Happy Halloween!: seanan

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween, everybody, and Happy New Year's Eve to those of you who share my particular calendar. May the Great Pumpkin smile upon you tonight, bringing you candles which burn brightly, candy that never goes stale, corn mazes as complicated as the twisting choices of the heart, and costumes that are inventive, interesting, and not solely founded on the idea that "slutty" and "spooky" are one and the same.

(Lo, if you choose to be Sexy Red Riding Hood or Smoking Hot Super Grover on this night, I salute you, because you're wearing a costume, and I don't question how other people want to celebrate this night of nights. But if you're doing it because you don't think you have a choice, or because you can't think of anything else, call upon the Great Pumpkin. He's the Squash. He'll hook you up.)

I spent last night with my mother and sister at the Pirates of Emerson Haunted House Park, where we demonstrated that sometimes money can buy happiness, since it was money that got us through the gates, and money that allowed us to spring for Speed Passes, thus bypassing the huge "night before Halloween, let's party at the haunted houses" lines. I also demonstrated my eerie spatial memory by tearing through the corn maze in less than ten minutes, trailed by a cluster of lost-looking thrill-seekers who had been wandering the maze for over an hour before I came through Walking With Purpose. Had I been one of the Children of the Corn trolling for victims, He Who Walks Behind the Rows would have eaten very, very well.

Today, my back is out, and so I'm wearing my Starfleet bathrobe (in Sciences blue) over slouchy jeans and an athletic shirt, representing the few, the proud, the bored Starfleet Academy graduate students. Give me replicator coffee or give me death.

Enjoy this holiday. The walls of the world are thin today, and whether your personal year turns tomorrow or two months from tomorrow, thank you for spending this year here, with me.

Trick or treat.

groblek

November 1 2011, 02:11:20 UTC 5 years ago

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Happy Halloween to you as well! The Halloween card my brother and his girlfriend sent us is far too good not to share. She's the artist on this:

You see, pumpkin pie is an essential Halloween tradition for my family because my Dad's birthday is Halloween and pumpkin pie is what he always asks for instead of a cake. And now I'm off to bake our pie.

seanan_mcguire

November 1 2011, 14:49:25 UTC 5 years ago

That.

Is.

AWESOME.

avahgdu

November 1 2011, 02:15:28 UTC 5 years ago

I had my first full body MRI today. As the lady strapped me into this moving tray of doom, I asked her..."SO, what happens if the zombies come?"

She came to look me in the face and said "I have good news, and I have bad news. The good news is, we are locked in here tight. No zombies getting in."

"Awesome," I said, as she pushed the button that slide me into the roach motel. "And, um, the bad news?" I shouted and the world became very small."

I heard her answer over the crackling head phones she had placed on me.

"There's no way for you to get out of thing without my help. The place is surrounding by zombies, and I have no idea when help may come. If ever. I am gonna microwave you like a tv dinner. Zombie or not...Mama's gotta eat."

Then she cackled impressively, and mad scientist jokes in between runs of the machine. Hard to believe, but she managed to make a horrifying exp a lot of fun. If any of my chemo nurses smiled, their faces would crack.

May the Lord and The Lady smile upon you.
May the Great Pumpkin light your way,
During this time of darkest night.
And when the Lord is reborn, may he
bring you many good tidings from
the other side...the truest source of light.

Blessed be.

November 1 2011, 14:49:51 UTC 5 years ago

Okay, your MRI tech? Ruled.

Blessed be!

kyrielle

November 1 2011, 03:22:08 UTC 5 years ago

Happy Halloween! I spent it as a black cat. (Why? Because a black cat mask and an all-black outfit meant not having to find a costume that fits at 8 months pregnant. Also because, at 8 months pregnant, I was on door duty handing out candy. No way did I want to chaperone the 2-year-old.)

Scott was a knight. Drew was a dragon. Drew stole Scott's shield and carried it for a while. *amused*

November 1 2011, 14:50:02 UTC 5 years ago

Aww.

That is painfully adorable.

meggins

November 1 2011, 04:16:31 UTC 5 years ago

Belated New Year's greeting to you. Or maybe it's not late. It's after midnight, but...Ack, whatever. May the Wheel spin most gratifyingly for you in the coming year.

November 1 2011, 14:50:11 UTC 5 years ago

And the same to you!

scholarinexile

November 1 2011, 05:31:09 UTC 5 years ago Edited: November 1 2011, 05:31:35 UTC

Blessed Samhain to you!

Sometime I need to tell you about my annual Halloween gaming session. This year's plot involved ancient agrarian cults practicing human sacrifice, a corn maze, offers of dark bargains, and a scarecrow. I thought of you when I was running it and think you would have enjoyed it immensely.