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Halloween… e’en

Well, it’s the day before Halloween, making it just about the second most Halloweeny day of the year. It seems to have crept up on me slowly and spookily. It seems like only yesterday when it was two days before Halloween. And I just haven’t had the occasion to get into the Halloween spirit. I’m not sure if Halloween is my favorite holiday, but it’s definitely up there with Thanksgiving (food) and Christmas (presents and food). New Year’s Eve/Day is/are a/some holiday(s) that make(s) me sad.

Anyway, you may be asking what I’m doing for Halloween this year. Well, it might not be much different than last year. I might be handing out candy again, but I think I’ve secured a better gig. Several neighborhoods away, my friend Sean and his neighbors really get into the spooky holiday. Sometimes they even have a block party, but there’s always a Halloween party at Sean’s house, and he’s invited me to come over. Now, by Halloween party, I don’t mean dressing up. From what I recall, the Halloween parties at his house are simply parties that happen to occur on Halloween. Sure, the decor and the food might be Halloween-themed, but I doubt that a costume will be necessary.

Today might have been perfectly banal if it weren’t for a few incidents that I’ll summarize here:

1. I spilled green bean water on my pants
2. My graphing calculator fell out of my backpack, and someone took it
3. Since I had planned on doing my science experiment with Mrs. Zambrano in third block, I got my two English quizzes early and did them in a hurry, but when I went to Mrs. Zambrano, she said she was busy, so I went right back to class
4. We did some weird thing in Anatomy and Physiology where everybody had to ask certain people (myself included) for the answers to some test-type thing, and I had no idea what I was doing

Fortunately, everything turned out fine in the end. The giant spot on my pants dried, a guy in my class returned my calculator, I got 100s on both of the quizzes, and my Anatomy and Physiology teacher loves me. I managed to take today’s tribulations lightly.

This weekend was pretty interesting. I spent the beginning and the end of the weekend with friends. Since there was an early release on Thursday, TJ, Luke, Yamilee, I, and my sister went to Olive Garden for lunch. You should have seen the looks that all the old people there were giving us. A bunch of rowdy hooligan teenagers skipping school! You should have seen the looks on their faces because then you could have told me what they were like. I didn’t see them. We weren’t very rowdy, anyway, and we had fun talking about various things. I’d do it again the next time we get out early.

Over the weekend, Michelle invited me to a concert that she and her boyfriend had won a bunch of tickets to (even though the concert was free?). I didn’t even know who was playing — I asked her, and she told me, and I still didn’t know — but I said I would go anyway. And go I did last night. It was one of those seasonal things that the radio stations throw, so the atmosphere was pretty relaxed. The first act we heard was a quirky fellow named Landon Pigg. His music was so good that it made me depressed about how bad I am with the guitar and songwriting. Oh, and Ace Young was there. Apparently he’s from American Idol? Well, I hadn’t heard of him, but a bunch of fangirls there sure had. We stood right by the stage (there were no seats as it was in a grassy amphitheater), and it was extremely loud, but that was okay. It was still cool being so close to someone with his own Wikipedia article. I had a good time, and it was a good way to end the weekend.

Where else but Wikipedia would you find a list of films with similar themes and release dates?

Hey, look. It’s a lyrics site that’s not encumbered with tons of ads, and it’s a wiki. It’s LyricWiki.

One year ago: “I guess I can’t let myself get beaten down like last time.”
Two years ago: “Coming to the U.S. in 2006, it’s… digital television!”