Happy Halloween! I love Halloween. Time to get dressed up again! 10*29*06 I went upstate with Patrick and some of his friends to another one of their friends' Halloween party on Friday night. Aside from the car ride there (I saw my life flash before my eyes every 3 minutes, and finally turned to Patrick to mouth "I don't want to die"), I had a really good time. My costume went over pretty great, as did Patrick's. But one of his friends dressed like a short wizard and stole the show because he looked absolutely hysterical when he danced. I have a short video of it, but I still have to figure out how to upload videos from my camera to my computer. Around 2 in the morning I felt completely wasted and had to go to bed (we slept there). Apparently when Patrick tried to go to sleep, I wouldn't move over and grunted at him repeatedly. I don't remember this at all, but I can only imagine that it was irresistibly attractive. I spent most of yesterday hungover, and wasn't able to eat until around 6. Because of my queasy state, I decided to stay in last night to play it safe. Today I cleaned my whole place and am thinking about studying for my certification test until I go to bed. I hope to be joined by Patrick Tuesday night in costume once more. I'm not quite sure what to do, but there seems to be plenty going on. 10*28*06
10*23*06 I forgot to mention that over the weekend, Patrick and I were buying ingredients to make French toast at a bodega when we walked past a waist-high freezer and heard some rustling coming from the shelves above. I looked back just in time to see a rat jump from a shelf and onto the freezer. I ran over to Patrick wide-eyed and told him what had happened. He quickly found the vanilla extract he needed and we hastily paid for it. But apparently we weren't hasty enough, for we then witnessed a worker pick up something over by where I saw the rat and proceed to beat the rat to death. When the rat started screaming, I followed suit and ran shrieking out of the store. I got the rest of my costume today and spent WAY too much money on it. Luckily I got home to find $500 in my mailbox which my aunt owed me from an inheritance my grandfather left me a few years ago. Talk about good timing. In other news, my head hurts! 10*22*06 I was just trying to make a severed head for my Halloween costume out of a mask and a wig, but I think I've decided to just buy one of the severed heads I saw at the Halloween store instead. Or maybe I'll just get a better mask. Otherwise I'm almost done with the costume. Patrick and I skipped Coney Island on Saturday to get his Halloween costume (he's going as a mad scientist). I'm pretty sure we're going upstate for a costume party Friday night. I'd like to try and find something else to dress up for Saturday and/or Sunday as well. I found out Friday that our newest lab technician gave his two weeks notice. I'm a bit annoyed because this means we're going to be super short-handed and I'm mostly going to have to deal with it since he worked on my shift. But it also means I stand to make more money since I'll have more donors to myself. He wasn't cut out for the job anyway; he couldn't deal with dead people. I don't know what would possess a person to take my job if they couldn't handle seeing corpses. Anyway, I feel a little out of it. I don't know why exactly. Maybe it's because I spent most of the weekend away from my apartment, or because this month seems to be flying by, or because I don't want to go to work tomorrow. Whatever the reason, I hope I snap out of it soon. 10*18*06 I just realized today that I really miss Patrick (the guy I'm seeing). The last time I saw him was Sunday morning, which I realize wasn't that long ago. And we're seeing each other tomorrow night even, but nonetheless.... I was just thinking about when I was 18 and dating Adam. I was away at college, so we'd only see each other on the weekend, which I suppose wasn't that bad. But I remember during the first few months of our relationship, when I'd have to say goodbye to him at the end of the weekend, I'd feel a huge pain in my chest and would always burst into tears. Anyway, I think Patrick and I are going to Coney Island Saturday if the weather is nice. Maybe I'll get the rest of my Halloween costume this weekend as well. And I HAVE to study for this certification test! I'm such a procrastinator. 10*16*06 So I bought some items yesterday to make a human head for Halloween. I ended up spending way more than I wanted to on it though, and went home afterwards to sulk. I should enter a Halloween costume contest to make my money back. I suppose the only thing that would suck about that is that since I live in NYC, there are way more creative people here than me and I'd most likely lose. Oh well. I had a pretty good weekend despite my money squandering ways. I spent most of Saturday with the new guy. We went to a party in Williamsburg which was kind of boring, but I enjoyed his company nonetheless. There was some hipster there he kept calling Johnny Haircut (to me only, of course); I'm still getting a kick out of it. Anyway, I really like him, but I'm trying not to count all my chickens before they've hatched. And of course when they do hatch, I'll set them free to graze in an open field being the tree-hugging vegetarian I am. But seriously, for once I'm not freaking out about where this is going, and am just enjoying myself for the time being. Perhaps the therapy is doing some good? I'm going to San Francisco in a little less than a month. I'm pretty sure I mentioned it here before, but, as a refresher, my company is flying me out there to take a test to get certified. I decided since I've never been there and have always wanted to go, that I'd stay four days after the test to explore the area. I'm really excited. Other than that, I've been feeling kind of out of it lately and I think it's because of my Singulair. I usually take it before bed, but I had to take it yesterday morning because I forgot to take it the night before. I spent most of the day feeling dizzy and in a haze. It was the worst when I was walking through the crowded Halloween store surrounded by gory props. I thought I was going to pass out. But I usually only feel dizzy at night, and aside from the occasional swelling of my hands, my allergies aren't bothering me at all. Although, I suppose the dizziness and swelling would probably be considered a mild allergic reaction in and of itself. I guess everything has its tradeoffs. 