Halloween!

Before I talk about Halloween, I just have to say that I’m sitting in my sunshine-filled, pretty room with Rachel and Charmaine listening to them practicing guitar and singing. It’s like a free live concert—IN MY ROOM. It’s ‘mazing. And such a lovely atmosphere to work on homework (or write a blog post…). Also, this is how Rachel left the guitar for Charmaine to find:

And now for Halloween! Macalester has continued its adorability through to Halloween decorations in all sorts of adorable ways: candy apples in the Café Mac

and sprinkles and cupcakes (sadly I forgot to bring my phone for pictures this day, but they had chocolate ones with tiny candy pumpkins and vanilla ones died orange and yellow with candy corn on top), bags of Halloween candy hung on our door (with absolutely absurd amounts of candy!),

 

 and pumpkins decorating the cafeteria.

The students have also been pretty cute. Several people on my floor decorated their doors for Halloween with pumpkins and banners and messages,

Charmaine got to carve pumpkins in a club (it was her first time and she did a lovely job!),

and we had a Doty 4 Halloween party!

It was a lovely party, but I also included this picture to show you guys some of the folks I’ve been mentioning. The girl two to my right with the cat ears is a fellow Doctor Who fan (Colleen), the girl on my left cleverly disguised as a Mac student is Sorcha, Rachel is the one in the front row with the blue vest, red hat, and black gloves, Jenna is to Rachel’s left, my RA Sofia is to Jenna’s left, the girl standing above Sofia with the creepy smile and the cowboy hat is Lisa, and above Lisa is Brynna. I don’t know about you guys, but I like to have some idea of what people look like, especially when they’re people my friends are talking about a lot. To round out the friend identification, here’s a picture of me with Cassidy (left) and Emily over parent weekend.

To get to the most exciting part, though: my much-mentioned, much-anticipated, TENTH DOCTOR costume!!

First, as a point of reference for those who don’t know the show, here’s a picture of the character I was dressing as (also you could search “david tennant tenth doctor” on google images for more pictures):

And here is me in my costume!

“I'm the Doctor. I'm a Time Lord. I'm from the planet Gallifrey in the Constellation of Kasterborous. I'm 903 years old and I'm the man who is gonna save your…closet?”

 

“Whoa…is that my Time Lord consciousness in there??”

“I like bananas. Bananas are good.”

In other Doctor Who news: I made a new friend (whose name is Nick) because of my costume! He saw me while I was walking to chemistry and instantly recognized my costume and got really happy. We chatted about Doctor Who for a little while, but then I had to go to class. But then, later, he randomly ended up at the Doty 4 Halloween party, which turned into a late night discussion (with Nick, Rachel, Charmaine, Sorcha, and Brynna) about relationships and religion. It was “Fantastic!”

Also, a month ago Cassidy and Emily and I (also sometimes Sam) had a party for Doctor Who day, which was on 9-10-11 (Since the series re-started, there have been three doctors: the ninth, tenth, and eleventh. And for those of you doubting my math, that would be 10-9-11 here in the US.). We ended up watching an absolutely absurd amount of Doctor Who (a double episode for each doctor) and having an amazing amount of fun. Afterwards, we decided that we should chalk up the school with “Bad Wolf” and make snow Daleks when winter comes. I’m very excited. Also, we’ve clearly managed to convert Sam to the show—he’s started making references without any of us bringing up the show! Success!

I just have to add a note to tell you that I’ve recently been informed by Sorcha and Rachel that there is another school located on our campus (running simultaneously): a squirrel school! The squirrels take classes on weather and acorn gathering, and you can see similar populations among the squirrels as among Mac students: the squirrel school is diverse (brown and black squirrels), the needlessly scruffy squirrels are like the boys with shaggy prospector beards, the squirrels that eat trash are the druggies, and the white squirrels are like the Republicans here—we’ve heard that they exist, but no one’s actually seen one. (My friends are so cool.)

my hair one morning

(I’ve decided to get over this dislike of pictures thing, and I know you guys probably want to see what’s going on with me too, so I’ve decided to always include a picture of me at the end. I know there are lots of pictures of me in this post already, so I just picked one that’s already on Facebook. That way some of you have seen it and can ignore it. And also it’s funny (Note: since this picture, I’ve cut my hair, which you may not be able to tell from the costume pictures).)