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[totient]

6:12: first out-of-neighborhood kids.
6:22: I'm starting to get compliments on the house from the kids.
6:30: 18 kids.
6:36: 26 kids. dinner arrives. I'm starting to notice a dent in the first (of three) bowls of candy.
6:40: how come the older kids always have the lamer costumes?
6:55: 89 kids, and the end of the first bowl of candy.
6:59: 100 kids.
7:13: a short lull at 144 kids -- time to hit "post"

Comments

Location, location, location

[starheptagon.livejournal.com]

I'm at 3 people! Somehow I think you're going to have more.

[imvfd.livejournal.com]

Re: 6:40, yup, it's true. And I'm as guilty as anyone. While last year I put together a holy-shit-your-face-freaks-me-out-and-I'm-not-even-sure-why "constume", this year I spent the evening dressed as a grad student. As you might imagine, I did not win the Theatre@First costume contest.

In all seriousness, however (not that the last paragraph was not in ernest), I think that somehow the spirit of halloween... I'm not feeling like it's in the cultural bones anymore. Skin deep at best. The inherent value of dressing up and being creative appears to be dwindling. Why be creative if you can get candy for very little investment? The halmark of "true capitalism"? Egads, perhaps the concept of ROI has become so ensconsed in the cultural lexicon that you absorb it by the time you hit puberty and automatically evalute all time/energy commitments from that perspective.