Halloween Party

Met up with some friends for an early Halloween party last night and it was a lot of fun. I think the best part may have been the pug let loose in the flat named Goose. But I am seriously stuck on a puppy roll at the moment and can't get french bulldogs off the brain. So, yes. Halloween. It's a fantastic holiday where we can be silly and stupid and it's alright. I mean, more silly and stupid than normal which doesn't take much, I'm afraid.

Notable costumes last night was God's gift to women (he wishes) and good 'ol Amy Winehouse. Oh, and the sexy cop and super annoying oxyclean guy were great, too. Next up is celebrating Day of the Dead in Mexico City.

Totally Agree

Just saw this and I couldn't agree more. I'm not sure if there's been a more black and white (pardon the pun) election in American history. It's so clear to most of us that a McCain/Palin Administration might be even worse than the current weirdos we've got in office. But whatever way you look at it, whoever ends up as the next President of America has a massive fucking mess to tend to. Maybe I'll move to Brazil.

Empty

Sometimes when I get out of the shower I get an acute sense of emptiness. And it hurts. Then I continue to feel a bit melancholy and amiss for the rest of the day. I don't know why these moments come to me every now and then, even when things seem to be quite good.

But when they do, the words that are repeated over and over in my head are, "I want to go home. I just want to go home." This happened frequently when I lived overseas, which is understandable. However, what do I do when it happens and I am at home? And why does it seem to happen just as I'm stepping out of a shower? Perhaps because I'm at my most vulnerable? I feel horrible heartache and my stomach is flipping with anxiety. I feel as if I am grieving. And I don't know why.

Terrifying

October spooks

October's a great month. Mostly because I adore Halloween and us Americans celebrate it all month long as God intended. I went on a creepy ghost tour of Chicago last weekend that brought curious photo results. I was looking into the glass door of a particularly notorious haunted house in Chicago yearning to see something supernatural with my eyes. Knowing that my crappy non-ghost-seeing eyes would fail me, I snapped some pics of the "empty" entry and stairway. What turned up in my pics were a bit spooky since I clearly saw nothing in front of me whilst taking them.

Who knows what's real and what's not? Pretty un-settlingly, however, if you think about the ghost girl looking straight at me on the stairs (feet on the bottom step, head on the fifth, can see outline of her shoulder) and what the fuck is that weird head thing with red eyes in the background? I don't know. I'm stumped. What do you think?

Love that Golden Girl

Another reason to love Betty White:



Such a legend.

City Love

Every now and then I get overwhelmed with love for the city I live in. The only other place this has happened to me is London, which will always be half of my heart. Chicago is occupying the other half. Perhaps it's because it is autumn now and there's a whiff of smoke and a nip of chill in the air. I used to hate autumn as a child because it signified going back to school. Now it is battling into first place for my affection. Chicago's full of secrets and excitement. It's a cool place to live.

Drill, Baby, Drill

As of this moment, the bf and I in the midst of watching the Vice Presidential Debate between Senator Biden and Governor Palin. Is it just me or is Palin way in over her head? Her rebuttals are not on the same topic to most of the questions for Biden, she keeps talking over and over again about Alaska and energy and the best bit she just said, "Drill, baby, drill." This has got to be a joke. She won't answer any questions about the health care issue and she speaks like a PTA hockey mom thinking it's cute. How she is going to get away with this debate and win is beyond me.

Biden is holding his own for Obama very well. He's being quite nice to Palin but I think this is because he can see she's digging her own grave. There are several other issues being debated at the moment that I'm not mentioning but just as crucial. I honestly can't believe some of the things Palin's saying like "some of these countries hating our freedoms, our tolerances, our women's rights." The bf commented that he doesn't really think that's why they dislike us so much but probably because of our greedy, fat-cat, globalization-monster image. Ugh. If Obama doesn't win I'm seriously considering moving overseas again.

She really reminds me of a Stepford wife slash person from "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." It's a little scary. How do some people get like this??