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trinityvixenHalloween is still Halloween until like I say it's over and done with. I got up soooo late today, it was great. Said a pretty quick goodbye to Alicyn (who's out now for a week and a half on vacation, which reminds me, I need to book hostels...), and went to go buy a sword for my costume. I just settled on the least offensive non-katana toy sword at the Big W (basicalll Walmart in all the ways that Hungry Jacks is basically Burger King) and used black masking tape on the grip (which held well) before going up to the Uni for the FAS Sugar Ball. I got there early to help blow up balloons and whatnot.
So, yeah, most people had to have the costume explained to them (which I did, already expecting I would have to). Most people in FAS aren't really movie geeks. Darren made a comment that it was unfair as I got to see it earlier in America--I enjoyed telling him I'd only seen Kill Bill here, cut the wind from his sales. Some costume highlights:
Hespa = giant spider (if i didn't like her lots, i'd be upset about that choice)
Ashley = cheerleader (he was eerily good--had fake pigtails, pompoms, those white tennis shoes, the works)
??? = Grumpy Bear (from Care Bears! I forget her name, but she's the owner of two really adorable rats, which she's brought to other meetings)
Adrian = The Black Knight (who always triumphs!)
Darren = random druid (in his blue cape with a silver bamboo staff--several drunken Irishmen apparently screamed "Holy Shit! It's Darth Vader!" at him)
Kate = dominatrix (two whips, two of them, and they were the highlight of the time)
Daniel = character from his own story (he stole my sword for a while, I took it back ^.^)
Ben = a pirate (not Jack Sparrow, but what can you do? Did have a cool eyepatch, was pretty cute)
Justin = full bunny suit and a full tiger suit
Chris = the duck man (hey, why's there a duck on your head? "what duck?"---Terry Pratchett thing, people!)
Hugh = his wardrobe (he pulled random things from it)
girl+boyfriend = Alice and the White Rabbit
Nicolai = JACK SKELLINGTON (it didn't matter that his costume wasn't great, it was the perfect thing for the host!)
Man, they don't call it sugar ball for no reason. Sooooo much candy, even my teeth hurt. Cookies, chips, soda, it's all good. FAS is strictly no alcohol, but the sugar highs can be just as scary. Not to mention the weapons running around the place. Adrian's weapon as the Black Knight was basically a halbeard or pike, a thickened piece of wood that was shaped threateningly. Darren had his bo staff, I had a sword, Ben had a pirate sword, and Kate had her whips--which were quite dangerous. Two guys actually used the whips to break a few of the balloons, which was really cool, actually. Balloons are so much fun--we played balloon volleyball with our various weapons, the most dangerous of which was David's shoe (David was the only one to pop a balloon while playing, with his booted toe as opposed to us poking them with weapons--David was also looking really cute, too, with black hair, black leather jacket--Kate said with sunglasses and a buttoned shirt he'd have been Neo, and she's not tooooooo far off heh heh).
Games were loads of fun, but fairly standard, too, you know? So, we had a contest for best costume, and it was nice Hugh voted for mine, but I wasn't nearly expecting to win, not with the more geek-centric and honestly better craftsmanship out there. However, I did win the limbo. I started off in my heels, my new boots, and only failed when we got down to me and two guys. They both fell the run I did, so they called me to do it again not in my heels, and I won! Heee! I shared the Toblerones with everyone. This was after I was helping 'judge' a SLASH-OFF contest. That's right, you purists at Columbia (Liz M, I'm talking to you), there are people who both read and write it out here with pride. Ben gave them random pairings from the fandoms of their choice (I was nearly broken as three of them were as follows: Ron/Goyle, Oz/Giles, and UGH, Cringer/Orko--that's right, the cowardly tiger and wizard from He-Man), and he threw in challenges. I hope they get posted, I'll try to link people to them. Kate's was funny because it was unintentionally suggestive and full of puns and double-entendres.
There was a bake-off, too, a 'make your own drink out of random sugary substances' contest, and just general fun had all around. There was a heated discussion over the advantage of a staff over a sword (Ashley said staff wins over sword every time, so long as weapons' quality is about equal, as are opponents with them), but bonking balloons around with weapons and pretending to be able to use them is so much more fun than arguing. Also, whipping is lots of fun. I got to shock the Aussies when I said I'd seen a display of whips used erotically at my home uni (Sure, it was for the Fed Bash, but that's at Columbia, neh?), and we all promptly begged to be whipped till red. All this and out of the building by 11:00!
From there, it was mad running around games. We played one where we had balloons on our backs and were trying to protect them from others grabbing--last one with one unpopped won. Adrian and Ashley were sorta standing aside quietly and mostly went unnoticed till the end. Sneaky. I got mad props again for the running around in my shoes. Darren gave me one of his balloons once, but Neil kept coming for me and just bear hugging me. I knocked his glasses loose at one point in defense only to be horrified and look down to see broken glass on the ground. I nearly cried, but it turned out to be just loose broken glass (and, as soon as he had his glasses back, he popped my balloon, bugger). I did tackle him back, which was loads of fun. After that it was a game called "Octopus" where you had one person call "Octopus" and people had to run by him/her. If you were tagged you stopped on spot and tried to tag people on the next run. I did pretty well for running in those boots, though Emma kept nearly nabbing my hair (I'd lost the wig by then, too itchy).
