The Crazy Cat Lady Gives Away Free Candy

I don't especially like Halloween. It lost most of the appeal when I stopped being a trick-or-treater and became a trick-or-treatee. I haven't been home for the festivities or the last few years, but since it's a Monday this year, there's no escaping it. I got a big bag of candy and put a few decorations on my lawn, because I also don't want to find myself trying to figure out how to get egg off vinyl siding come Tuesday morning.




I don't really do costumes, either, though I did wear my kickboxing gear to school today as what has to be the laziest costume ever. The students dug getting to see my gloves, though, and they speculated once again about who would win if I got into a cage match with NayNay. We're planning a major YouTube event if we ever get good enough to actually fight real people.

And now there's a family with toddlers working their way up my street. I'll have to tell them how cute they are, even though I don't understand toddlers in any meaningful sense. The Idiots (TM) are scared of little kids, so I expect to be fishing Laurel out from under the bed later.

Please don't let them take me....

I resist your cultural stereotypes. 

Minerva resents people calling her a "Halloween Cat" just because she's black. This will somehow become my fault, and she will add it to her growing list of grievances against me, leveraging it all for an extra helping of gooshyfood.

So right now I'm hiding in my office and wishing the dojo were open for classes tonight. A good round on the heavy bag would do wonders to stave off the nightmares. But tomorrow a good round on the heavy bag might do wonders to stave off the effects of leftover candy.