Happy Hallowe'en, everyone!
I did much better tonight, matching my best week of the season to date: 173, 201, 151. I have no idea how I got that 151 in the third game, though - I only had 65 after the first five frames, and I didn't think I finished that well. I embarrassed myself slightly in the tenth frame, though - we were down by something like seven pins, the other team was finished, and I was the anchor tonight in Mario's absence. I went up and got a strike, came back to look at the scoreboard, and was perplexed for a moment when the strike hadn't registered - and then I realized I'd bowled on the wrong lane. *facepalm* First time I've ever done that, I think. In tournament bowling it wouldn't count, but the other team let me have it.
For the first time in the ten years since I joined the league, there were no guys in drag in the Hallowe'en costume competition. In fact, there were no guys in drag there tonight at all - the closest was Florante, who came dressed as Max Minagawa, another bowler in the league (he does this schtick every year), and wore a kimono. (Florante's a strange one - every time he sees me, he says my full name. Nothing else, just my name. He says he likes the way it sounds. He also grabs my hand, strokes it, and says, "You're skin's so soft - you must not work!" He's never come on Hallowe'en dressed as me, though. It would be simple - sweatpants and a science-fiction- or convention-related t-shirt. Though I don't know how many people would get it without an explanation - the Wednesday night bowlers would get it immediately, but I've only been bowling on Fridays for a little over a year, and this group doesn't razz me about the sweats the way the Wednesday people did.)
There was one absolutely fantastic costume, though - one of the women in the league came as Wednesday Addams, and she nailed it perfectly.
I'd heard that Church Street was already closed around 6 this evening, and there were a lot of people out already at that time. I'm not going downtown to check out the costumes, though - I'm too tired, and besides, I saw plenty of costumes on the subway on my way home. Memo to the guy I saw at Davisville station: if you're going to dress as a ballerina for Hallowe'en, don't just put a pink tutu on over a pair of khakis.
And I'm hereby declaring that wings are passe. It seemed that every fifth person, and every other teenage boy, was wearing a pair of wings. I think it was three or four years ago, when I went to a Hallowe'en dance at Buddies In Bad Times Theatre with cuteteenboy, kosst_amojan and dx4, that I first saw people wearing wings. Enough already.
I have a meeting tomorrow afternoon, so I'm hoping to get to bed early tonight. I have to write something for Anticipation's Progress Report 3, though - it was actually due today, but I managed to get an extension until tomorrow. I saw the email a few weeks ago about the deadline, and left it in my Inbox so that I would remember, but then my Inbox got out of control and it wasn't until yesterday, when I went through every email that was still in there since the beginning of September, that I found it again. Oops.
For the first time in the ten years since I joined the league, there were no guys in drag in the Hallowe'en costume competition. In fact, there were no guys in drag there tonight at all - the closest was Florante, who came dressed as Max Minagawa, another bowler in the league (he does this schtick every year), and wore a kimono. (Florante's a strange one - every time he sees me, he says my full name. Nothing else, just my name. He says he likes the way it sounds. He also grabs my hand, strokes it, and says, "You're skin's so soft - you must not work!" He's never come on Hallowe'en dressed as me, though. It would be simple - sweatpants and a science-fiction- or convention-related t-shirt. Though I don't know how many people would get it without an explanation - the Wednesday night bowlers would get it immediately, but I've only been bowling on Fridays for a little over a year, and this group doesn't razz me about the sweats the way the Wednesday people did.)
There was one absolutely fantastic costume, though - one of the women in the league came as Wednesday Addams, and she nailed it perfectly.
I'd heard that Church Street was already closed around 6 this evening, and there were a lot of people out already at that time. I'm not going downtown to check out the costumes, though - I'm too tired, and besides, I saw plenty of costumes on the subway on my way home. Memo to the guy I saw at Davisville station: if you're going to dress as a ballerina for Hallowe'en, don't just put a pink tutu on over a pair of khakis.
And I'm hereby declaring that wings are passe. It seemed that every fifth person, and every other teenage boy, was wearing a pair of wings. I think it was three or four years ago, when I went to a Hallowe'en dance at Buddies In Bad Times Theatre with cuteteenboy, kosst_amojan and dx4, that I first saw people wearing wings. Enough already.
I have a meeting tomorrow afternoon, so I'm hoping to get to bed early tonight. I have to write something for Anticipation's Progress Report 3, though - it was actually due today, but I managed to get an extension until tomorrow. I saw the email a few weeks ago about the deadline, and left it in my Inbox so that I would remember, but then my Inbox got out of control and it wasn't until yesterday, when I went through every email that was still in there since the beginning of September, that I found it again. Oops.