The Friday Five on a Monday
1. Do you celebrate or observe Halloween? How?
Carving pumpkins. Roasting pumpkin seeds. Helping the kids pick out costumes and taking them trick-or-treating.
2. What is your favorite Halloween candy?
I love mini Butterfingers, but of course you don’t get those in the UK, so I’ll settle for mini packets of Haribo.
3. Do you get trick-or-treaters on Halloween?
We live in the sticks, so no. We take the children into the nearby town to go trick-or-treating with friends.
4. Do you enjoy dressing up in costumes?
I used to. I’m too tired to do so around Halloween these days as it falls in the middle of the university teaching term. But I used to go mad for it.
5. What is your favorite Halloween memory?
I don’t have a favourite memory, but I do have a favourite costume, which was the time I dressed up as the Annihilation Operator or Â, a superhero of my own invention. I had a spandex outfit, an awesome pair of Transmuter boots, a homemade logo, and a ray gun. What else do you need to go out killing particles?
(My description from 2003, OH LOR how this is 21 years ago?!) I am the Annihilation Operator! The dreaded A-hat! I have the power to destroy electrons on sight. My mortal enemy is my transpose, the Creation Operator. Without him, though, I cannot build a Hamiltonian or see my true love, the Kroneker delta, the only one who doesn't go to zero at the sight of me.
Carving pumpkins. Roasting pumpkin seeds. Helping the kids pick out costumes and taking them trick-or-treating.
2. What is your favorite Halloween candy?
I love mini Butterfingers, but of course you don’t get those in the UK, so I’ll settle for mini packets of Haribo.
3. Do you get trick-or-treaters on Halloween?
We live in the sticks, so no. We take the children into the nearby town to go trick-or-treating with friends.
4. Do you enjoy dressing up in costumes?
I used to. I’m too tired to do so around Halloween these days as it falls in the middle of the university teaching term. But I used to go mad for it.
5. What is your favorite Halloween memory?
I don’t have a favourite memory, but I do have a favourite costume, which was the time I dressed up as the Annihilation Operator or Â, a superhero of my own invention. I had a spandex outfit, an awesome pair of Transmuter boots, a homemade logo, and a ray gun. What else do you need to go out killing particles?
(My description from 2003, OH LOR how this is 21 years ago?!) I am the Annihilation Operator! The dreaded A-hat! I have the power to destroy electrons on sight. My mortal enemy is my transpose, the Creation Operator. Without him, though, I cannot build a Hamiltonian or see my true love, the Kroneker delta, the only one who doesn't go to zero at the sight of me.