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Well, guess what. We got broadband here at the house so I don't have to bug my room mate for his AOL password to get online. I have a pretty fast connection at work so I didn't really miss not having it at home. The down side of that is I didn't have a connection available to me when I'm most likely to write in this here log. Now that I do have net access here, at the end of the day, you might just be hearing more from me.

I just got back from a costume party 15 minutes ago or so. It was fun. I originally wasn't going to go because it's the same night I have small group/house church. This week church started early and it was a short one so I was able to go to both. I feel a little bad for telling so many people so adamantly that I wasn't going. But then I was feeling a little bad because so many of my friends wanted me to show up and some of them put a lot of effort into the planning and cooking and decorating etc. I'm a bit asocial so big gatrherings don't thrill be too much but I thought I'd better show up at least for their sake.

Anyway, I left house church around 8, I came home and through together a costume. I had it 80% planned out ahead of time. I had a couple of ideas but I thought one might be in poor taste. Oh yes, I thought it'd be funny, but I could see how some people could be offended by me going as a black ghost (black sheet and an afro). I decided to go with an "evil clown" costume. I'm not really a fan of evil or of clowns or a mix of the two. I do have, however, a big yellow rubber suit (the kind used by people working with toxic stuff) and the afro wig an ex room mate left here. I didn't have make up so I made a mask using an old pair of ruined khakis (if you cut a leg off up at the thigh it'll fit over your head), some markers, some fabric paint and some oil pastels. The whole mask making took nearly an hour. I ended up making two because the first one didn't turn out right. The second one worked. It came out effectively freaky/scary. It seemed to intimidate people, but it got a lot of compliments. I think the entrance helped too. The party was outside and I walked up the long driveway and right past the main gaggle of people, not even looking at them. I walked right up behind some of my friends who were getting their picture taken. No one knew it was me until someone lifted the mask and saw my mouth and chin. Of course, since they didn't think I was coming they were a bit surprised to see me.

Anyway, it was fun. Shortly after I showed the party moved inside and I took off the costume. I put it on briefly for another round of pictures, but I'm really not a psycho-evil-killer-clown.

P.S. No alcoholic beverages served... It's not that kind of party.
P.P.S. I'm not super-keen on celebrating Halloween in general. I made an exception because of the people involved.

adios