Crazie Halloween

As most of us have sadly realized, Halloween falls on a Monday this year. This wouldn’t really be a problem at all actually, except it’s the Monday right after Parents’ and Family Weekend. So with no time over the weekend to do the cute, innocent things we do in college like go trick-or-treating, many of us are trying to squeeze in some fun before the weekend arrives. Not that hanging out with the hardworking individuals who raised you isn’t fun…

Anyways, if you’re in the same boat as me, the realization that we only have a few hours left to find a costume is probably a little more stressful than it should be. Putting my excellent Duke education to use, I did what any good researcher does and turned to Google. My first query of “weird halloween costumes” immediately got me results from WTF Costumes and Halloween Costume Ideas: 50 Unique And Weird Ideas.

“10. Twister Game: Buy a Twister game," the second website said. "Staple ribbon to two corners of the spinner and tie the ribbon under your chin so the spinner becomes a 'hat.' Cut a hole in the center of the Twister mat and wear it like a poncho. All night long you can tell people to 'put left hand on red' and so on.”

Mildly sexual. Mildly inappropriate. Sounds like a winner. But then again, I guess another question I should ask is, is it sexual enough? Even though “weird” costumes were the first thing I looked up, who wants too look weird on this one day where “everyone has an excuse to be slutty?”

I’m not going to start on intellectualizing the Halloween experience here, but for those students who don’t have parents visiting, this weekend won’t be so much about my parents embarrassing me as it will be about you potentially embarrassing me in front of my parents.

Maybe my point is just that making Parents’ and Family Weekend coincide with Halloween weekend was a terrible idea. In any case, I hope everyone has fun however they’re celebrating or not celebrating (#occupyperkins?)!