Come one, come all

It forgets to mention that I came as Scooby Doo's Velma:

eve_prime's Halloween party:

abbzug dressed as the spirit of their dead grandmother April.
coleoptera gets drunk, strips naked, and somehow emerges dressed as Michelle Trachtenberg.
doomduck dressed as the Archbishop of Dodson.
drenilop dressed as a bear.
estuelke dressed as a quarterback for the Buccaneers.
fractal9091 dressed as a substitute trade show booth bunny.
keyboard_monkey dressed as someone called "Clyde McClain", but you've never heard of them before.
kudzita dressed as the Governor of Rhode Island.
liadanlj dressed as the Furious Power Ranger.
llhinkle dressed as John Quincy Adams.
lunavessel dressed as a elk.
pamperedreality dressed as a Vazquez & Hood Ambulance ChasersCorp. employee.
paul19223b dressed as Andrew Jackson.
rowanf gets drunk, strips naked, and somehow emerges dressed as a character from Harry Potter and the Candle of Catastrophe.

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Pumpkining

We let D. go to his friend's Halloween party even with a fever of 101-102F -- I hope the other kids' parents won't come to hate us in the next few days. I just couldn't bear to disappoint him by keeping him home, especially as he will probably miss the school party tomorrow, and rationalized it by telling myself that all the kids will be exposed to whatever's going around anyway. I still feel badly about it, though, and he did way more running around than he should have, so now I'm all a-fret.

While they were gone I did the GRE verbal practices and discovered three bad habits. For the vocabulary ones, I just skimmed the answers 'til I found a good fit, rather than reading them all properly (didn't cost me anything, but it could). Also, I used only half the allotted time, at most, which wasn't really smart. Then I discovered that I was doing all my thinking aloud, which I do when I'm nervous or want to be conscientious, and that's probably not desirable either, but it felt awkward to be quiet. Hmm.

Tonight we carved pumpkins. Pumpkin guts make my skin itch. D. had to try multiple times to draw a carvable face onto his, and we learned that bon ami will "erase" indelible ink from a pumpkin surface. Our results: