Happy November

Halloween was a huge deal here, at least bigger than I expected. I ended up going to 2 Halloween parties.. the first being at a mausoleum (grave site) of the Stanford family.. it was wild!! I heard a few thousand Stanford students showed up. A lot of amazing creative costumes!! One group went as dominos, with Asian countries painted on the back of their outfits.. At first I didn't get it but they explained to me that they were "The Domino Effect". Another guy went as a christmas tree, wrapped in garland and lights. The only problem was, he had to stand next to an electrical outlet all night. I also saw snakes on a plane - a guy with a zillion rubber snakes plastered to a board with x, y coordinates on it (get it, plane). There was also the imaginary man, he wore a shirt painted with the negative root of square one. His girlfriend went as infinity. There were tons of sexy, risky, pornstar costumes too.. tons of fun. I was going to go to Castro in SF (the craziest, wildest Halloween party of all) but in retrospect I'm glad I didn't since 10 people were shot and many more stabbed.

It's going to be a great next 5 days :) My boss is out of town!! Everyone at work is estatic.. seriously, I've never met someone who's work was SO much of their life. It's almost sad. But the tone at work is now sooooooooooo much more relaxed. People are ACTUALLY smiling! I could really write a GOOD book based on this work experience.. I have heard some very crazy things and seen some even crazier stuff. I had to go to a big meeting thing today with the boss of the company to plan next year with the other directors.. It was a little frustrating but I probably shouldn't get into it on the internet.

Yesterday it rained a bit, the first REAL rain in at least 6 months. It's strange watching when the sun goes away how depressed people quickly get (I guess the time change doesn't help either). But the drivers are the funniest to watch - it's like when it snowed back home. Everyone forgets how to drive again and there were a zillion accidents.

Just one picture of some friends on our way to the Mausoleum party:
Anders, Me, Ben, Marius, and Paul (I was a fairy, although you can't see my wings)