“Wow, it looks like someone took a cheese grater soaked in hydrochloric acid and just rubbed it on your face.” So, I got a lot of stares and comments this Halloween. Holidays are always fun and I would wonder how I would adjust to the various ones while away from home. But really, Halloween has been the same as every year. It’s horribly cold, so cold, so why even think of going out for candy that just makes you sick. I have to once again, breathe threw my mouth to avoid gagging on that raunchy pumpkin gut smell. But all the while still being a show off by creating my own stencils for my jack-o-lantern face. And lastly, no close friends by to run around with in the middle of the night.

But I enjoyed it this year for a number of reasons. One, the crazy and sometimes dull Halloween costumes people came up with. Halloween should be SCARY. Oh what’s that at the door? Ohhhh a bunny! A nurse! A school girl in skimpy clothing! Yes, that all just makes me cringe and go running in fear. The boys I saw around the campus weren’t even scary or threatening. Many were cross-dressers (yes funny I guess), members of a rock band, or a construction worker. Sure, I give them all credit in being sort of creative, but I’ve seen it before. Gimme something exciting to look at on Halloween.

If I want to go see a cross dressing boy, all I need to do is go to Capital Hill in Seattle, any day of the year.

It took almost 3 hours applying fake skin, latex, an assortment of eye shadows, and fake blood to my face in order to play the part of a zombie. I put in some contacts and bullet holes and off I went to the bookstore costume contest. There I was much more pleased and humored by everyone’s costumes. Some examples; Captain Jack Sparrow, A giant glowing jellyfish, the Tick, a Bee, A superhero with a giant bobble head, a lion…and oh so many others that were great!

All in all, Jack won third, I won second, and the jellyfish first. She was very …hmm resourceful making her costume from pieces of fabric, shredded newspaper, Christmas tree lights, and what looked like bubble wrapping. I got a $50 gift card for my achievements and went on to shock my art class.

Later that night, some friends and I went to the highly antici…..pated Rocky Horror Picture Show. We were armed with toast, newspapers and a squirt bottle of water. It was MUCH more fun being in a room full of fans, screaming insulting and crude jokes at the screen, throwing toilet paper in the air and dousing people with water when appropriate. After the show was over, I was tired, sticky and full of those mini Reese’s cups that you can’t help but eat a million of. It took me an hour to get everything washed off and I just noticed some gunk bleeding from my ear that I missed.

All in all, I hope someone can scare me next year, more then I did them.