Jason doing his awesome tailgating thing.

Sarah and I enjoying the game!

Check it out! We have a pretty downtown! And it appears we had city planner who laid the city out in a intelligent manner. Who knew?

My Christmas cactus. Very proud that it’s blooming so nicely, even if it’s not Thanksgiving yet.

A peaceful shot and proof that we didn’t destroy the place.

Jason “Awesome”. Doin’ the Program thang.

My great friends aboard the Henrietta: John, Leslie, David and Laura.

Nothing to see here.

The Battleship North Carolina.

They’re not having as much fun as it looks like they are.

Or it might be just because my grad school group really is SO DAMN AWESOME. I was uncharacteristically sincere this evening when in a moment of (non-alcoholic) honesty I told my colleagues how great they all are. I think they were looking for the punchline but I meant it: there are some really fantastic and brilliant folks in my grad program and I’m really glad to know ‘em.

The entire experience was vaguely creepy and made more so by a couple of odd experiences. First, the movie was in Fletcher Hall at the Carolina Theater and we sat in the balcony. Did not know it but there’s actually a third balcony level and my friends Mike and Sarah and I wandered the deserted, maze-like levels of the theater. It was really disconcerting and the payoff was hanging in the third-tier balcony lobby playing a creepy horror music on an old out-of-tune piano. Ghosts hate that.

After the movie we wandered around downtown Durham trying to find some place to eat. The weird thing is there was NO ONE THERE. It was like the plague had come to town and at any moment we could expect a horde of zombies to come around the corner. It was especially odd since it was 1. downtown and 2. a really beautiful day.

So all in all, a very appropriate Halloween. And added to my recent experiences of not one but TWO Haunted Houses and not one but TWO sowings of ‘Paranormal Activity 2′ (OMFG, so scary!) I feel like I really did the holiday right this year, and all without having to get dressed up.

WIN.

Notice anything different?