HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

i love this holiday. it's warm and pretty this year and everyone's all a-buzz with excitement. i'm studying on my couch by the door so i can greet the tricker-treaters. so far the costumes aren't terribly original, but still cute. lots of super heroes. i just saw a banana. and a really precious curious george. there are of course the 13 year olds in sweat shirts pretending to be....not sure. hungry? a cute little orange witch just left. but apparently orange witches don't have any friends, because she was with her mom. (drag). speaking of moms and drags, can i confess a painful childhood memory to all of you out there? the halloween that i was in 2nd grade my mother actually gave out tiny boxes of raisins for halloween instead of candy. RAISINS!! as in dried fruit! as in to maintain regularity and provide you with essential vitamins but NOT to wish you a happy halloween. i was so embarrassed. it was so mortifying that i really thought i'd have to move. or change schools. i think i told my friends she was from latvia and didn't know any better. i guess i thought latvia sounded far away and plausible as a grape-growing nation of candy haters.

and so far, to my surprise, among the assorted candies i'm distributing, swedish fish is by far getting the most press. the kids are thrilled by them. in case you're unfamiliar, they are little red fish-shaped rotten banana tasting things, packaged in individual serving sized bags for halloween. who'd have thought any gummy candy could smoke baby ruths and twix bars in the ratings. my husband is strutting around about his candy choosing skills. i would never have picked anything non-chocolate, but i guess he was right on this one. curses.

not joking- just got hit up for money by a ninja. he had a little box for collecting donations for UNICEF. wow. i'm surprised these kids don't have web pages to which we can just paypal our candy and monetary donations. maybe his costume could have helped his cause. instead of being some sort of karate guy, he could have dressed up like a starving ethiopian or a homeless flood victim. he could have at least added a limp or a twitch.

and i am off to study now.

tomorrow is my last day in obgyn. i take my exam on friday and then i start family medicine in an out-patient clinic on monday. i have loved obgyn but am ready to move on. the gyn portion of the rotation is pretty boring- we only have 1-2 cases/day and otherwise sit around and study. which should be good, but i kind of feel like if i'm going to be at the hospital, i should be doing something patient-related. ah, well.

don't forget that tomorrow is el dia de los muertos. i plan to set a few minutes aside to honor my deceased family members' memories.