October 31, 2011
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The Daily News
1 Happy Halloween!!!
2 Hope you're all looking forward to one of the best days of the year.
3 Our ghost stories on Friday rocked. Pretty fun stuff.
4 Not too much to report in the haunted area though.
5 One thing DID happen, in front of my morning class.
6 Right while I talked about weird light coincidences, the worklights in the theater came on. Nobody was at either of the two switches.
7 Almost disappointingly, I remembered almost a once that earlier in the morning I saw two District vans in front of the building. They were working on the lights in the choir room. I could only assume their was a connection.
8 I didn't bother chasing that one down.
9 I also had numerous Heidi things, nines, coincidences, and other salty stuff, but nothing really to write home about.
10 Things usually have to happen in threes before I'll even look.
11 The stories really rocked though. I'm pretty sure the students enjoyed the day, even though I haven't much to report.
12 Sometimes I just blow stuff off. I've gotten used to things that I find significant, and other things that seem like pretty mainstream coincidences.
13 The first day is usually just a warm-up.
14 Today is different. Today is Halloween.
15 Today I will tell the Heidi stories.
16 I usually have things a little darker, and a bit more serious.
17 Plus I had an absolutely wonderful weekend with my family.
18 When life is going along nicely, I find that fewer things come to the mix. It's almost as though the real things have occurred during times of a bit more stress.
19 So I do wish I had a bit more to report, but if I've learned anything in this life, it's that no news is quite often good news.
20 I simply haven't a lot of serious issues going on right now, and the vibes over the weekend were nothing short of sensational.
21 Anyway, I look forward to today. It's pretty weird having Halloween on a Monday night. It feels a whole bunch like most of Halloween was carved and sliced over the weekend.
22 And that's fine. It's just that a lot of the stuff feels a bit forced when Halloween comes AFTER the weekend. It's a bit more fun when it is either on the weekend or the Friday before.
23 And the thing about it is that once the weekend is over, I noticed that the supermarkets were aleady disappearing the sale of pumpkins.
24 Not a big deal, but still. There's always the little kid in you that never thinks about corporate America. They just love any excuse for a party, and taking pumpkins out of the stores the day before Halloween seems almost cruel and greedy.
25 But I ain't trippin'. They have to begin putting up the Thanksgiving stuff, and they already have Christmas stuff up. But as I said, I ain't trippin'.
26 Every now and again I say that to my students.
27 They get completely grossed out, of course. Fortunately I can sort of pull it off as long as my tongue is planted firmly in my cheek.
28 Anyway, it does feel like they are striking the set before the show this year, and it takes a bit out of it.
29 I don't care, really. The weekend sort of interrupted the flow of the entire Halloween thing, but I'm still tanned, rested, and ready.
30 So I guess I'll just make this a Monday light. I slept early last night, and so I would like a bit more rest before I have to go before the classes as the Heidi scribe.
31 It's always fun; it often brings weirdness, and it also gets genuinely scary while I tell the stories, because whenever I add them all up, things get strange; room temperatures fall, and things get slightly frosty.
32 So wish me luck.
33 I'll keep you all posted.
34 See you again.
35 More to come.
36 Peace.
~H~
DN Readers are invited to come and participate.
What: Heidi stories.
When: Today (Halloween yo!) 8:15 a.m., 9:15 a.m., 10:15a.m., 11:30a.m., 2:00 p.m..
Where: EVHS Theater. 3300 Quimby Road, San Jose, CA 95148
