winner

this is clopsie, my cycloptic mini carved pumpkin/trick-or-treat bag. i carved him yesterday and he helped me win the prize for best trick-or-treat bag at work. $20 at regal cinemas! you had to put the candy in his mouth to get it in the bag. isn't he cute? it was a bit of an engineering feat to get his eye to come out the top of him like that, but where there's a will there's a way.

work was pretty funny. there were some pretty hideous costumes, including some very dodgy drag. i won't horrify you with pictures, but i will say men from new zealand don't make very good russian-american women. i was dressed as a tourist, which means i carried a map around sometimes and took lots of pictures. i wanted to be the eurostar train, but i just didn't get it together this weekend. thanks to clopsie i'm still a winner.

strangest of all, i finally saw the homeless man downtown i've heard so much about that has testicular elephantitus. pretty difficult to hide something like that. i know it wasn't a costume because i've heard lots of people talk about it before. i thought they were joking. they weren't. but don't worry, i didn't stare and i didn't take pictures.

that last part probably shouldn't be on my blog and i may delete this post later.