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Published: November 2nd 2009
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So it’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve last posted because school has been eating up my life and nobody wants to hear about that so I’m just going to move onto the Halloween Party that Erin and I threw this weekend. Friday night we began the prep by going to a Lidl, which is a cheapo supermarket chain, where we go lots of food and drinks for insanely cheap. It’s quite ghetto with the vegetable isle next to an automotive/cleaner isle, so that was a whole separate experience all in itself. Then Saturday was literally non-stop cooking, decorating, and pumpkin carving. Erin never carved a pumpkin before, and to think of it I don’t think I ever had either. I had painted pumpkins with Vicki when we were little, but never carved one--so we both had a blast spooning out their guts and animating them with faces and candles.
We then got into costume: Erin went as hottie Pamela Anderson from Baywatch and I went as the iPod Silhouette dancer from all the ads. I was so excited to meet more of Erin’s friends and colleagues, but little did I realize that I would be completely obscuring my
identity by wearing all black and covering up my face in black face paint. What a horrible life choice when I was about to meet so many new people who didn’t know what I regularly looked like! Even the people who did know what I looked like couldn’t recognize me! I had never dressed up as something scary for Halloween and had no intention of doing so this year, but people were straight up scared of me. When I finished putting on my costume and couldn’t recognize myself in the mirror, I realized it was going to be an interesting night. On the hand, I figured I would at least see who would get to like me by my personality…Little did I know that people would be so freaked out that they partially ignored me in the beginning of the night. I literally felt like I was stripped of my identity.
I was a bit hurt and upset by people’s initial reactions, which also took away some of my confidence, but I got into character and danced my bum off. I also took off my shades so people could see my eyes and I reeled people in with my
dazzlingly white smile, which contrasted nicely with my black face. I always knew that smiling was essential when meeting new people, but in my case it was the key to simply prove that I was human...So people did warm up to me and I really forced myself to approach them if they didn’t feel comfortable speaking to me first, but I found that showing my eyes and smiling were key. It seriously proved how important physical appearances are to people’s perceptions in social situations because you are always being judged.
Nonetheless I had an amazing time and was able to appreciate some great company despite the fact that they didn’t even know who they were talking to—just imagine having a conversation with a talking black blob—that was me. I’d say it was a pretty successful social experiment though because I exchanged some numbers and will hopefully go rock climbing with some new friends soon. However, I was definitely relieved to see my face at the end of the night when I took my wig off and washed the black off my face. I almost felt a little lost and uncomfortable until I was able to see my physical characteristics
and recognize myself. Talk about an identity crisis!
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Lex
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darling i think your costume was fucking fantastic!!! and people can just suck it cuz you were obviously the ipod person... duh! too bad you didn't have two other ipod people by your side to pump it up, and we did miss you and your fine ness at espen's! i love you darling, no matter what color you are!!!!! LOVEEEEEE