10*11*06 I've just had a major breakthrough! I think I figured out my Halloween costume! It won't be as good as previous years' costumes, but it's original...and that's gotta count for something. I'm so excited! Now I just have to figure out where I can buy a fake human head. 10*10*06 I was cutting some eyes out uptown today, and was exchanging pleasantries with the morgue attendant about our respective jobs. I asked him what the craziest thing he ever saw was (I think that's a pretty standard question when you're in the business of dealing with the dead). Anyway, I was expecting something gruesome, but instead he told me it was probably when Bobbie Brown and Whitney Houston came to view the body of their deceased father in the morgue...both high as kites. He said Bobbie Brown was crawling around the morgue floor on his hands and knees (which, by the way, is gross for obvious reasons, but also because this morgue has its share of cockroaches). He then started accusing the morgue attendant of stealing some necklace. I wish I had more stories about stupid things living people did in my profession. Well, I have plenty of stories about stupid things my co-workers do, but I don't want to badmouth them here. So I promised pictures several weeks ago from a night Brook and I spent out by the South Street Seaport, and I finally uploaded them yesterday. They're going to be pretty anticlimactic at this point, but a promise is a promise:
10*08*06 Friday night I was waiting for the new guy I'm seeing on 4th Street near 6th Avenue in Manhattan when I heard a group of about 20 people all shouting the same thing in unison on the corner of 6th Avenue. A few minutes later, they made their way over to a church across the street from me and began shouting again. I started to think that maybe it was some religious thing until they all stripped down to their underwear. Of course then I ran across the street to see what was going on...me and everyone else on the block. Even traffic came to a halt. About 6 men and women laid stomach down on a blanket they put on the sidewalk, while 6 other men and women stood over each of them. They then all started slowly gyrating and moaning orgasmically until it sounded like they all climaxed; all the while, a female was being pushed between the legs of the people standing up. When the woman finally emerged out the other side of the group, she shouted that she had just been born and she was the god Dionysus. After her little speech, everyone put their clothes back on and it was finished. I tried to take a picture on my camera phone, but some guy told me I couldn't and then handed me a postcard for their off-stage production. Anyway, it's very rare I see something in NYC that surprises me, but this took the cake. I then met up with my date and we headed to one of the haunted houses they have in Manhattan this year. It was pretty lame, but I had a good time the rest of the night. I spent most of Saturday with him as well, and then went to bed early last night since I was on-call. Today I decided it'd be a good idea to spend money i don't have on clothes and shoes. I love my purchases, but I feel a bit guilty. Oh well.I think I'm the only one I know who has off of work tomorrow for Columbus Day. Perhaps everyone else has realized what a jerk Columbus was and decided not to commemorate the holiday. Regardless, I'm pretty happy I have off. The only thing that sucks is that since no one else has off, no one else feels like staying out late with me :( Meh! 10*04*06 So I met up with my date from Sunday night again last night, and we made up for not kissing last time. He's actually a friend of Brook's that I met at her birthday party a few weeks ago. It's so rare I meet guys I like in the real world. But I guess if I were being technical, I met Brook through an ex whom I met off the internet, so it still somehow all ties back to the web. Anyway, I like him, but I will try not to exploit our goings-on here...at least not until I have a better idea where this is going. Lost season 3 premier tonight! Are you as excited as I am?! Are you as big a dork as I am? 10*01*06 I had a date last night...but I didn't realize it was a date until today. A lack of communication lead to some confusion. But now that I know, I wish I had kissed him. Oh well. We saw The Science of Sleep at BAM, which had its moments, but all in all was kind of disappointing. Plus Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is one of my favorite movies, so I had pretty high expectations. I was in the operating room today for an organ donor case, and had a small audience watch me remove a whole eye. One woman kept gasping every time I snipped anything, and the guy standing next to her kept saying, "Oh c'mon!". Later I overheard two guys talking that left the O.R. right after me; one guy commented to the other, "Yo there's some crazy shit going on in there! They just cut that guy's eye out!" It was pretty funny. Being desensitized is hilarious!I've recently become obsessed with Wonder Showzen after discovering some clips on YouTube. I think it's safe to say that I've never seen anything so offensive on TV (not counting the news). So of course I love it. Watch a clip, won't you?
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