Playing Catch-Up

Yes, it's been a month since our last post. So this is me, playing catch-up.

But zombies are slow to catch up. They're slow at everything.

I went to school on Halloween dressed up like a zombie. I didn't take the train like this; I drove instead and wore big sunglasses to hide my really gross make-up. My students were doing a peer-review so they didn't have to listen to me very much; I'm glad because they were so weirded out by my appearance that they wouldn't have been able to pay attention.

One of my students also dressed up for the Pride Club's Halloween costume contest. Here she is, flying through the air in the Commons.

Hermione, casting a spell; Supergirl, flying; Rosie the Riveter, flexing

Halloween night I met up with Bo and his parents for some trick-or-treating. He was a lion--the cutest one ever--but he refused to wear his hat so he's a headless lion. Still cute, though.

I'm so cute! Even without my lion hat!

Why is my auntie trying to eat me? Oh. She's a zombie.

After Bosco-treating, we went to the Power place to hang out with Sadie and her parentals. Sean did their house & lawn up with Halloween fantasticness. It was scartastic. Terrifyic. Really cool.

Sean got a video of those zombie shadows and a projector to put them in the window. A. Maze. Ing.

Sadie was done with her tricks and treating by the time we got there, but we all still got to hang out and eat dinner with her for a while until she went to bed. She showed us a seriously great dance move she learned in dance class: it involves her hopping onto one foot. She rocked it.

The weekend before Halloween, Trevor and I went up to Door County to hang out with Grandma and Grandpa Madel. It wasn't Albie's first trip up there, but doesn't he look adorable?

Albie = Adorable

We got to spend Saturday night with Grandma's book club, the Mysterians. A mystery writer named Bryan Gruley was in town from Chicago for the weekend to do some readings at the local Door County libraries, and one of the Mysterians was hosting a cocktail party for him on Saturday. The party was a lot of fun, and all of Grandma's Mysterian friends, and Bryan and his wife, were gracious and interesting. And Bryan was so gracious that he implied he might be willing to come talk to my creative writing club. I will begin harassing him about this soon. I also started reading his first novel, Starvation Lake, but the copy was Grandma's so I only got through the first dozen pages. I'm going to get my own copy soon.

The view from Grandma and Grandpa's place

Trevor, sneaking around in the stacks at Untitled Used Books

I'll have more news later (sooner than a month..)!