Here are a few pictures of the Halloween festivities we engaged in. For our party Sarah baked chocolate chip cookies, Doorhinge brought four bags of pizza rolls, and I made some lime punch I christened Ecto Buzz. (Recipe: 8 liters of Sprite, 4 packets of Koolaid, 1 pound sugar, 1 pound sherbet, 1 liter Smirnoff.) It was the perfect mix in my opinion. I probably drank at least ten cups of the stuff and never went beyond a healthy buzz. Practically no alcohol taste, either!
Here we have Mary, Sarah and Jill proudly displaying the pumpkins they carved one afternoon. Mary's was a skeleton from the torso up. Sarah's was a goofy man's face that had a big round nose. (There was a black spot on the pumpkin that Sarah carved around so there would be a mole on the nose.) Jill's had a cat on it.
Unfortuately, Sarah's jack-o-lantern rotted before Halloween came, so we didn't get to put a candle in it or anything.
Stephanie came to our party, which made me really glad. Since the summer ended Sarah hasn't really been able to see many of her friends that she met down in Mississippi, so having Stephanie at our party was nice. And even though she didn't know anybody but me and Sarah, she seemed to have a good time! = )
Stephanie dressed up as a slumber party girl in her Mickey Mouse pajamas, along with a matching watch and Mickey Mouse socks too. (Can you tell she likes Mickey Mouse a lot???)
Cute pigtails, huh?
Guess who? It's Sarah under that bright blue wig! Can you believe it? Sarah actually wore her contacts for the first time in months so that she could wear those nifty blue sunglasses she borrowed from Theresa. (She even painted her fingernails AND her toenails with polish that matched her hair color.)
Sarah was a little bummed out at first because she couldn't find a costume she wanted. She eventually found the wig but then didn't know what to do with it. I told her she should be the Blue Fairy Godmother and get a blue prom dress and a wand. But we couldn't find one.
I think she ended up looking very cute and that she shouldn't be disappointed in the least. It turned out great, honey bunny!
Theresa came down from Florissant just for our party! She was all decked out as a fifties sock hop girl, complete with poodle skirt. At one point she complained that the skirt was too long ('cause she's short) but I thought it looked fine.
For a while Resa had some pale makeup and blood on her face as if she were a dead fifties sock hop girl. But she eventually washed it off. (I think this picture is actually from before the party started but that's OK.)
Doorhinge showed up in the guise of Andy Kaufman during his wrestling days, spouting phrases such as, "Get the women back in the kitchen where they belong!" and "I'm from Hollywood. I've got brains. I'm not from Maymphus, Taynuhsee." He even wore the Inter-Gender World Wrestling Championship belt.
Progger was originally going to come as referee Bob Zmuda, but instead wore a much more interesting costume, pictured below.
BJ offered a couple of times to "gay wrestle" Doorhinge but 'Hinge-as-Kaufman refused, saying he only wrestled women and Jerry Lawler.
Jared came to our party shirtless at first (which, for those of you who know him, should come as no surprise). The rule of the house was no one could get into the party without a costume of some kind, but Theresa had Jared's doctor's outfit. (They're really her scrubs.)
So he came shirtless. I probably shouldn't have let him in, but he eventually did get into costume at least for a while.
The way I figure it though, we were lucky he didn't go with his regular combination of shirtlessness accompanied by body paint. Women would have swooned and it wouldn't have been from the punch. He also was going to just come in his gui for tae kwon do (read: karate outfit) but he decided against it. Again, this decision was a lucky break for us, since it surely would have led to in-house sparring and eventual breakage of my stuff.
Any clue who this one is supposed to be? Probably not, and you wouldn't be alone. During haunted halls, I had to speak for quite a while before some people finally realized it was me under there. They still didn't know who I was supposed to be. Some guessed Michael Myers. My landlord Ken guessed Anarky. Good guesses, but all wrong.
The more astute comic fans out there will notice a passing resemblance to V, the main character of Alan Moore's miniseries, V for Vendetta. I couldn't quite get the costume exactly right, because that would have required a Guy Fawkes mask and since I don't live in England, that was an impossibility. But I came pretty close and still was scary-looking to most of the partygoers. My eyes being the only visible part of me, I was able to loom over people and freak them out by staring at them, Doorhinge especially. All in all, a good costume and well worth the $80 total I spent on it.
Marc and Danielle are pictured here in the only picture I have of the two of them. (Well, not the only one, but the only one good enough to go up on the page. = ) ) Marc, who moved onto my floor last year, is a big Austin Powers fan and he and his girlfriend Danielle came dressed in their groovy sixties gear.
Danielle just started coming to school here this semester and there was a slight chance that I might end up as her EN 100 teacher. (Yikes!) Luckily she's in a different section. The two of them worked together at Walgreens (for a while), which for the longest time advertised POKEMAN cards being on sale. Marc fixed the sign, but only because they raised the price to coincide with the movie release.
It's Bedtime for Bonzo, the later years! Really though, that's BJ on the left as some sort of gorilla man. Nora came with him as a sorority girl, complete with banana clips in her hair and a feather boa. (I didn't know that sorority girls carried boas all the time, but whatever.) I didn't get a picture of her though. Sorry, Nora!
Underneath that odd-looking Ronald Reagan mask is Progger. He wore this pin-stripe suit and came as the former president.
The only one of my TA friends to actually come to my party, Heather and her boyfriend Nathan came dressed in medieval garb. Very nice costumes, I thought. (At least they were easily identifiable unlike most of the rest of us, who had to be asked who we were "supposed to be.") I felt sort of bad because they didn't know many people at the party (Heather has met Sarah maybe twice and only sort of knows Jon and 'Hinge from our modern novel class). But they seemed to enjoy watching So I Married an Axe Murderer while I was off elsewhere, playing Buzz and being a bad host. I really appreciated it that they came, though, and hopefully they had fun.
On the right is the other Stephanie, who used to live on the eleventh floor but now has an apartment off campus with her mom. She was, with Nora and Diana (Nora's sister), yet another sorority girl.
On the left is Jon, who came to the party as Sam, the main character of our favorite movie Shakma. His shirt was supposed to have blood on it, but when he tried to apply the fake stuff, it soaked the shirt clean through. He had to put on one of my shirts instead. He also brought a REAL butcher knife to the party, which I conifscated from him before he got too drunk and started waving it around.
Finally we have Tracy, who was also dressed as a doctor. Her equipment didn't work as well as Jared's, since his stethoscope was real. But she looked cuter in the outfit than Jared did, so she's got one up on him.
(It was her idea originally for her and Jared to coordinate their costumes. She was also supposed to wear her warm-up outfit from tae kwon do, but thankfully they switched.)
