it's halloween, and everyone looks awful. some people, though, are genuinely just out to scare people. theres someone on the ground floor sporadically leaning out of her window and screaming at passers by, and two guys just, essentially, attacked me (in a playful way though, like they do with rape at public schools). i've never been interested in the tacky dressing up (and then just going out dancing as usual) side of halloween, but this is the kind of halloween activity that i appove of. i really like the idea of a festival that celebrates fear. not terrible, life-destroying fear, but playing on the small, irrational fears that people have-the dark, loud noises, surprises. it's something worth doing at least once a year.