Hullo, Weenies! Part 4

Ok, so today was yet another exciting day at work. They did a potluck for lunch, but since I'm taking antibiotics with a ton of food at lunch these days, I opted for a Subway sub and took the stuff with that. However, I did opt in for the Halloween decorating and trick-or-treating segment of the day.

I decorated my office; that is to say, I put Christmas lights up all over the place, and I made pumpkin pi on the door (like the Foxtrot cartoon Monica forwarded around). I cut pumpkins out of orange paper and numbers out of black paper and stems out of green paper, and while I waited for some processes to run and code to build for the day's class's homework, I made the first 13 digits of pumpkin pi, plus an ellipsis at the end. It is cute. Some coworkers brought their kids in to trick-or-treat, but not nearly enough, so I have like two pounds of freak-ass mini-twizzlers to get rid of - do any of you want some? Some of the kids were really shy, but some weren't so bad. I dressed up in my renfest dress since I didn't want to have to explain my DDR costume.

After work I went to Piper's Pub with zephyr people, as Eli mentioned. I had shepherd's pie. I had too much shepherd's pie. It was sort of interesting going into an irish pub dressed as a medieval bar wench, but that's another story. After dinner we went to Ralph and Lori's and saw lots of pumpkins and played a rousing game of "Zombies!", which I won, much to everyone else's chagrin (especially Mike's, since he like spent half the game just pissing me off). It's not like the game takes much skill - it's basically a combination of Warhammer Quest and House of the Dead - you put out board pieces and put zombies on them and go into random buildings and you get bullets and health and shoot zombies and eventually kill enough zombies to win or escape town. Whee.

The kittens are still very cute. I swear I want a kitten, except that I know damned well I'll be sorry if we get one, because they require a lot of effort and stuff.

I am pondering having a party here on the 20th of November. (If you don't know why that date is significant, you haven't played enough Bemani games :) I can't decide if this would work yet... the thing is, it's a Tuesday, but it's the Tuesday before Thanksgiving weekend starts for most CMU people, and we're sticking around Pittsburgh. I guess I'll ponder it more and ask around or something.

I played another 500 calories of DDR tonight. Man, do my feet hurt.

Voices

So I'm listening to Kosaka Riyu's new single, "True", which is in DDRMAX (aka DDR 6th Mix). I knew she was one of the women in the made-specifically-for-DDR singing group BeForU. The women in this group range ages from 16 to 26. Hearing the song, I figured it was either the 22-year-old or the 26-year-old. Turns out it's the 16-year-old. I think she's got a nicer voice than the rest of them.

For some reason, younger singers just never sound that young to me. It seems like I center anyone "young" sounding at 21 or so, anyone "old" sounding as around 35-40. There's another category for neither old nor young that sort of applies to singers like the Indigo Girls, Jill Sobule, Tanya Donnelly, etc... I guess I'm thinking more of general pop music when I try to picture old vs. young though. I dunno.