re stash…

  

  And now, the prize for best costume: Kevin and Mike as Ace and Gary, the Ambiguously Gay Duo. That still, in my mind, does not beat last year’s best costume (a WORKING giant box of wine).

  

  Brenda (soon to be Tenure-track prof at Purdue) was a 70s roller-derby girl. By the way, beer+test tubes of some other liquor+roller skates=falling down, in case you were wondering.

  

  Joe, not to be out-done by his own Batman, went with the Ducky on Saturday. Also note Katrina is still really drunk.

  

  After a few hours at the party, we headed to my devirgining at the Rocky Horror Pickture Show. It was great—something I am really glad to have experienced. Here is Steph and Garret, whom Aly and I went to the show with. If you’ve never been to Rocky Horror, I can’t really explain it, you just have to go and check it out with your own eyes. We did see Aly’s roommate’s boyfriend at the show, I guy I see all the time. Let just say I saw a lot more of him than I ever expected to see (or wanted to see).

  And now, the answer to the triva game:

  

  These breasts curtousy of Danielle, Aly’s friend. She was certainly the most popular person at the party. We had “tasks” at the party on Friday, and I got “kiss everyone and leave a lipstick mark.” I didn’t want this, so I traded with Danielle, and she ran with it. I think she kissed everyone at least twice. I just had to tell dirty jokes, which was great for me. Like this one:

  A trucker, after driving on the road for 3 weeks, pulls into a brothel in Nevada.

  He walks in, slaps down $500 on the counter and says “give me your ugliest woman and a balony sandwitch!”

  The hostess says, “For $500, you can have your pick from our best women and a full 5-course meal.”

  The trucker replys, “Damn it, I’m homesick, not horny!”

  (This joke from “The Freak Show” with Mic and Allen, KBER 101.1)

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