11 November 2002
So
the last three weeks have been super busy! We'll start with
Halloween. Halloween was a great day. I got
to wear my bunny outfit to work! The only
other person in my office that completely dressed up was Tracy.
He was Ash from Evil Dead. So we were basically complete opposites.
That was really fun. Summer wore her bunny outfit to work also!
Her company was having a Halloween breakfast, so I met her
for that at 8:30. It was DELICIOUS! Then, that afternoon we
went uptown and ate lunch at Subway. She came to my office
to pick me up so that all my coworkers would get a chance to
see her. That was great. Nobody else uptown was dressed up
for lunch. Party poopers.
That weekend, I had some guests come down. Kara, Jenny, Anne,
and Tim. Friday night we drank some beers at my house, and
looked at a bunch of funny web sites. Tim's brother Joe was
playing at the Union, so we all went up to see him play. After
him, this act called "Captured By Robots" played.
I've seen it once before. It's REALLY weird. It's this one
guy, and he wears a really creepy mask, and he has an entire
band of robots behind him. They're all different looking. There's
one tall lanky wirey robot, and there's also a HUGE Chucky
Cheese-like monkey robot. Ick. It's scary. And three or four
other robots. He has them all rigged up so he can make them
say stuff whenever he wants, and have their lights blink and
stuff. Overall, I would say it's a cool show, but probably
a little too creepy. My sister was there for that show too,
so that was fun.
The next day we went to Taco John's for lunch. Mmm! Then we
hung around all day and worked on our costumes. Well, I didn't
have to work on mine because mine had been done for ages, but
everybody else did! I had a bunch of people over that night
to hang out before we went to the Uptown Block Party. Athens
has a HUGE block party every year on halloween. Thousands of
people bombard the streets of uptown, dressed in costumes.
It's nuts, and also really fun. At my house we cooked up a
huge pot of chili and made cornbread. We hung around and had
some drinks, played some games, then went uptown. PICTURES
COMING SOON!!! Uptown was really fun. We stood on the Courthouse
steps so that we could see everybody better, and we hassled
people who weren't wearing costumes by yelling "NICE COSTUME!" to
them. Ha ha we're cool. Then we went to the Union to hang out
for the rest of the night. We were a motley crew.
Here we are! Tim = The Bear in the Big Blue house; Jason =
cowboy; Anne = Elliot and ET when they dressed up for trick
or treating; Summer and Kate = bunnies (duh); Kara = Succubus
demon; Jenny = Popple; Schuster = scary evil Jester. There
was a whole other group of people, but they had headed uptown
already. As I said, more pictures coming soon!!
The following week wasn't very eventful. At work, we were
putting the finishing touches on our total site redesign, which
was very exciting! Other than that, I had an eye appointment
AND a flu shot. Oh and I voted. That brings us to this past
weekend! I had more guests! Kelly and Julie came down. On Friday
night, Adam and I went to my friend Carrie's birthday dinner.
It ended up being at the China Fortune, and it was DELICIOUS.
Everybody brought a bottle of wine, so there was a lot of delicious
wine to sample. Afterwards, we all went to Carrie's apartment
for some DQ Ice Cream Cake. MMMM! After that, I met up with
Julie, Kelly, and Jason uptown. We went to Tony's and the Union.
On Saturday, Julie, Kelly and I went shopping. I bought myself
a new game! It's really really fun. It's called Electronic
Catchphrase. It kind of looks like a cd walkman. How you play
is, there's a little computer screen on the game, and a word
comes up. You have to get your teammates to get the word by
giving them any hints you can think of. Meanwhile the little
thing is beep beep beeping. When they guess it, you pass it
to the opposite team. Kind of like Hot Potato. When it goes
off, whatever team is holding it loses that round, and the
other team gets the points. It's super fun. That night, we
cooked dinner. We made whole wheat spirals, with red sauce,
zucchinis, and mushrooms. Also salad and bread. It was delicious!
After dinner, Kelly, Jason, Julie and I played Catchphrase.
After that we went up to the bars. We went to Tony's first,
then the Union. (Notice a pattern?) I decided I wanted to
have after hours, so Dirty, Jason and I went to pick up some
beer.
After that we met up with Julie, Kari, Kelly, Craig, and
Ali. On the way to my house we decided to stop by another after
h ours party that we had been told about. It turns out it
was
a gay party and they weren't very welcoming of us. They made
us leave because we brought a (very clean, very harmless)
bicycle inside. Oh well! So we went to my house instead, and
played
fooseball and Catchphrase all night. Whee! We stayed up too
late - til 6:30 AM. I should be catching up on sleep RIGHT
NOW but oops! I'm working on my web site! The next morning,
Julie, Kelly, Adam and I went to Union Street for some breakfast.
It was delicious. Afterwards, the girls did a little more
shopping.
Whoo. Today is Monday. We had our weblaunch party at work!
It was really fun. I made cupcakes, and Tracy brought cheese,
pears, apples, and champagne. MMM!!!! cupcakes. That's all
for now. Lots of pictures coming soon! Halloween, various pictures
from the summer, lots of kitties... and there was an entire
roll of film taken at the after hours party so if any of them
turn out good I'll post those. good night!
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