Can anyone tell me what the point of leaf blowers is? I saw a man using one outside the cafeteria this morning, and I couldn't help wondering why he was getting paid to scatter leaves across the sidewalk.
I think I'm going to be a vampire for Halloween this year, partly because I can pull off the look, and partly because the costume is cheap and easy. Since I'm going to be working the dreaded haunted house, my plan is to do my makeup there and keep it on the rest of the night. I'm being frugal out of necessity, not principle. Someone told me that Hot Topic sells individual fangs with adhesive for a more realistic look for the low low price of $16. That's outrageous. Who has money like that to spend on looking like a monster? I retract that question, because I know there are people who go all out when it comes to Halloween, like my friend who's dressing up like Richard Simmons, complete with homemade bedazzled booty shorts. People are so creative.
Last Wednesday, I saw the movie "Paranormal Activity" with my friend Michael and his friend Emily. And let me just say, as a general rule of thumb, I don't get scared very often by movies. Especially mainstream ones. I go to the movies in hopes of finding a genuinely good horror film, but more often than not they turn out to be blatant and predictable, or bloody and full of sex, neither of which I find terrifying. But this one was different. Quite possibly, it was the scariest movie I've ever seen. Definitely one of the scariest. I read a bad review of it in the New York Times that criticized its thin plot line and lack of complexity, but that was what I found to be most effective--the simplicity of it all. It was believable to the extent that a horror movie can be believable without bringing in any unnecessary special effects or cliche scare tactics.
Speaking of phantoms... BREAKING NEWS: The identity of the Facebook Phantom has at last been revealed. Yesterday a source who shall remain nameless told me the name of the culprit behind all this anonymous sex talk, and though I had the strong urge to do so at first, I'm not going to give away the phantom's name on my blog, as that would be unethical. All I have to say it that it's all pretty funny, in a sad way. I think he's probably garnered his fair share of unwanted attention as it is. That's punishment enough, I'd say.
I had a dream about my best friend last night. I haven't seen her since the beginning of August, which sounds like a short period of time, but in best friend years, it's like an eternity. She's at a ministry training program in Minnesota that involves an intense first year boot camp-style experience, so she's not allowed to make contact with anyone who isn't immediate family until she comes home for Christmas. I think everyone has one other person in life who they just naturally connect with. Mine just happens to be isolated in Minnesota right now.
Quirky random fact of the day: Did you know that a diaphragm is also a form of contraception?
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