What are people doing for Halloween?

Fall colors road trip through the Ozarks to the Ouachitas.

I feel like I've sent the same email over and over. To top it off, we've just switched marketing companies and the email sends are completely fucked because they both think they're doing the send for a certain date, oh and we're running 2 sites so...yeah.

DJ, do we work in the same office?

I wish. Then we could at least go to lunch and bitch about it.

Dracula: a novel of hot Victorian sluts

In honor of Halloween, cartoonist Kate Beaton read Dracula and made a series of comics about the classic vampire novel. In a series of strips gets at the book's true face of horror: sexually-liberated women.

Beaton is primarily known for her historical comics, but lately she's turned her attention toward classic literature. And this week, she decided to read Dracula, which inspired this tweet:

I'm reading Dracula, it's a book about sluts. Sluts are pretty exciting and sexy but you don't want them in the house, as they ruin society.

eta: More comics here: [link]

eta²: Notes from the artist:

I love it when Halloween comes around and I get to make comics for it! Here we have Bram Stoker's Dracula, a book written to tell ladies that if you're not a submissive waif, society goes to hell and ungodly monsters are going to turn you into child killing horrors and someone is going to drive a bowie knife through your heart/cut off your head/etc. As you deserve! Thanks Bram! I wrote it down so as to remember it.

But don't get me wrong, I prefer my vampires to be moustachioed 1890s types more than the sexy kind you see nowadays. Maybe Carmilla was sexy, I forget. Anyway.

Aww, baby gorilla! Baby gorilla face! Baby gorilla hands! Proud nurturing protective gorilla babymama!

I KNOW!

I don't have Halloween plans, but tomorrow I'm going to learn how to worm compost, which is SPOOOOKY.

I am so over everything right now, and I can't bring myself to focus on the big task I have to have done on Monday, so now I'm just planning to work over the weekend, which is a huge bummer.

I have a group of MOMS Club kids and moms coming over for a Halloween party in an hour. I'm not even close to ready.

Tomorrow is a bigger Halloween party for the kids in Owen & Liv's classes.

Then Trick or Treating on Sunday.

Cute, GC!

Have fun in Vancouver, ita!

Those who are having cruddy workdays, I hope they go better soon.

Feel a little bit otherworldly from lack of sleep but otherwise doing okay. I think my father was shocked to see me up at this hour. Hopefully I can make it stick.

I have to walk to the middle school construction site again to see if I can talk to the foreman. I get all paranoid about stuff like this. My dad suggested talking to them to see if we can get some of the extra soil for the raised beds. I so don't want to do it. It was hard enough to force myself to do it once. He wasn't there and I left a note. He didn't answer. Now I gotta force myself again. The only reason I'm forcing myself is because buying this much potting soil would bankrupt me.

Oh yeah, Have fun, ita!!!