Halloween costume ideas, anyone?

[levertovfan]

Anyone have any ideas for a Halloween costume for me? The last Halloween costume I had that I really liked was Moosey Moose, but I'm guessing that the sorts of Halloween costumes that go over well in the world of various parties I'm like to be attending tend more towards innovative political statements or else sexy/revealing rather than little kid cute. And I'm not going with sexy/revealing because (1) not how I usually want to present myself to the world and (2) being on Washington public transit in sexy/revealing clothing strikes me as a bad idea. It was one thing for Rocky Horror on the Carleton campus among people who knew me; another in the outside world. Anyone got any innovative world-of-politics puns that could be made into a costume?

In recollection, I liked being Moosey Moose. Yay for costumes with paper mache antlers and matching moose stuffed animals.

In other news, nothing major, but it was a frustrating day at work. My officemate has been very frustrated with many things within the organization all week. She's very vocal about her frustrations and she's reaching a limit. Added to that, there's a VISTA in the office who has proved a very disruptive force within the office and even when we present to partners. She makes work difficult for her officemates, is overly confrontational, complains a lot without having the brainpower to figure out solutions to those problems, etc. At least two thirds of the office feel pretty strongly her boss should fire her (not quite "fire" because she's a VISTA, but the equivelent). Why her boss continues to keep her on is a mystery. At the end of the day, a few of us had a little rap session and talked about Myers-Briggs and leadership issues within the organization and what VISTAs go through over the course of their year. The rap session made it slightly better. Ah, well, my VISTA year runs out pretty soon anyway. I have to start search for a job pretty soon. Yuck.

Comments

[duckie.livejournal.com]

you could be trillian, especially if you can't think of anything else, just tell anyone who asks that you happened to hitch a ride with the president of the galaxy and he hasn't given you a chance to stop off at the shopping mall in the middle of the universe yet, so you've still got your earth clothes. ;)

[levertovfan.livejournal.com]

brilliant! (if not trilliant...)

[jissa.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm. I vote for you going as a ravenclaw! w00t for ravenclaws!!

oh oh! What if you went as a book? There's this amazingly scary kids book called "Help! Mom! There are liberals under my bed!" You could put the front and back covers as your costume . . . OK, maybe not . . .

What about just doing something silly and history-y? I can't quite think of anything good right now though . . .

You could get one of those scary dick cheney or george bush heads and then dress up as the Emperor. Darth Vader, with his "Fear will keep the local systems in line" quote, might be more appropriate, but it would be harder to show the political side. Plus the Emperor would be easier to be.


OK, I'm running out of ideas. I'm afraid that I'm just dressing up as Lauren for this Halloween . . .

[levertovfan.livejournal.com]

I like your ideas. I remember reading an excerpt from "Help! Mom!.." in Harper's. Although, given the title and conservative versus liberal attitudes towards sexuality, I really suspect it ought to be "Help! Mom! The religious right is under my bed!" But then we could squish them, squish them like the little bedbugs they are while bouncing on the bed.


You're dressing up as Lauren? I trust she is dressing up as you...

[jissa.livejournal.com]

yesss, it is a fiendish plan that we yoinked from scot and paul developed for cheap, amusing costumes