I opted out of a second game on account of foot trouble and walking Kate to find a taxi. It took us about three calls from Unilodge, but eventually we flagged one down (Carrie can tell you, the cabs are usually everywhere, following you to see if you want to hire them, but tonight no doing). I ran into the Mouth and Olga again waiting for Kate's taxi, and the Mouth shouted "NOT AGAIN!" and talked about getting pissed at the party she'd gone to last night. I assured them I was just waiting for the taxi and hadn't had a period to change just yet. Off Kate went, and the night could best be called complete.
This journal entry title is about basically my regret. I really wish I could stay. I know, I know, people who listened to me whining earlier on in the semester told me this would happen, but I didn't believe it. I've just gotten to be pretty good friends with people here, and the last few weeks with FAS have been fantastic (especially the more I catch up on Aussie stuffs and, of course, Terry Pratchett). I'm glad to be having so much fun now, fitting in really well at karate, with people here, in classes and clubs. I just wish it had gotten started sooner. It will be my sincere regret not to have gotten together with people sooner. I'm gonna miss people at Seido Richmond, at Uni Melb, at FAS. I'm gonna have to transfer my FAS mailing list subscription to my other e-mail account so I can keep current and what not.
Basically, yeah, I just have people now, and I'll miss them and wish I could have gotten to know them earlier. You folks know who you are. You're all super-cool people, btw! I dunno what to do about that. Carrie was thinking grad school in New Zealand. I'm not sure I'm ready to do that, but I could see maybe working over here for a while after I've settled on a career (provided I could find a job). Definitely, though, I'm throwing a party for going away. I'll e-mail the FAS people. I'm just going to see what people think when we go see The Matrix Revolutions next Friday. I could do it in that week before Dana gets in. I'll probably have to forgo going to Tassy because of finances as is, so I might as well use the time to shop for people's souvenirs and presents and get my ducks in a row. Quack.
What's the word from me Australian buds? Paaaarteeee? Where? I could try to throw it in the lobby of my building or we could go out to a restaurant or something. Suggestions would be helpful because I have limited resources in terms of a party space, but plenty of will to have good snacks and a good time. Could rent videos to play in the corner, music to play on my computer, etc, or I could try seeing about scaring people out of the lobby early enough and then we'd have pool, air hockey, and a big couch!
Snicker. And Siiiiiiiiigh. I'm gonna miss this place.
So, yeah, most people had to have the costume explained to them (which I did, already expecting I would have to). Most people in FAS aren't really movie geeks. Darren made a comment that it was unfair as I got to see it earlier in America--I enjoyed telling him I'd only seen Kill Bill here, cut the wind from his sales. Some costume highlights:
Hespa = giant spider (if i didn't like her lots, i'd be upset about that choice)
Ashley = cheerleader (he was eerily good--had fake pigtails, pompoms, those white tennis shoes, the works)
??? = Grumpy Bear (from Care Bears! I forget her name, but she's the owner of two really adorable rats, which she's brought to other meetings)
Adrian = The Black Knight (who always triumphs!)
Darren = random druid (in his blue cape with a silver bamboo staff--several drunken Irishmen apparently screamed "Holy Shit! It's Darth Vader!" at him)
Kate = dominatrix (two whips, two of them, and they were the highlight of the time)
Daniel = character from his own story (he stole my sword for a while, I took it back ^.^)
Ben = a pirate (not Jack Sparrow, but what can you do? Did have a cool eyepatch, was pretty cute)
Justin = full bunny suit and a full tiger suit
Chris = the duck man (hey, why's there a duck on your head? "what duck?"---Terry Pratchett thing, people!)
Hugh = his wardrobe (he pulled random things from it)
girl+boyfriend = Alice and the White Rabbit
Nicolai = JACK SKELLINGTON (it didn't matter that his costume wasn't great, it was the perfect thing for the host!)
Man, they don't call it sugar ball for no reason. Sooooo much candy, even my teeth hurt. Cookies, chips, soda, it's all good. FAS is strictly no alcohol, but the sugar highs can be just as scary. Not to mention the weapons running around the place. Adrian's weapon as the Black Knight was basically a halbeard or pike, a thickened piece of wood that was shaped threateningly. Darren had his bo staff, I had a sword, Ben had a pirate sword, and Kate had her whips--which were quite dangerous. Two guys actually used the whips to break a few of the balloons, which was really cool, actually. Balloons are so much fun--we played balloon volleyball with our various weapons, the most dangerous of which was David's shoe (David was the only one to pop a balloon while playing, with his booted toe as opposed to us poking them with weapons--David was also looking really cute, too, with black hair, black leather jacket--Kate said with sunglasses and a buttoned shirt he'd have been Neo, and she's not tooooooo far off heh heh).
