Halloween

A little boy came to our door dressed up as a compact fluorescent light bulb, complete with a band that listed his wattage and amps used. Best costume ever.

October

It's currently my favorite time of year. It's the time of year that (at least in New England) wild turkeys run rampant and wild along the highways, that frost lingers in the air, and that everything is pumpkin flavored. I love fall, and it is 100% more awesome here than it was in Washington State. People here get really into fall. They go on hay rides, make really elaborate corn mazes and open them up to the public, float pumpkin boats down rivers, and attempt to make anything and everything pumpkin flavored. It is a pretty awesome season.

Yesterday, my husband and I went to the most massive corn maze ever with another couple. The theme was "Under the Sea," and supposedly if you looked at the maze from a helicopter, it actually formed the image of a lobster and other sea life. It also encompassed 5 acres of maze goodness. There's something really neat about running around in corn fields. After we finished the maze, we went on a hay ride to look for pumpkins. That was fun too, although we left without pumpkins. You have to find just the right one, y'know? It has to speak to you. This same farm also had a corn cannon, where you could shoot ears of corn across a field to hit wooden cut outs. Although we didn't try it, we got a big kick out of watching little kids attempt to hit a blue cow made out of old oil drums.

Anyway, I'm on day four of a four day weekend, which means (predictably) that I've had a lot of fun and gotten plenty of sleep but I haven't accomplished much in the way of school work. That's today. It's time to learn about psychiatry.