I really wish some people didn’t take Halloween so seriously. No, not the middle aged women that start to think that they’re witches, or the kids that get way into the ghost thing. It’s the spiders! Just because it’s October, doesn’t give them the right to crawl all over the place. You see, today I was burning tons of CD’s for my mom’s work, and as I was reaching to take one out of the tray, I saw a fairly large spider crawl out of the computer. There are spiders living in my computer? I would really rather be ignorant of that.

While it’s Halloween, I would like to take the opportunity to talk about evil people that try to kill you. Well, maybe they don’t actually want to hurt you, but I always think that they do. Whenever I’m in the car alone, waiting for a parent to get back, or walking down a street that’s, shall we say, less-than-crowded (like the downtown mall on a slow day), I assume that everyone else is trying to kill me (yes, even the 8 year old kids playing fiddle/flute/according). I think it goes back to all of the murder mystery shows I used to watch - it really gets a person paranoid.

Science fair is and evil institution. Don’t get me wrong - I love science, just not science fair. Unlike most people, I was suckered into doing something with conductivity with different salts. Sounds harmless enough, except it involves sending about six different frequencies through the solution, taking down the voltage and ampage, making the solution more concentrated, repeat. Do this about 35 times, enter all of the data into the computer, and do the entire thing three more times! It only took me about three hours to do a fourth of it, but it was so boring. I didn’t even use any science to do it - start with science fair, take away the science, and your left with fair (and I think fairs are some of the most boring things ever invented).

Until after the trick or treaters have robbed us blind,

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