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 So I guess it is official.... it is Halloween! I am very very excited! I am like a little kid when Halloween comes around!!

This year I had an elaborate costume idea planned with Ryan... we were going to be the 1930s era "Universal monsters," featuring me as the Bride of Frankenstein. Well, a few monsters dropped out, so we are tabling that idea ( Read more... )

Halloween was filled with all of my favorite things: friends, candy, handcrafted costumes, Gilligan's Island, the annual Spiraling concert, boys in drag... and the list goes on ( Read more... )

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Today, at 4 PM, is my goodbye party from the Brooklyn Museum. As you can imagine I am full of mixed emotions -- it is very bittersweet! I have been here for 5 years, and I love my job and my friends here. It is just a part of being a career-changer. Not everyone that changes careers hates their old job -- they are just looking for their true ( Read more... )

Remember my hair issues? I grew my hair out long for Halloween because I was going to dye it red to be Ginger from "Gilligan's Island." Anyway, I was all set to do so until I realized that I am now making part-time wages, and soon to be looking for work (more on that later). To get my dark hair red, it would be a two-process color, and would ( Read more... )

Today after work I am going to my hairdresser, Chuck, to get my bangs trimmed. Chuck tells me that it is FREE to get a bangs trim between haircuts. (Hooray!) I have bought Chuck a book that we talked about the last time I saw him. It's Gene Wilder's Kiss Me Like a Stranger, and I told him about it because he was wearing a Gene Wilder/Gilda Radner ( Read more... )

There's this place I have been to twice, and it's where you go when UPS/FedEx tried to deliver your packages, but you weren't home, so you have to go pick them up ( Read more... )

Friends: Halloween is on a FRIDAY this year, which means I will finally get to celebrate it properly, at the Village Parade! What's that, you say? Why am I thinking about this SEVEN MONTHS IN ADVANCE?!

There are good reasons for that:

1.) I make my own costume every year. Just me and my li'l ol' sewing machine. In the past I've been pulling it ( Read more... )