worthy and beautiful and good

[aamcnamara]

35.5 / 75

Tada. (I snuck away once this week, on Wednesday, to write. The rest is this morning.)

This novel redraft is quite definitely not getting done by the end of October. Oh well.

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Last night was the geek dance. It costs a dollar if you go in costume. There are six people in our moving group, and once when my roommate and I were not doing homework we brainstormed ideas that we could all do. The best idea that we had was quarks--up, down, top, bottom, charm, and strange.

Somehow, between then and now, we didn't come up with any idea we liked any better, and somehow we put it together. A trip to Amherst was involved, and a sign-making and makeup-putting-on (on faces, on arms, on... hair...) frenzy happened last night before the dance started.

And so I dressed up last night as Jonathan Strange, Quark, and went out to dance.

(My tuxedo and a cravat were involved, as was spray-on orange hair dye that didn't work very well. Thus, orange Halloween facepaint was put in my hair to emphasize the color. Any flaw in my dress--one side of my cravat was fraying, there was a tear on my trouser leg, my cravat may not have been very well-tied, my hair stood mostly straight up--could be explained away as me being Strange near the end of the book, with the pineapples and candle-flames and all.)

Sadly, a number of people had to have the costumes explained to them. "QUARKS!" we yelled in their ears over the music. "We're SUBATOMIC PARTICLES!"

But we did get selected to participate in the costume contest. Even though we didn't win, we made it into the second round, so we were pretty pleased with ourselves.

Mostly, I am just entertained and amused that we actually did it. Like I said to one member of the group a couple of days before, it isn't like we'll likely have a six-person moving group next year or the year after that, so this was our chance. And we took it.

(Today I am wearing my "QUARK" sign pinned to the front of my shirt. Because I can.)

Comments

[txanne.livejournal.com]

I heart you and your five friends.

[aamcnamara.livejournal.com]

My friends are pretty awesome. I am glad to know them.

[aliseadae]

You win.

[aamcnamara.livejournal.com]

You know what, we kind of do.

[mlt23.livejournal.com]

That's a brilliant idea and it makes me happy!

Johnathan Strange = Strange :)