Games were loads of fun, but fairly standard, too, you know? So, we had a contest for best costume, and it was nice Hugh voted for mine, but I wasn't nearly expecting to win, not with the more geek-centric and honestly better craftsmanship out there. However, I did win the limbo. I started off in my heels, my new boots, and only failed when we got down to me and two guys. They both fell the run I did, so they called me to do it again not in my heels, and I won! Heee! I shared the Toblerones with everyone. This was after I was helping 'judge' a SLASH-OFF contest. That's right, you purists at Columbia (Liz M, I'm talking to you), there are people who both read and write it out here with pride. Ben gave them random pairings from the fandoms of their choice (I was nearly broken as three of them were as follows: Ron/Goyle, Oz/Giles, and UGH, Cringer/Orko--that's right, the cowardly tiger and wizard from He-Man), and he threw in challenges. I hope they get posted, I'll try to link people to them. Kate's was funny because it was unintentionally suggestive and full of puns and double-entendres.
There was a bake-off, too, a 'make your own drink out of random sugary substances' contest, and just general fun had all around. There was a heated discussion over the advantage of a staff over a sword (Ashley said staff wins over sword every time, so long as weapons' quality is about equal, as are opponents with them), but bonking balloons around with weapons and pretending to be able to use them is so much more fun than arguing. Also, whipping is lots of fun. I got to shock the Aussies when I said I'd seen a display of whips used erotically at my home uni (Sure, it was for the Fed Bash, but that's at Columbia, neh?), and we all promptly begged to be whipped till red. All this and out of the building by 11:00!
From there, it was mad running around games. We played one where we had balloons on our backs and were trying to protect them from others grabbing--last one with one unpopped won. Adrian and Ashley were sorta standing aside quietly and mostly went unnoticed till the end. Sneaky. I got mad props again for the running around in my shoes. Darren gave me one of his balloons once, but Neil kept coming for me and just bear hugging me. I knocked his glasses loose at one point in defense only to be horrified and look down to see broken glass on the ground. I nearly cried, but it turned out to be just loose broken glass (and, as soon as he had his glasses back, he popped my balloon, bugger). I did tackle him back, which was loads of fun. After that it was a game called "Octopus" where you had one person call "Octopus" and people had to run by him/her. If you were tagged you stopped on spot and tried to tag people on the next run. I did pretty well for running in those boots, though Emma kept nearly nabbing my hair (I'd lost the wig by then, too itchy).
I opted out of a second game on account of foot trouble and walking Kate to find a taxi. It took us about three calls from Unilodge, but eventually we flagged one down (Carrie can tell you, the cabs are usually everywhere, following you to see if you want to hire them, but tonight no doing). I ran into the Mouth and Olga again waiting for Kate's taxi, and the Mouth shouted "NOT AGAIN!" and talked about getting pissed at the party she'd gone to last night. I assured them I was just waiting for the taxi and hadn't had a period to change just yet. Off Kate went, and the night could best be called complete.
This journal entry title is about basically my regret. I really wish I could stay. I know, I know, people who listened to me whining earlier on in the semester told me this would happen, but I didn't believe it. I've just gotten to be pretty good friends with people here, and the last few weeks with FAS have been fantastic (especially the more I catch up on Aussie stuffs and, of course, Terry Pratchett). I'm glad to be having so much fun now, fitting in really well at karate, with people here, in classes and clubs. I just wish it had gotten started sooner. It will be my sincere regret not to have gotten together with people sooner. I'm gonna miss people at Seido Richmond, at Uni Melb, at FAS. I'm gonna have to transfer my FAS mailing list subscription to my other e-mail account so I can keep current and what not.
Basically, yeah, I just have people now, and I'll miss them and wish I could have gotten to know them earlier. You folks know who you are. You're all super-cool people, btw! I dunno what to do about that. Carrie was thinking grad school in New Zealand. I'm not sure I'm ready to do that, but I could see maybe working over here for a while after I've settled on a career (provided I could find a job). Definitely, though, I'm throwing a party for going away. I'll e-mail the FAS people. I'm just going to see what people think when we go see The Matrix Revolutions next Friday. I could do it in that week before Dana gets in. I'll probably have to forgo going to Tassy because of finances as is, so I might as well use the time to shop for people's souvenirs and presents and get my ducks in a row. Quack.
What's the word from me Australian buds? Paaaarteeee? Where? I could try to throw it in the lobby of my building or we could go out to a restaurant or something. Suggestions would be helpful because I have limited resources in terms of a party space, but plenty of will to have good snacks and a good time. Could rent videos to play in the corner, music to play on my computer, etc, or I could try seeing about scaring people out of the lobby early enough and then we'd have pool, air hockey, and a big couch!
Snicker. And Siiiiiiiiigh. I'm gonna miss this place.
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Date: 2003-11-02 03:18 am (UTC)The slash-off sounded hilarious. I think I would have as much fun groaning or laughing uncontrollably at the awful pairings as had they been ones that I could see working :D