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Halloween and its Aftermath

October 30, 2006 8:52 PM

ell, that was an interesting and awesome weekend.

In a last-ditch effort to get a good costume, Kristin and Emily and I headed to the West Side to some store out there and found that they had a huge wall full of costumes. Emily picked hers out, and I picked mine. I ended up going with a knight costume, completely with cape and chainmail head gear. Emily picked a camo army girl costume. Strangely, it came with sequins, almost definitely ensuring that its wearer would not be stealthy at all.

After retreating to our respective homes to put on our costumes, etc., we reunited, with the addition of Cole, at the first party. It was a hell of a good time once the decorations were up, the beer started flowing, and the beer pong started. I sucked ass at the beer pong. Bad. Although I was teamed with Noel and then David, we could not defeat Lisa and Melissa. It was bullshit.

Eventually, the first party started to slow down, so we walked to another party. On our way there, we ran into Ben and Mel, who were on leaving the party and informed us that the party "stank like vomit." We continued unabated but, sure enough, when we arrived we discovered that the fucking place reeked of throw-up. Still, we stuck around for a while. After a while, we failed to convince some lame, lame, lame, lame, lame, lame 2Ls to go to Perkin's with us, so we walked to Kristin's place, where I called a cab and went home. I woke up the next morning and, to my surprise, was not dead.

We had work to do on Saturday. We took care of that and then, all of a sudden, it was time for Party part II. This time, it was Chris (K-Fed), Cole (Mal), Kristin (goth fairy), Cristina (gypsy), Laurence (Japanese tourist), Ryan (the Scarecrow), and myself (by now being called King Arthur because I was wearing the knight costume but was being a huge jerk, giving everyone orders and stuff).

We played Asshole for a while, and I had a great time, even better than Friday. Then, we decided that it was time to head down to State Street to see just how crazy things had gotten. It turns out, things had not gotten crazy at all. We got kicked out of Qdoba for no reason at all, and decided to eat at Buffalo Wild Wings instead. Then, we left, I went home, and I slept for a good 14 hours.

Sunday, Kristin and Cole and I watched "The Prestige," which was decent but, honestly, slightly disappointing.

And that's where I've been.

I have to admit that, while I'm happy that no property was destroyed and no one was injured on State Street, I'm disappointed that there were only 35,000 people. It's just awesome to know you live in a city that has parties with 100,000 people, you know? But, it's not worth it to have all the downtown business get vandalized and stuff. I know this - but it's still sad to lose the Mardi Gras of the Midwest.

I'll post Halloween pictures relatively soon.

For the time being, though, I'm going to continue trying really hard to keep my head above water. Finals are creeping up, I still don't have a job, and my apartment's a mess. I've made a pact: no more going out, except for a few specific exceptions.

And I'm sticking to it this time, goddamnit!

3 Comments

Dee said:

well, i think Emily would have fared excellently on a covert mission in circus tent. wouldn't that be awesome?

i laughed so hard at the king arthur thing. if only there had been time to find you two empty halves of a coconut.

October 31, 2006 8:53 AM

kristin said:

I assume that by "we got kicked out of Qdoba for no reason," you mean "I got kicked out of Qdoba for climbing on to a garbage can in the middle of a restaurant and yelling soccer chants that have previously been used to start riots." I also assume that by "we decided to eat at Buffalo Wild Wings instead," you mean "we realized it was the closest place to eat after the entire group was asked to leave Qdoba because several members of our party almost got into an altercation with the manager that kicked me out." Don't leave the civil disobedience out - that's what makes it Halloween in Madison.

October 31, 2006 11:43 AM

Anonymous said:

Aside from a lack of stealth, I'd venture a guess that wearing sequins is a violation of the don't ask, don't tell policy.

October 31, 2006 10:02 PM