The last hours of October are draining down the gutter as I write. Kids are out with their sacks, getting them filled, the greedy little things. Disguised and sugar-crazed, they are freezing their little buns off for meager rewards... right now, it's 32F in Topeka-land.
I can't really remember the last time that I went trick-or-treating, but the one time that I really remember was with my big brother, must've been '56 or '57. We went up and down several very long blocks and literally got pounds of goodies... like, a grocery-sack full apiece. I don't remember the costumes at all, but I do know that they weren't store-bought ones. Nobody that we knew had store-bought costumes. I was probably a bum. I always enjoyed being a bum, and I was pretty good at it, so I thought. And bum clothes were easy... Long day at work today. I was doing biopsies, and we started off with three... and cancelled all three. Two of them we'll do tomorrow, and since it's the first of the month, our rotation changed and I'm doing biopsies again. It's really frustrating to have exams cancell, 'cause we have to do the same amount of work, only there's absolutely no satisfaction in it at all. Quite the opposite, in fact. And satisfaction is hard to come by, as noted by Mick Jagger. Again last night, up all night, off and on. I actually got up for an hour or so, 'cause I was frustrated and bored with laying there awake. This did not add anything positive to my day, let me tell you. Matt and Lacee and Emily just left... little girls screech. Hurts my head. Sugar? Yeah, that does it. And I'm eating more than I should, too. Butterfingers and Almond Joys. Little bitty ones, I have to eat six or seven. Not just 'cause they're little, but 'cause I love 'em. They'll kill me, dammit. Which would be OK if I could die with the taste of an Almond Joy in my mouth, but I know that it doesn't work that way. Back and legs, though, they're killing me too, and that's the way most people die... hurting. Not fair, not fair at all, is it? To bed now, and to sleep, I hope. I almost forgot to mention... it snowed today! Yep, real snowflakes. Didn't stick, but it snowed off and on most of the day. So I can really retire my sandals, heh.