...at least, I am one for Halloween. The parties started Thursday with a non-costume, Politics cohort gathering. It was my first time visiting Butler apartments (another Princeton-owned property), and I think Miranda and I did a fine job choosing Lawrence. Butler was old military housing (from WWII I think) that Princeton bought for grad students. There were some serious leakage issues from the unending days of rain, though Butler does offer the advantage of allowing pets.
From Butler, most of the people headed over to the grad college for their costume party. I had only heard about this party a few hours earlier and thus did not have a costume prepared. Chicklet and I briefly brainstormed and came up with the idea of dressing as a Princeton undergraduate. I wrote "Abercrombie & Fitch" on a white t-shirt with a sharpie and popped my collar on a button-down shirt to put over the A&F shirt. The lack of lighting at the GC made it hard to see what I was attending as, but the costume worked pretty well after explanation.
For the costume party on Friday, I improved on the design by wearing my DC United cap backwards, and taping the year "2009" to the front with orange and black (Princeton's colors) lettering. This time around, people figured out my idea without a hitch, and it received quite the few laughs. What was even funnier was that a few grad students present had popped their collars. Now, I'm not the most fashionable person (by a long shot), but even I know that this collar position is just a fad.
Also of interest was that I walked into that party Friday without knowing a single person. The evite for the soiree went out to a huge number of people, seemingly randomly, but somewhat focused on engineers. Wanting to get in touch with my prior life (as a programmer), I threw caution to the wind and went. I have a great time, met lots of psych, EE, and geoscience students (as well as a couple of elders from my department). I "worked the room" and stayed three hours. In high school, my Myers-Briggs results were off the scale introvert--I have to believe they would be more balanced now.
Speaking of people, 20 of us went to the DC United game (thanks!). We wore black, ostensibly in support of DC, but it was more appropriate as funeral dress. United was demolished 4-0 by Chicago :(
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