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ATTENTION EVERYBODY. I have recently been informed by none other than my own personal eyes that Target now carries Ritter-Sport. For $1.79. Which is good.

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Also! Remember my hot Argentinian music theory professor, JC, who has the awesome accent and incidentally happens to be really hot? Well, he's going to a theory conference of some kind this week, which means that his nine o'clock class I'm always having to get up for? Canceled! Which is highly convenient, considering that this is the week I also have to get plenty of sleep and do some serious studying for the subject GRE. I win! Although I will miss having the actual class, for it is taught by JC the hot professor, who also happens to be my favorite type of teacher, the irrationally enthusiastic kind:

Arbitrary Member Of The Class: Wait, I'm totally confused about this.
JC: That's good! That's great that you're confused! What part of it are you having trouble understanding?
Same Arbitrary Person: Uh, all of it.
JC: Perfect! That means you're learning! That's terrific! :D [then proceeds to explain the concept in greater depth, to his credit]

In tangentially-related news, I am concerned about the subject GRE! And I totally just stayed at work until 12:30 a.m. on a Monday, which sucks! But I am in a freakishly good mood, possibly having something to do with the three-hour nap I took upon coming home after JC's class, and also possibly having something to do with hearing one of my managers refer to our esteemed guests in a cheerful (if somewhat bewildered) voice as "savages," in the aftermath of what they wrought on the Halloween costumes tonight. I ♥ my managers.

In conclusion-- Happy L's Birthday! He's 27 today, which is an important milestone age for an anime character. Depending on which school of thought you subscribe to, he is now either a Candidate for Confirmed Bachelorhood or just Over The Hill.

The Ghost of Halloweens Past

THE TIMESTAMP SAYS IT'S STILL HALLOWEEN. I CAN STILL REFER TO OCTOBER 31st AS TODAY. RLY.

That being said...

You ever notice how holidays are great time capsules? It's kind of cool how much easier it is to remember ordinary things because of the day they happened.

Fifteen years ago today, it started blizzarding in the late morning in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota, and didn't stop until it was time to go trick-or-treating. My four-year-old brother flushed the nose to my clown costume down the toilet, so all the pictures of me sitting in a snowdrift dressed as a clown show my nose painted yellow instead.

Ten years and one week ago today, our 11-year-old cat Earl died of complications from feline diabetes.

Nine years ago today, I went trick-or-treating for the last time with a big group of friends in Minneapolis. I don't remember what I was, though.

Four years ago today, I spent the evening in the library taking a calculus test. I could hear people outside having fun. It sucked.

One year ago today, I left Halloween dinner early with a huge headache and went home to lie down in the dark. Since I was the only one home all evening, the apartment stayed dark and that pretty much negated any chance of having to break out the bag of Snickers bars I'd bought in case of trick-or-treaters. I was forced--FORCED--to eat them all by myself. (Not all at once though.)

Tonight, I dressed as a Target team member and worked in Toys, which I thought wouldn't be so bad because, you know, I figured there wouldn't be as many kids coming in tonight. They'd be otherwise occupied, and all. But it sucked, and I spent pretty much all night covering for other people, and for God's sake what the hell was the girl in Electronics DOING that was keeping her on her breaks so long, and the whole evening I kept trying to get a chance to take a bathroom break because I'd just HAD to go to Caribou before work and try a Campfire Mocha (which is an excellent drink, by the way; I highly recommend it) but NOOOOO, so I was grumpy. It was kind of novel seeing every one of the team leads in one spot, though--they all came at closing time to set up all the Christmas stuff in Seasonal. So tomorrow it'll be all Christmasy-like and stuff.

ETA: According to the comm archive, yesterday and today have been the highest-traffic days in death_eyes's history. I wonder why that could be. Why can't two dozen people draw fanart for my birthday?