Found a couple of good looking pumpkins last night. Today, I have to clean and carve them, then give the apartment a once over so it looks presentable. It's going to be squishy here tonight, so consider this your only warning.

I pinched this from okoshun. I did it a couple of times, but the first was the best. Guess which one made me cackle outloud with delight...

valkryor's Halloween party:

athena_51 dressed as a disturbing self-made character called "Snotty Chucklesprinkles".
boozymatic dressed as someone called "Sharon Rogers", but you've never heard of them before.
carolep forgot to put on clothes!
clawfoot dressed as your brother.
eniastoa dressed as a outfielder for the Devil Rays.
ficbot dressed as a can of beer.
fuzzpsych dressed as the Awkward Power Ranger.
halfwitted dressed as Mandy Moore.
hollygoth dressed as James Polk.
joncanuck dressed as a Level 12 sorcerer.
lovecraftienne dressed as a new member of the Wu-Tang Clan, Mighty Specialist.
lynbug dressed as the Marquis of Green Springs.
malachi_666 dressed as Calvin Coolidge.
meowster dressed as Britney Spears.
okoshun dressed as a KusminDot Com employee.
robertom dressed as Bob Dole.
shishain dressed as a diplomat from Guyana.
sorceressmedea didn't dress up, spoilsport.
the_daily_rant dressed as something still, but what, specifically, you can't tell.
zero_design dressed as a limestone advice.

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Okay. I've been poked with a Magic Reach by lovecraftienne, so now onto the Book Meme...

1) Total number of books in your house:

Do I have to count? Lots. Hundreds. Reference ones, and biographical ones, and children's ones, and graphic ones, and gaming ones, and ancient ones, and so much more.

2) The last book you bought was:

Aside from giving my money to the nice people at Now and Then for flat paper objects, No One Noticed the Cat by Anne McCaffrey for my at-the-time unborn babe (this was last summer. I have so many yet to be read, and I still want to buy more. And I miss working at LSC...free books...*shudder in delight*)

3) What was the last book you read before reading this?

Again, aside from a comic book, Terry Pratchett's A Hat Full of Sky.

4) Write down 5 books you often read or that mean a lot to you.

Last Hero, Terry Pratchett
Archangel, Sharon Shinn
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, Chris Moore
Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
American Gods, Neil Gaiman

5) Who are you going to pass the Magic Reach stick to (three people) and why?

sorceressmedea, a fellow classicist and I'm curious to know what she's translating, er, reading...:)
angeliquewisom on account that I don't know much about her and would like to know more.
hollygoth 'cause she works in a library, and must be tempted to read surrounded by all those books.

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Merrily stolen from shishain and sorceressmedea...

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1. Stop talking about politics for a moment or two.

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This is a Sedna. A prominent character in Inuit myth, this print was part of the 2000 Cape Dorset show and was done by Ohotaq Mikkigak. While working at the much missed Enook Gallery, I fell in love with the "Emerging Sedna" and bought one for myself. It still hangs proudly on my livingroom wall, within close proximity, oddly enough, to my oosik. ;)

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