Happy Halloween!

So, Halloween out here was a big to do! Ok, not really, just in our area. None of the dorms on West Campus had anything for us to do, but oh well...East Campus kept us busy!

Friday! Well, after I finished altering my costume I went back down to my hall and hung out. We watched Memento. That a really freaky movie, not scary like, but strange. It's got a much tweaked story line. I really liked it! We also watched Pi...That one's really bizarre! The whole thing is in black and white, but not the normal one with grays, it was black and white with the contrast turned all the way up. It was really really weird. Anyway, after that we went and watched the Pumpkin Drop. It was really cool. They had over 40 giant pumpkins that they dropped off of the green building (I think it's the tallest building around...anyway, it's 25 stories high, but the first floor is really tall and off the ground, so it's really like 30). It was really cool. All the pumpkins went smash! Some of them were filled with sugar or flower or stuff to make in more interesting; however the cops found out and kinda shut it down early, oh well. I was still really cool! After that we went to the party on 41 West (the freaky, crazy hall that I was temped on). The party was ok, nothing special, so we didn't spend much time there. Amrita and I and a few other people went for a walk toward Central Square (away from Boston). We basically walked around and came home. When we got back to the dorm we watched A Fish Called Wanda. It was the first time that I've seen it all the way through and I really liked it. We had a really fun time, but after that we were really pooped, so we all headed off for bed.

Saturday. I had to go practice marching with a riffle during the morning so that I can be ready for the POW/MIA Vigil on Wednesday. Then we had the International Feed Saturday evening. Rob and I made Fried Okra again and also some mashed yams (some with marshmallows! They were good!). Rob did most of it because I kinda slept too late, but I did really help. After ROTC I had gone back to bed, expecting to wake up about 2 in order to help, but I didn’t wake until 4. Oh well. It was really good food. We have a bunch of Indian people on our hall, so there were a lot of those dishes and they were all excellent! After the feed, a few of us got all dressed up in our Halloween costumes and went around different Athena Clusters (computer rooms) and did this little skit (yeah, not really my thing, but oh well). When we had sufficiently worn that out we went to Verde's (little market in the Student Center) and ate ice cream! It was fun. After than we went back to the dorm and tried to figure out what to do next. One guy on our hall wanted to watch Pulp Fiction. Then we remember that we wanted to go to Krispy Kream, we got a bunch of the people on the hall to go and get dough nuts. We came back and watched Pulp Fiction. After that I was getting ready to go to bed and figured I better find my room mate (she wasn't here, and it was 3 in the morning), so I messaged Isaac downstairs. They were down there, so I went down to hang out. One of Isaac’s high school's friends was there and we all sat and talked for quite a while. Ok, till, 6:30ish. I got to see the sun rise! Isaac and his friend fell asleep really really fast all of a sudden and Amrita and I decided we should go to bed too!

Sunday. I got to sleep in! Well, I better after a Saturday like that! So, I got up about 1 and did a lot of work. I'd punted all weekend and needed to get something done! Then about 6ish we decided that it was about time to get ready to go Trick-or-Treating. You are never too old to Trick-or-Treat! We got a few people to go with us, but no one knew where would be a good place to go, so it was really slow getting started. Then Ruth lost her keys, but oh well. We were able to figure it out later. We called Vimal because we were outside his dorm and we Trick-or-Treated him. It was awesome! Then we went over to Simmons because we had heard that they were doing something. Well, come to find out it was for little people, but we still went through their Haunted House. Only, they didn’t know that we were there, so they turned the lights on half way through, oh well, we got lots of candy! There were a few people there that gave us some dirty looks when we wondered up stairs on our way out, but oh well. They were weird! After that we were kinda hungry, so we went out for Pizza and Ice Cream. It was quite yummy. When we got back to the dorm Amrita and a few people had just started watching The Shinning, so I sat down and watched it too! Then it was off to bed so that I could sleep before the week really began!

I did watch a lot of movies this weekend, it was great! So relaxing! It was a lot of fun! Except, now I have a lot of work to do tonight, ok, not a lot, but some, I should really get to it! Back into the grind! I'll let you know how wed goes and post some pictures—Amrita is taking some! Yippie!