Halloween more? Less?

Today, let's see. I slept 13 hours last night, as I mentioned earlier.

I like ham sandwiches.

I hung around playing DDR in the afternoon. I don't like playing DDR at home. The hardwood floors hurt now, and if I play songs of 7 feet and higher, the house kind of shakes (or at least the entertainment center does). It's worrisome. Not enjoyable. I'm wondering what I'll do with DDR MAX USA when I get it... wonder if I could play in the basement, even with the low ceilings. Oh well. I did take out Dancing Stage Dreams Come True and played it for like an hour though, including the greatest hits songs (未来予想図II is like the WORST SONG EVER - 72 BPM - JESUS). Playing サンキュ and 朝がまた来る and あの夏の花火 and SNOW DANCE and all made me very happy though :) I love Dreams Come True! So at least maybe I will play silly crap like DCT and OHA at home from time to time, even if I'm not really going to work on my true DDR skills here.

After a whole bunch of it I eventually went upstairs, showered, changed, etc. We were going to a Halloween party with friends of seanmcguire and gang. (Of course I believe everyone who was there is on Livejournal too, but I don't know any of their names, so I won't be able to mention them.) In the long run it wasn't an unpleasant way to spend four hours; we ate good chili, and snacks, and talked to some new people, and spent about two hours basically me and Eli talking to Jeliza and Sean and some other guy, which was also fine since I don't see them often enough. Shrug. I felt like I was pretty young for the crowd though (weird, isn't it?) so it's not too strange that I was being shy.

Oh, and I dressed up as Miho from Megatokyo, if anyone cares, although I couldn't find a good way to do the hair. It was odd because lots of people were in SCA outfits - as opposed to Thurs when my Miho outfit would have gone off really well, and the SCA outfit tonight... oh well, I'll get it right one of these years. :) Other than that it wasn't bad though. I'll have to get a wig for the hair if I ever really want to dress up as Miho for an anime con though.

Came home... played more IIDX. Up to like 15 songs on Light 7, and I passed c-r-a-c-k-ER and will NEVER PLAY IT AGAIN IF I CAN HELP IT. I passed my first 4-star on Light 7, though it was only Love Again Tonight. Oh, and I perfect-comboed Mobo Moga on Beginner... so now I have P'ed two songs there.

Weird dreams and sadness

I had this dream that I went back to Northeast Philly to visit my high school, except that I had to wake up early and come in from downtown. I was on the 58 bus, except it looked like the 358 bus in Seattle. Rather than actally stopping at my high school like it's supposed to, it went down Haldeman street and never stopped. So I got off the bus and had to walk like half a mile to a place where I had the choice to walk another 3/4 mile or just wait for another bus. I was tired so I waited for another bus. Had to chase this one down, and I asked, "Do you stop at Bustleton and Verree?" and the bus driver said yeah. So I waited on the bus except it took a weird route around and by the time it hit Bustleton it was already up near Tomlinson. So in my frustration I ran off this bus too... all of the stores on Bustleton had totally changed - what was weirder was I could see the, umm, diffs of the store names. I finally got to my school and went in and tried to get a visitor's pass and at that point I woke up.

On another note, a friend of mine in Pittsburgh died yesterday (well, an ex-coworker, but someone I had a lot of respect for, from Claritech). She had cancer, but last time I saw her, which I think was at Ralph's birthday party exactly 6 months ago, she seemed to be doing fabulously well with her treatments and all. So I'm kind of surprised, and kind of sad... she was only 49. I don't really know what I can do about it from 3000 miles away, but blah. (edit: I don't see any reason not to mention that it was Deirdre Hutchinson, for the benefit of others who might have known her from Claritech or CMU.)