Uncreated Conscience

Happy Halloween, everyone! Halloween is my favourite holiday, for many reasons, not the least of which is the fact that it’s the one day I’m sanctioned to play dress up in public. If I had my druthers, everyday would be Halloween, but alas, I am not Queen of the Universe (the last I checked anyway).

The Doctor and Rose...on a pumpkin!

Other reasons to love Halloween include the beginning of the “holiday season” here in the US, a definite turning of the seasons here in the Northeast, pumpkin and apple-flavoured hot drinks, and giving the finger to my Korean Presbyterian upbringing by loudly proclaiming the Devil’s holiday as the one I worship above all others.

Now I glory in all things creepy and gothic, and a while back, I wrote a post wondering why horror seems to have gone out of vogue in children’s fiction, and I love a good scare more than anyone. So I will be brave and air my irrational fears before you.

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This is the best costume for the day.

Halloween was a blast this year, but then again, Halloween is a blast every year. I need no excuses to dress up as whatever character I please, but it’s nice when the rest of the world has license to be five years old again. In New York it’s especially great because you get to ride the subway with adults dressed in costume on their way to various parties. On our way to a med school party in New Jersey, The Inimitable Bex and I spotted Dwight Schrute on the N train into Manhattan.

I loathe store bought costumes but I love the creativity of thrifted ones. Bex was Joan Holloway, having borrowed my retro dress and shoes (as well as a coworker’s DD bra) and our friends Alex and Jay were Big and Little Edie, but my roommate Rachel takes the cake as she was Effie Trinket from THE HUNGER GAMES. She had a pink wig, a spring green trench coat, my mockingjay pin, and a glass bowl filled with names for the Reaping. How awesome are my friends?

As the weather has grown cooler, it is now time for me to be busting out the knitting needles. Last year I made a few scarves, a hat, and a pair of mittens before retiring for the spring. This year I am determined to make these mittens (yes, they’re named for the TWILIGHT books, but I don’t care—they’re pretty!), as well as these arm warmers to wear in freezing cold New York offices. More knitting follows beneath the cut.

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I apologise for having been missing in action. There is a very good reason for that. The reason is called Battlestar Galactica (the re-imagined series), which I will review at a later date when I am emotionally ready to consider it. (Guh.)

In the meantime, I have turned into a picspam whore. Exhibit 1: my Halloween costume as Zatanna.

Trying to show you the awesome of my costume.

Do you know how hard it is to get a full length body shot? It’s very hard. Very, very hard.

Second attempt at showing you the awesome of my costume.

I even tried to take full length shots with my tripod, but I could never get myself centered in the frame right (without looking through the viewfinder). Still, more narcissism follows beneath the cut.

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