Don't Be A Halloweenie

I'm going to go ahead and blame the latest drought of writings on the cold weather of last week. Oftentimes, by the time I got home and put on a few extra layers of clothes while futzing around the apartment, I didn't feel like doing much else.

That being said, I just got back from another weekend in Blacksburg, where I was able to join in the Wesley Halloween festivities, as well as help host and attend Gina and Katie's apartment-warming shindig. On top of that, there was another installment of the Hour That Doesn't Count, which has been captured on both digital video and stills. I'll give a full writeup of all the festivities next time.

For those of you who watched the VT/Boston College game Thursday night, you might have noticed that Cedric Humes is playing again after breaking his arm only about three weeks ago. If you paid attention during the ESPN broadcast, you already heard about this, but the Materials Science & Engineering department at Tech helped design a mind-boggling bracing system made out of state-of-the-art composites. This brace is allowing Humes to play football while his bone heals, much as was the case following Xavier Adibi's accident last year. Only at a school like Tech can football and engineering form such a graceful synergy. I love it!

It already feels like Halloween is over, but of course, it's just beginning. Josh and I are wondering if we're going to get any trick-or-treaters, but so far, the biggest Halloween trick that's been played on us has been the Vienna Halloween Parade, which successfully blocked all the streets we needed to take to navigate through the town on our way back from dinner Wednesday night. That'll teach us! The parade was on public access TV tonight, too - taunting us with its old cars, fire trucks, and happy people getting where they need to be going, free of police blockades.