So Halloween was interesting this year... There was class, which was moved into a lecture hall instead of the normal classroom it is held in. It was moved on account of potential noise due to a "Haunted Valley" Thing the student council was throwing on campus last night. It looked interesting from what I saw of it. Kind of an alternative for families as a safe alternative to trick-r-treating. More on the safe part in a moment....

There where a number of booths setup for the kids in full regalia to go around trick-r-treating. A haunted house, and a BBQ from what I saw during the ten minute break from class. Class was, well about as great as a class from 6-9:23 on a Friday night. No one in my study group save for me showed up... which was annoying. Even more annoying was the fact that two of the girls sent me text messages asking for copies of the notes last night.

Yay I get to transcribe and email! Fun... on the other hand I should Ace this damn test Take that you bitter Edu-nazi!!

Anyhow, by the time class let out the Haunted Valley thing was done and gone, relegated to a series of black garbage bags and a few scattered stacks of collapsible tables that a pair of cats where busily rearranging.

From class it was off to the Movies and an 11:30 showing of Zack and Miri make a porno. I know Kevin Smith has a die hard following... I know a few members here that are counted gladly in that number. In fact he is the only guy my sister said she will screw on personality alone...

That said the movie was good... Funny... however not something I'd go and see again. I dunno, I just don't get sick humor and one scene certainly fell into that category. Yeah just, well check it out.

What's more interesting was the 7 cop cars that zoomed down the street in front of the reserve base as we were leaving to the show. Apparently they, plus about 13 others, were all heading to my neighborhood. More interestingly a block away from my house. There was a scuffle, two people got shot... one didn't live.

I wonder if there will ever come a time when people don't take stupid shit and escalate it to a point where life is lost. It just seems so ... stupid. Sure, we could take away guns and stem the violence that way, but not having a gun isn't going to stop people being blinded by some stupid boiling rage. Its just dumb

The police had the neighborhood sealed when I got home at 2am. Had to park around the corner. A cop escorted My sister and I to our front door.

lets hope Thanksgiving is better... We all have at least one thing to look forward to. Life is grand sometimes, and sometimes its bland. We just need to remember in those bad times that we have something the 19 year old down the street no longer has.

Steve