soooo i broke a tooth.  i have a dentist's appt at 2 tomorrow, with a brand new dentist, since mine went all vision-impaired and left the practice.  i was slightly disturbed that when I asked whether the doctor was accepting any new patients, the receptionist first asked me what kind of insurance I had before telling me "yes."  i'm starting to collect all of my doctors in one place - my gp is in the hospital, my dentist now, my cardiologist people. there's an office full of shrinks there i'm still getting up the gumption to call.  if a natural disaster strikes the UMH, i'll have to find all new doctors, but uh, that's unlikely, and I think replacing my doctors will be the least of my worries.

anyway, i'm glad i don't have to get through the party with a broken tooth, or having just come from the dentist.  perfect timing?  would have been to have this happen months ago, or not at all.  i'll settle for convenient timing.

the party planning's going well.  i hope to have pictures after the fact.

Our halloween party went off pretty well.  It was nicely populated, although a large number of people who said they'd show up simply did not.  They'll be receiving strange things in the mail soon.  -_-  Not strange good things, either.

The boys from Albatross showed up, though, and they're pretty rock and roll.  In total, we had I think three bands represented, heh.  We had a lot of cool costumes, as well.  A batgirl, a clark kent (complete with superman tee shirt underneath), an Indiana Jones, a cigarette girl, and an undead hobo.  colin was nny, v was a zombie doctor, and I was a leper with oozing sores and a missing finger.  Ben was a mad scientist with a white fro and bloody lab coat, and he carried around chunks of dry ice to drop in people's drinks if they tried to talk to him.

There were a few highlights.  I wanted to pick one, but there were a few.  One was obviously doing shots off the toilet while it bubbled over with dry ice.  Related to that, the brick of ice was big enough that it couldn't get flushed for a while, so whenever a dude peed on it, it bubbled and smoked up.  Hahahahaha!  Another was crashing the party down the street conga line style, going in the front door, walking through the house like we were supposed to be there (shitty decorations and way too predictable dance music), and going out the back door.  Brooks and I went back for a man we'd unintentionally left behind, and on our way out, the host of that party begged us to stay while refusing an invitation to come crash our party for a bit.  o_O  I thought that was kinda jerky, but it wasn't until I found out that he called three of our party-goers "gay" that i decided he was a dead penis pickle.  Yet another highlight was Brooks playing with one of our prosthetic legs, tying it one as his "third leg."  It had to be seen to be believed.  I'm sure there's more, but I just can't remember it all. 

The food was good too, even though we didn't get to put out as much as we'd planned for.  The mulled cider was popular, the punch was drunk dry.  We've got a lot of beer left.  The Spare Left Fingers went a lot faster than the Spare Right Fingers, haha.  The periodic table of cupcakes was only about half gone by the end of the night.  More people than we predicted actually tried the Baby Stew.  Seriously.  I mean we made it to be edible, but still.  Oh, and the Monkey Guts were pretty popular as well.

Pictures can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=19046&id=726251962  I wish we'd gotten pictures of the decorations.  :-( They were kick-ass.  we had two tvs, one playing the silent film the Cabinet of Dr Caligari, and the other playing a desaturated video on organic chemistry with the tracking turned off.  There were no lights on, and I'm really surprised and kind of pleased at how much light wall-mounted candleholders give off.  We WILL get pictures of the pumpkins before they get tossed, b/c they're awesome.  We stuck some dry ice into one of them, which was awesome, but we won't have a picture of that.

ps i think i'm getting sick. nano starts thurs oh nose.  i have to call dell for this stupid part.

It's that time again.  Time for candy, scaring the pants off your neighbors, and performing various amazing feats of embarrassment in the form of dress up clothes and drinking.  What can go wrong?  This year's theme is weird science, alchemy, and unsanctioned human experimentation.  Please watch your step.

Party begins at 8 @ 2823 N. Howard Street.  Call if you need assistance.  All are welcome.  Please bring your friends and a suitable DNA donation for the knowledge base.  If all goes well, we'll have ridiculously ugly superhumans by the end of the night.