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Nov. 1st, 2014 12:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hathycolIt's Halloween! Well, it was yesterday but tonight I am off to a party that has caused no end of difficulties for me. We've been invited to a Halloween party at a colleague's house that my manager is also going to, and the colleague in question, when talking about it, said "You can't go as Thor! Maybe zombie Thor. Is that a thing?"
(I decided not to mention the zombie universe things I've read about.)
Anyway, it meant I was trying to rein my my geeky tendencies and Richie's tendencies to go WAY TOO FAR with any kind of costuming in between ALSO trying to look awesome. Any kind of couple's themed costumes is right out, although in our brainstorming we have decided to go as Bill and Ted next year because why not.
In the end, I have gone for 1960s Catwoman (in a little black 1960s dress and boots rather than a catsuit) and Richie is going for Phantom of the Opera. If anyone asks we are going to maintain separate cover stories, wherein I told him I was going as a cat and he thought we were going as Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals; if anyone asks me then the story is that he told me he was going as the Phantom and I thought we were going as comic book characters with poorly received solo movies.
Okay, so we're still being a little niche and geeky but eh. Also I have an amazing mask but I have mentioned before that I am hilariously blind without my glasses. My left eye is now the type of squinty where the lenses are specially thinned, and gosh am I grateful that technology exists and that at least I'm still at the point where it can be thinned. However, I am going to spend a chunk of tonight WITHOUT my glasses on. I've warned R that she needs to introduce me to people with really big and definable hair and preferably wearing bright colours.
Anyway. The most important thing is that tonight I'm not going to drink red wine as I have a really weird experience on it at that party in Nottingham last week. I went from 'fine' to 'hammered' in about one glass (okay, after several other glasses but not as much as I have been know to drink and stay upright), threw up spectacularly (and again, not merely a tactical chunder AND YES I AM CLASSY) and then went to bed. At 10pm. Woke up the next day as fresh as a daisy, if you exclude being woken up at midnight and throwing up, and waking up at 3am and having a little lie down on the bathroom floor. I do exclude these things. Anyway, the point of the story is that tonight is a cider night, particularly since I have to battle with coming home from SOUTH OF THE RIVER. This is, in London terms, roughly the equivalent of travelling to Mordor.
Before all this fun, I need to write my second assignment. I have at least finished the first, and just need to spend an entertaining hour or so tomorrow or on Monday wrestling it into a report folder and checking my appendices are labelled properly. The second is theoretically more interesting, if you exclude the fact I sort of haven't done any reading for it. Ah well.
(I do not recommend working full time with night school. Good things about working full time: having money, having evenings to self without worrying about homework. Good things about being a student: extra sleep, having daytime to self, can study in a library. All of these things: NEGATED BY COMBINING THE TWO.)
(I decided not to mention the zombie universe things I've read about.)
Anyway, it meant I was trying to rein my my geeky tendencies and Richie's tendencies to go WAY TOO FAR with any kind of costuming in between ALSO trying to look awesome. Any kind of couple's themed costumes is right out, although in our brainstorming we have decided to go as Bill and Ted next year because why not.
In the end, I have gone for 1960s Catwoman (in a little black 1960s dress and boots rather than a catsuit) and Richie is going for Phantom of the Opera. If anyone asks we are going to maintain separate cover stories, wherein I told him I was going as a cat and he thought we were going as Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals; if anyone asks me then the story is that he told me he was going as the Phantom and I thought we were going as comic book characters with poorly received solo movies.
Okay, so we're still being a little niche and geeky but eh. Also I have an amazing mask but I have mentioned before that I am hilariously blind without my glasses. My left eye is now the type of squinty where the lenses are specially thinned, and gosh am I grateful that technology exists and that at least I'm still at the point where it can be thinned. However, I am going to spend a chunk of tonight WITHOUT my glasses on. I've warned R that she needs to introduce me to people with really big and definable hair and preferably wearing bright colours.
Anyway. The most important thing is that tonight I'm not going to drink red wine as I have a really weird experience on it at that party in Nottingham last week. I went from 'fine' to 'hammered' in about one glass (okay, after several other glasses but not as much as I have been know to drink and stay upright), threw up spectacularly (and again, not merely a tactical chunder AND YES I AM CLASSY) and then went to bed. At 10pm. Woke up the next day as fresh as a daisy, if you exclude being woken up at midnight and throwing up, and waking up at 3am and having a little lie down on the bathroom floor. I do exclude these things. Anyway, the point of the story is that tonight is a cider night, particularly since I have to battle with coming home from SOUTH OF THE RIVER. This is, in London terms, roughly the equivalent of travelling to Mordor.
Before all this fun, I need to write my second assignment. I have at least finished the first, and just need to spend an entertaining hour or so tomorrow or on Monday wrestling it into a report folder and checking my appendices are labelled properly. The second is theoretically more interesting, if you exclude the fact I sort of haven't done any reading for it. Ah well.
(I do not recommend working full time with night school. Good things about working full time: having money, having evenings to self without worrying about homework. Good things about being a student: extra sleep, having daytime to self, can study in a library. All of these things: NEGATED BY COMBINING THE TWO.)
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Date: 2014-11-01 04:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-11-02 01:23 pm (UTC)I love you.
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Date: 2014-11-02 05:12 pm (UTC)Also, going outside without glasses is WEIRD AND UNSETTLING but the moments where I relaxed a little bit it was strangely beautiful, like sitting in a Matisse painting. The streetlights were beautiful.
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Date: 2014-11-02 11:04 pm (UTC)