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macabre

To coincide with Friday’s office-sanctioned Halloween celebrations, my department decorated for the holiday. The theme: guillotine horror. A coworker brought his prop guillotine from home, and we set things up to make it look like we’d lopped off his head. Then we mounted printouts of our heads on golf club “pikes.” And, as a final touch, put candy in the basket that held the lopped-off head. (Photos)

If we don’t win the office decorating contest, I hope we at least get a nod for “Most Macabre.”

For the past two years, Rob and I have attended Eric and Caroline’s annual Halloween party, where costumes are mandatory. (This year, Rob went as a pink-slipped office worker (complete with cardboard box of desk sundries) and I went as a 1930s-ish starlet.) (Photos) However, since the party is always held at the beginning of the month, by the time the real Halloween comes around, the whole holiday / costume thing feels very “been there, done that.”

That said, it was still fun to go downstairs today and see all the local schoolkids lined up in costume in Courthouse Plaza to collect candy from local merchants. So much hyperactive, sugar-fueled enthusiasm!