pumpkins scream in the dead of night!

yesterday was the huge halloween celebration at yale! so much fun on my favorite holiday. we started with a pre-party at chris's house, since it is also one of his favorite holidays. we ate fingers and beans, porcupine balls, boogers on a stick, and pumpkin pie, and drank cider and witch's brew. good times.

a bunch of people dressed up as all the characters from peter pan. here's jeff as captain hook, jade as peter, casey as tinkerbell, alice as tigerlily, and jenny as wendy. they all did a really good job on their costumes!





liz was a renaissance lady and manav was pikachu.



karl dressed as a crazy scientist, and i was a flapper, later to be velma kelly of chicago fame.



manav posing as pikachu again.



housemate picture: carolyn as a cowgirl and me, the flapper.



chris's mom made his costume (jedi) and his girlfriend janelle's costume (hermione). really nice costumes.



phil didn't dress up, but he wore a pirate shirt to go along with jeff being captian hook.



cowgirls and indians!



we played a silly drinking game called moose, where you bounce a quarter into an ice-cube tray and depending where it lands you either take or give out drinks.



everyone has to pay close attention because when the quarter lands in the furthest ice-cube slot, everyone has to yell "moose!" and put their hands up by their head.



jade was having issues bouncing the quarter, but then again, so was i and everyone else.



even alice.



i lost the first round of moose by being the last one to put my hands up because i wasn't paying attention. then i had to drink the communal cup of witch's brew in the middle of the table. but manav lost the second time.



carolyn, chris, and janelle didn't actually play, but watched instead.



casey went into the pantry to see if her wings glowed-in-the-dark. they did. but she left glitter everywhere.



jeff, phil, and alice sit on a spider-web covered couch. chris went all out decorating.



jade, carolyn, and manav.



jenny dressed rich up as a hawaiian hula girl. too bad erica was in arizona and couldn't teach him to actually hula.



and jenny cops a feel of rich's coconuts.



after hanging out at chris's place for a while, we went over to gpscy (around 8ish) where the biggest party of the year was supposed to happen. on the way, rich's coconuts ended up lopsided.



rich and jenny pose.



diana came to gpscy from a party at her pi's house.



jade, jeff, and liz sitting on the couch at gpscy.



after it got really crowed at gpscy--so crowed that you couldn't even move on the dance floor anymore-- we took the yale shuttle over to the sculpture building and went to the art/archie party. the music was better there than at gpscy, and it was a lot less crowded. here are jeff, alice, jade, and liz dancing.



and diana, casey, and carolyn dancing.



manav dancing.



manav and me dancing.



casey threw confetti everywhere, including in our drinks, and all over jeff, jade, and liz here.



more people dancing-- casey,



alice and jeff,



manav, diana, and carolyn,



casey again,



manav and jade,



casey and jeff,



and casey and manav





when i got home around 1:30 my feet were killing me. but i did manage to wear the wig and the three-inch heels all night long. and it was a long night; i think we partied for 8 hours straight! i think everyone had a fantastic time. we didn't meet any cute boys, but manav and i decided that we should go to art parties more often because the prospects are better than in biology where everyone is unavailable.

after soaking my sad, sad feet in hot water, it was bedtime. i curled up in my bed full of fluffies and went to sleep. thank goodness for daylight savings and that extra hour!

and today is going to be a non-productive day! i think i will sit and watch more of the fourth season of the simpsons. that seems like a better thing to do than write a genetics summary. here's to a lazy sunday!

fluffies!