Well, the Halloween party was last night and dear me oh my. We got wind of another party being cancelled while we were setting up and we kinda held our breath. But sure enough, we got *slammed*. The place was completely full by around 10:30/11. By midnight, we had to take time off from letting people inside. That meant that there were people on the street clamoring to get in. This was not good considering the cops see crowds and break up parties. The folks at the door tried to get the crowd to disperse, but it couldn’t be kept up and the crowd kept growing. It took a bunch of strong folks physical effort to keep people at bay. Folks were on top of cars, screaming, raging drunk. Inside was another level of drunken chaos. I was trying to keep the entrance way at bay. Needless to say, we got broken up. By like 1:30ish. But honestly, i have to say phew. It was just absolute madness all night; over 900 people went in and out of that door (obviously not at once). The decorations were great, the music was great, the haunted house was awesome. But that was just a bit too much. And i forgot how much i can’t stand overly drunk frat boys; too many of them yelled at me because we wouldn’t let them in without a costume.

After it was all over, we cleaned up (way too many beer bottles) and actually got to chill out. It was so nice though because the whole community was there and so it was such a good way to spend time with friends – chaos over, friends left, yum…

Oh, and a couple of meta thoughts on the night…

1. No one takes your meanness seriously when you’re dressed like a half-naked fuzzy bunny.

2. How many times must i learn the hard way that easy access to scissors and hair dye is dangerous, especially when i decide to get creative with only a few hours left before the party? They say that the average person can learn any bit of knowledge after 8 times of repetition. Apparently, i’m very deficient at this type of knowledge acquisition.