for tonight is Hallowe'en, the morn is Hallow-day

[hedda62]

Our neighbors' granddaughter just came by trick-or-treating; she is a vampire-ghost-princess, a splendid example of consolidation. As usual, we won't get a lot of kids and the candy supply will be insufficiently diminished and will have to migrate to J's office tomorrow. We've already taken all the Heath bars out of the mix for us, but aside from that I'm surprisingly uninterested - used to dark chocolate exclusively now, I guess. Well, okay, I might have a packet of Reese's Pieces. Just because.

Speaking of Person of Interest, no I wasn't. But this week's episode was really good again, and we all ship Shaw/Root now, and I hope we can say the earlier disappointments were just a hiccup. And oh, Mr. Finch. I will take Utter Bastard Harold for the rest of the season, please.

In a not totally random turn of thought, it occurred to me today to wonder whether anyone had done a Ben Linus vid to "Behind Blue Eyes." No one knows what it's like, you know.

This has been a week of getting caught up in stupid minutiae and/or things I shouldn't be spending time on because I can't do them, and I feel I've made precisely no progress on what I want to have done. Today was largely about a continuing blog project involving purple sweet potatoes. I wish I could claim to have made a scary blue-green cake on purpose for Halloween, but I'm afraid it's just proof that you can't use baking powder or baking soda with purple ingredients. Chemistry! It should taste better than it looks, at least.

I wish this cold would go away all the way. My nose and ears are stuffed up in an irritating fashion.

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Then win me, win me, an ye will, For weel I wat ye may

[pendrecarc]

Every year I mean to post my Halloween playlist, and every year I forget.

So glad our show is back. I hope they keep this momentum right through to the mid-season cliffhanger. Relatedly, am still working my way through a rewatch of Lost. Last night's episode was "The Shape of Things to Come", which if anything hits harder the second time around.

Re: Then win me, win me, an ye will, For weel I wat ye may

[hedda62]

You could still post it, you know! I have a playlist titled "Supernatural" which would have done, and I totally forgot to play it. Though "Tam Lin" came up in the "Names" playlist I was walking to.

And oh, ow, "The Shape of Things to Come." I've watched it… maybe four times now, and it doesn't get any easier. Except that I can appreciate better how well it's put together.

Re: Then win me, win me, an ye will, For weel I wat ye may

[pendrecarc]

Which recording do you have? My best friend from high school is a folk musician who lives in Edinburgh, and as a direct result of her decade-long obsession with that song, I had about half a dozen versions at the height of my iTunes library....

Re: Then win me, win me, an ye will, For weel I wat ye may

[hedda62]

Fairport Convention. And ha, you're going to enjoy the fourth book in my series…

Re: Then win me, win me, an ye will, For weel I wat ye may

[pendrecarc]

SO EXCITED to read your book, by the way. Looking forward to the release very much. :)

[philomytha]

Vampire-ghost-princess is an excellent costume! We went trick-or-treating, since despite many grumbles the tradition is moving in here. I'm glad; when we moved to England nobody went trick-or-treating and we kids missed it a lot. Philomythulus was a red Lego brick, and making the costume involved truly spectacular amounts of red poster paint splattered all over the house. But it was fun :-). I was really touched that the other kids on our street specially invited him to go with them.

[hedda62]

Red Lego brick - what a great costume! It is fun; I enjoyed the years we had of taking the kids around.