Happy Halloween!

The icon I'm using is adapted from http://mware.ca/~cdelaney/WebPhotos/dustpuppy/S3000311.JPG (via User Friendly).

I have no costume. Jodi was the Cat in the Hat, as you know, but isn't dressing up for school today.

We bought some candy last night, in anticipation of our usual lame turnout. I guess I'll bring the torch lamps near the door to simultaneously provide good lighting for photos and also make it harder for the little TOTs to see that our place is a mess.

Yeah, I'm depressed today. The Halloween party I look forward to all year was canceled because of the hurricane, I didn't get to work out all weekend, I forgot to weigh in (and I'm afraid of what it'd say anyway), I forgot to take Strattera this morning, and I haven't even felt like making a costume. I'll probably just write "BOO!" on an old T-shirt, put on some shorts, and wrap myself in my long trenchcoat so that I can be a flasher.

I've already had about half a honeydew for breakfast, plus two egg-salad sandwiches, a long rice krispies bar, and smoked almonds. If this is a protein deficiency like last time, the protein in the eggs and almonds haven't helped a damn bit. Honestly, it could be from the lack of exercise. The last time I worked out, I felt great mentally and physically -- totally sharp.

If you're paying attention, you'll have noticed that I'm still in here somewhere with my usual imagination and wit (the costume idea, the icon I made). But I'm under a real wet blanket of a mood that I wish I could get out from under. (Choke on those sentence-final prepositions, grammar prescriptivists.)

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This comic strip (contains puerile and NSFW language) does cheer me up, for a few minutes at least, but if you read it I think you'll see why I don't consider that proof that I'm sane. ;)

Interview by magnoliafly

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1. If you could play a role on a TV series/movie who would it be?
   
   Oh, I guess I'd like to be the live-action Comic Book Guy, or, when I've lost enough weight, Professor Frink.
   
   
2. What bad habit would you like to lose?
   
   Sloppy to nonexistent documentation.
   
   
3. What fantastic invention have you thought of that you'd like to share with the world?
   
   Anonymous library cards.
   
   
4. If you could be best friends with anyone (live or dead) throughout history who would it be?
   
   Elizabeth I would have been a pretty interesting best friend. I doubt she'd share my fascination with blogs, though, and she was apparently a bit high-strung. That would annoy me. I don't really know. My first thoughts were "Jesus Christ" and "Jodi", although I'm not sure either of those will actually ever happen. All I can do is keep trying on both counts. Kevin Smith wouldn't be a bad answer either.
   
   
5. Do you have a phobia you'd like to overcome?
   
   Yeah, I wish I didn't get irritable in enclosed spaces. When Jodi and I have to work out a disagreement, she feels most comfortable talking in the bedroom with the door closed, and I feel pretty uncomfortable with the door closed, especially if we've got a problem to talk about. So we can't even talk things out unless one of us starts out uncomfortable.
   
   

Trick or treat!

( Open the trenchcoat! )

Jittervamp

Jittervamp

Halloween Party '05-3

Halloween Party '05-3

I don't know these people, but they're brilliant. I want to steal the idea on the left for next year, but I'm sure it'll be outdated by then.