Xan's Halloween Report (respectfully submitted by AMD):
8:ooam: "Halloween, Mama! We will get chocolate, and candy, and lollipops!"The latter is the treat of choice this season, oddly inspired weeks ago by two random students on the AU shuttlebus (who left the wrappers on the seats).
3:30pm - protest putting on costume. Agree only when parents plead that it is just for two friends in the department.
3:30pm - trick or treating in the department, starting with the graduate students in the lounge who teach him the classic "trick or treat, smell my feet......"
3:45pm move on to professors in their offices. Handling the "trick or treat" and "thank you" routine with ease. Starts to go further "trick or treat... um... give me good to eat!"
(this photo looks remarkably similar to last year!)
5:00pm Left campus and joined four colleagues and friends in a trick-or-treat friendly part of our town. Angela was very lame and took no photos; Jeff was working at a film screening on campus, so there is no visual evidence of the event.
But if you will, imagine this little lion happily traipsing after a slightly bigger fairy princess on a neighborhood sidewalk in the Halloween dusk. It was magical.
2 comments:
It was great seeing you all! Hope that the blog continues. Patty K
The computer in Cataumet wasn't cooperating, so the substitute couldn't post over the past week. Jeff is still under about half-a-gizillion papers (only half, though!) but I can see his return to the blog somewhere off there in the distance - it's coming. At the very least, the semester ends in a few weeks, so the grading will have to be done.
Good to see you, too, Pat! More later....
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