lunar

we're having our office's halloween party tomorrow. i was planning to go as the eurostar, but couldn't come up with an inexpensive costume that would allow me to sit comfortably all day in an office chair. someone told me i should be english for my costume. i think i will. i've got a nice cordouroy hat, black trousers, a lovely cardi and a bad attempt at an accent. it should do nicely i think...as long as i nickname everything. i'll have to study up my british phrase dictionary before i go to bed so i'll have funny things like "take the mickey out of 'em" floating through my mind tomorrow. if i had any english co-workers i wouldn't attempt it, but i don't so its fair game. i don't feel a bit bad about it after all the grief i've been given on the dave gorman forum for being a cliché northwestern american working for starbucks for 3½ years.

saturday begins another week of 24-7 prayer at the DHOP. we had one in september and it was awesome. i work downtown so i'll be there after work most days as well as sunday afternoon. i gave myself a few nights off, but i'm sure i'll end up down there anyway. it's so fun to be there with everyone that shows up. last time we did this there was a tangeble difference in the spiritual atmosphere downtown. i don't expect anything different this time.

the weather here has just turned Novemberie. it was supposed to rain yesterday but it was sunny and clear (though cold) instead. this also made for an amazing sunset and perfect viewing of the full moon and lunar eclipse last night. it was so beautiful. today it was 50º and raining but i wore flip-flops to work because i didn't have any other pink shoes to match my pink shirt. i'm sure i looked fabú with my wool fur-collared peacoat and pink flip-flops. what can i say? i'm a fashion diva.