November Kills Things

Quick question. WHEN THE HECK DID IT BECOME NOVEMBER?! This is absolutely RIDICULOUS. The semester is over half over and I don't know where it slipped away to! Literally. It was just October. C'mon calendar, what are you doing...

November sucks. All the fun fall stuff is usually over, now that Halloween has passed. No more corn mazes, no more haunted houses, no more bobbing for apples, no more ghosts and spiderwebs and pumpkins. Much-anticipated Halloween is over, so that's a letdown. To make matters worse, all the leaves are gone too! So much for fall foliage - with all the wind and rain its all just GONE. Summer is dead, and now Fall is too, but we don't even get the good parts of winter yet! Everything is just bare and gray and dead. La ti dah, huh?

As long as we are ranting about November, let's talk about Halloween albums on facebook. Like clockwork, they're part of November. In and of themselves they're not a big deal, but there were about a billion and four uploaded today and they just make me angry. Really, world? When did we all get so uncreative? Every single one is the same. If I have to look at another album filled with pictures of red cups and drunken bumblebees pushed up against boys in sombreros I might puke.

Girls especially have gotten really uncreative for Halloween. Girls were all either a "police officer", a "superhero", a "cat", or a slut. (Oops wait, everyone wore the slut costume this year, pardon my oversight.) The cat one especially gets me. Black lingerie and a couple of skinny squiggles on your cheeks for whiskers hardly counts as "dressing up for Halloween", in my opinion. More like you're dressing down and disrespecting yourself, thereby giving other people license to disrespect you as well. When did wearing the tightest, shortest "clothes" in the world start passing for a "costume" for Halloween? And why do we all just go along with it? It just makes me sad for the human race. I wish Halloween was more than an excuse for getting wasted in someone's basement while wearing underwear. Not classy ladies. Not classy at all.

Guys are at least slightly more creative and not too many of them had to be sewn into their outfits... except for that one guy wearing a thong. Nice, pal. I'm sure you were super warm all weekend. You should be so proud of yourself. Your grandma would be thrilled, I'm sure. Again, super classy. Guy's outfits might not be tight, but they're usually just as inappropriate. Ugh. Sorry to be hating on Halloween so much, it just really rubs me the wrong way.

Before I get too carried away with myself, Halloween isn't all bad. There are genuinely some fun people who did a good job costuming themselves this year. I was a big fan of people who busted into my lecture on Friday dressed up as Mario Kart - um, can you say awesome? They even had balloons sticking to their backs and had a duel in front of the 350 people in class. THAT, my friends, is creativity. Getting together with group costumes were also cool, like the Wizard of Oz, the Harry Potter gang, the rainbow (everyone as a different color) and the Village People (see here)- CREATIVE. Way more fun. Some of my other favorites were people dressed up like Sims (they just had green diamonds attached to their heads like halos- it took me awhile, but I thought that was hilarious), Apples-To-Apples cards, and who knows what else. There was some creativity out there, don't get me wrong.

I just wish there were a few more "referee's" wearing pants instead of heels this weekend, and that I could say the majority of people on my campus were fun and creative for Halloween instead of skanky and stupid. I thought this was a University where we learned things, but apparently not. All we learn about are dumb things (that are probably made up) like phosphate groups and the Golgi Apparatus. Sometimes this city makes me really mad.

November has killed the trees and my morale. BUT! Some things to get excited for:
1) THANKSGIVING!!!! Turkey, here I come. mmmmmhmm yum.
2) Football, football, and more football!! If the Packers can start protecting Aaron Rodgers instead of letting him get pummeled a million times per game and cut back on penalties, this would make November more enjoyable, but I am liking where the season is going. Bring on more football, November
3) getting to wear sweaters
4) Um... is there anything else? This month is just heinous.

Let's go November. Show me what you got.