Subway Rat Habitat

Oh, DC Halloween. I've been curious about how DC celebrates Halloween for a long time. No, people do not dress up for work. Yes, people do dress up at night. I raced home from work to get ready and was looking forward to a short nap to sustain me for the rest of the night but after getting back to the apartment I realized I forgot to pick up my checks at the post office. I had to return to get them because I had to pay rent so I walked all the way back. Waited in line at the post office for a long time, I saw a witch while I was there. On the way back a homeless man shouted at me, "HEY PRECIOUS, YOU GOT SOME CHANGE FOR ME?"

When I came back to the apartment the second time I realized on my walk that the trick-or-treaters were already out collecting their dues! I raced back to throw the Reese's in a bowl and immediately had several little kids at my door. So cute. Does this mean I'm a grown up now? There were way more Hannah Montana's than anything else. One little boy was a dinosaur and when I opened the door he let out a quiet little "raaaaarrrrr".. he must have been 3 years old! So cute.

So I never got my nap. I showered and put my costume on (Subway Rat!!! Rat that rides on the subway...) and walked back out to catch the metro. I knew I was in for it when on my walk through Union Station I saw a HUGE dude dressed like Frankenstein already so wasted that he couldn't walk, he was slumped over on a girl who was two feet shorter than him. Oh, Halloween. There were lots of the slutty college girl costumes (police with cleavage and no real pants to speak of, tinkerbells with magic wands, etc).

I met up with C and T in Dupont for a house party. It was massive- there were probably around 300 people there. I felt really out of place, as did my friends from Warren Wilson. We're just not used to so many people at a party. They had a great DJ if you could even get in the room where people were dancing. They also had bountiful "refreshments" which was nice. There was a girl there dressed up like a bottle of Jagermeister- that was awesome. She even had antlers on. Another guy was dressed as an LOL Cat- he had a sign that said "I CAN HAZ SNUGLEZ?"

We party hopped to another house party that was also really fun. They had a really nice keg of beer in the shower and good chocolate candy. We enjoyed it. THEN we walked to Adam's Morgan and got JUMBO SLICE. Now, I'm pretty sure Jumbo Slice is something only DC peeps know about because I've never heard of it until now. There are several of these shops around areas of active late night activities. You walk in, pay your $4.50, and get a slice of pizza so big that it is served to you on two paper plates.

The pizza is really thin and good and you can put parm and Italian herbs or hot pepper on it. The place was PACKED with all the hungry costumed DC party-goers. C, T, and I sat down and a giant hot dog sat down with us. I remember saying, "HEY... WHY AREN'T YOU EATING HOT DOGS, HOT DOG?" Oh god, what a night.

After trying to get a cab for 800 years we finally got a private driver car who had NO IDEA how to get to Capitol Hill (where I live). Seriously... 45 minutes later we get there after T and I are giving him our own directions.

So today E and I spent recovering from our fun- I was out till 4:00AM so today was pretty shot. We watched re-runs of West Wing and ate candy all day. I celebrated Dia de los Muertos.

I cooked Sam some steak as an offering. I have never cooked steak before but I think I did a really good job! I put it in a skillet with some olive oil, pepper, soy sauce, brown sugar, and chili powder. I liked it , I think she probably did too. So I guess now everyone thinks I'm 100% crazy.. but whatever. It makes me feel better. Feliz dia de los muertos, todos.

So, before all the Halloween candy is eaten I wanted to put up a link to YES WE CARVE- a site dedicated to jackolanterns carved in support of Barack Obama. Kind of the coolest thing ever. Thad showed that to me.