I hope everyone had a fine Halloween. I did more for Halloween this year than any other year, I think, and although it was indeed fun, even going to several parties does not equal the fun of ringing strangers' doorbells and demanding they give you candy (an act that would likely get you arrested or at least stared at on any other night). I wish I'd accepted one person's suggestion to go trick or treating. I'm trying to remember why I didn't. Probably just laziness or wanting to go with more people.
But I did have fun with Ali and Laris and Wendy and the rest at Chili's. Getting stares from diners, especially cheerleaders, is certainly priceless. Attending to the dance at the Rhodes BCLC (Bryan Campus Life Center) was also enlightening, because I got to see just how awesomely some people can dance. At the risk of being called a racist, I'm not surprised that these dancers were all black. (it was a party thrown by the campus's black sorority, naturally, there were only three white people there, me being one of them. That might seem odd to you, but remember that I live in Memphis TN, where segregration is alive in spirit if not in the legislative body) They danced with choreography to WHATEVER the DJ played! It was amazing. White people do not do that.
I danced like a brazen idiot, of course, wiggling around and such, and being very blindingly white, but I got a lot of exercise so I don't really care. I dislike the modern style of 'dancing' which to me is just moving your arms and legs a tiny bit in vague time to the musice. I like to jump around to the beat, real mad crazy dancing, dancing like (as the quote goes) no one is watching. One of the many reasons I hated the fraternity bus party I went to--the room was too crowded to do anything but that vague motion kind of dancing, and thus was very boring.
As we left, we talked about the dancing abilities of each racial group, as represented by the four of us--a black guy, an Asian girl, an Indian girl (as in from India), and whitey (me). The conclusions everyone else reached were that Asians are very good at breakdancing, black people are just good at dancing in general, Indians dance modern dances but with a heavy influence of traditional Indian dancing, and white people are only good at classical (and useless, in ther opinion) dances, like the waltz and the tango and other ballroom genres.
To get away from offending every racial group currently reading this journal, I will mention that before going to this dance I saw a nitrogren-frozed pumpkin dropped off of the Rhodes Tower and shatter into many pieces on the ground, which was cool (they also dropped a slice of pizza and a tomato). Besides which I saw several pumpkins die a bright, fiery death, after they were filled with flammatory substances (the only name I remember is magnesium, because it made such a bright light when lit) and set on fire.
