This Side of Lost

Tomorrow is All Saint's Day. Many of you know this because of the far-more-frequently-celebrated All Saint's Eve, aka All Hallow's Eve, aka Halloween. But I think you should know that tomorrow is a holiday too. It needs love just like you and me.

Yesterday Samantha and I attended the SLIS Halloween party. (I reprised my mad scientist costume that some of you may have seen last year -- Sam went as Britney Spears a la the "... Baby One More Time" video, primarily because her first idea -- Moaning Myrtle from the Harry Potter books -- didn't quite work out, but provided her with an ultra-cute school girl outfit. Raaahr.) There weren't as many literary character costumes as I had thought, but still a good number of entertaining ones. Especially couples costumes. I had never realized or even thought of the phenomenon of couples costumes before this year. What a brilliant idea. Dustin and his girlfriend Jen went as the White Stripes, for instance. Awesome!

In other news:

• The baseball season is over now. :( Umm... go Twins 2005!
• I get a desk next weekend! You can't understand how excited I am about this, unless you've seen the pathetic setup I have in my room for my computer. Picture a bunch of cardboard boxes with a mousepad and my DSL modem sitting on them, and my monitor sitting on top of an inverted milk crate. Yeah.
• Election day is the day after tomorrow. This really snuck up on me somehow. I'm going to try to take the day off of work, however, with the intention of somehow doing my civic duty of encouraging people to get to the polls. I mean, even though Indiana is doomed to send it's 9 electoral votes towards the enemy's camp, that doesn't mean we shouldn't exercise our citizen's right, does it? Does it?!? Sigh.

That's all I got. Supper calls. Happy -- err, I mean, spooky Sunday. Peace.