Halloween at the office (and in general)
Lawyers and staff members alike are walking around in costume or at least parts of costumes. Apparently, a bunch of people transformed one of the larger case rooms into a "Haunted Hallway" so people can be "delightfully terrified." The email that was sent around promoting it also came with a warning: "If you are prone to seizures, stay away. Seriously."
I don't like haunted anythings anyway, but the seizure warning was the clincher. Luckily the door will be closed unless people are entering or exiting. And it's only for a half hour, twice this afternoon. However, this is the most I've seen the office do for a holiday thing. Usually for Halloween there are costume competitions. And they really really get into Christmas.
Last night, Adam carved out two pumpkins: a cat arching behind a fence, and a mushroom cloud from a nuclear explosion. The man understands scary. It's the rituals themselves that really matter, he says. We don't do costumes anymore, but we do set out scarecrows and decorations, intricately carved jack o'lanterns, among some other particular things. Adam is his own very personal kind of eclectic pagan, and he tends to work with some of the oldest magical rituals known. He's taught me a few, particularly blood rituals. I'm waiting for my new amber pentacle pendant to arrive in the mail before I do any work like that. The full moon of Samhain has technically happened already, but the veil is still thin enough of course. I love the tinglies I get whenever it's really thin.
Migraine's still here, yes. Not surprised.
I don't like haunted anythings anyway, but the seizure warning was the clincher. Luckily the door will be closed unless people are entering or exiting. And it's only for a half hour, twice this afternoon. However, this is the most I've seen the office do for a holiday thing. Usually for Halloween there are costume competitions. And they really really get into Christmas.
Last night, Adam carved out two pumpkins: a cat arching behind a fence, and a mushroom cloud from a nuclear explosion. The man understands scary. It's the rituals themselves that really matter, he says. We don't do costumes anymore, but we do set out scarecrows and decorations, intricately carved jack o'lanterns, among some other particular things. Adam is his own very personal kind of eclectic pagan, and he tends to work with some of the oldest magical rituals known. He's taught me a few, particularly blood rituals. I'm waiting for my new amber pentacle pendant to arrive in the mail before I do any work like that. The full moon of Samhain has technically happened already, but the veil is still thin enough of course. I love the tinglies I get whenever it's really thin.
Migraine's still here, yes. Not surprised.