In this town we call home / Ev'ry one hail to the pumpkin song

Between job applications, research-assisting on a hellishly complex government grant application, and thesis writing, it's been a tough couple of weeks for me. So I'm really glad that my weekends have been full of a better kind of horror. You know, the fun kind.

Last weekend, I got a sneak peek at Cree playwright Tomson Highway's upcoming musical "The (Post) Mistress," featuring such wonderful cabaret-style numbers as "I Shot Him in the Head." Then, across town for a panel discussion/exhibit on Victorian image technologies and spirit photography, complete with working zoetrope and pictures of ectoplasm. Those Victorians really knew how to hold a seance.

This weekend is Central Canada Comic Con, where I'll have a chance to cosplay as Arrietty again, and a Halloween party which I will attend as a "geisha." Ok, actually I'll just wear the yukata I got for the O-bon festival I didn't have a chance to attend last summer. Since summertime is ghost-story time in Japan, in a way it works for Halloween. At any rate, dressing up! Eating candy! Buying comics! What can go wrong?

What indeed...? *cue eerie music*

Happy haunting, everyone!