No classes on Tuesdays, which gives me free rein to go wherever I like whenever I please, for most of the day.
9:30 AM: Wake up. Eat yogurt and drink caffeine in the form of Dr. Pepper for breakfast. Pin hair to back of head, don costume.
10:00 AM: Go to appointment with learning aide person. Plan for further work on art class presentation. Receive compliments on disconcerting costume that utterly hides my identity.
Pass Mario and Luigi while walking by the library. Beautiful.
11:00 AM: Second appointment, this time with counselor person. Greet with "Penny for the guy." Scare the crap out of her.
Wander around campus. Get mistaken once for the Phantom of the Opera and once for Zorro. Uneducated heathens.
Run into Josh, Mo, Adam, and Keen, and later Liz. Adam is Thor, Liz is Lady Luck with a perentile die wedged in her cleavage, Liz is an Orc Shaman from WoW, Keen is Loki, and Josh is Halloween Jesus. We go to lunch, and one of the cafeteria ladies begs to see my face. I reply with the quote about ideas being bulletproof. After finding a table, I reluctantly doff the mask temporarily to allow myself to eat. Nobody at any other table seems to notice. Good. Mask returns to its facially-obscuring position as I leave the cafeteria. More heads turn. I tip my hat to the girl who looks like Natalie Portman.
1:55 PM: I head off to my appointment at the career center an hour early due to a miscommunication. A group of freshman outside Wright Hall compliment my costume and ask me who I am (behind the mask). By way of a response, I give them the famous Alliteration Speech. They applaud and give me candy. Score.
2:55 PM: I head to my career appointment for real. The career center is godscursed hot, and it definitely doesn't help that I'm wearing a full-length wool cloak and four layers of stuff on my head (including my own hair), with next to no ventilation because of that mask. I stick it out, fan myself with my hat (taking the layer count down to three), and never show my face.
5:15 PM: I drop in on the suite belonging to Josh, Mo, Adam, and Liz. Liz has changed to her Tauren character; we all go to dinner. A couple of girls in the cafeteria go squeefangirl and want pictures with me. I pose with them.
9:00 PM: The six of us head off to the Halloween Drag Ball. We hang around a bit, then go upstairs to play Karaoke Revolution. Later I return to the ball and run into Dan (Star Wars GM, wearing gold shorts); he tells me my costume is amazing and at my response jumps back in astonishment when he recognizes my voice. He then repeats several times that my costume is incredible. A girl asks me to dance; I think she thought I was male because she left after I said something.
12:00 AM: I go over to Rocky Horror in that other building and sit with Dan, Josh, Mo, Liz, Keen, and Rachel. When the girl tries to paint the lipstick V on my head for being a first-timer, I stop her (in defense of my mask) with "Miss, I think you'll find that I'm already quite clearly labeled as such from head to toe." Movie starts, but the speakers don't work. While they're trying to fix the speakers, they decide to humiliate all us Virgins - like a good fangirl, I go up with the rest of them.
By way of humiliating us, they tell us to fake orgasms, and I'm first in line. I set the bar fairly high in the Audience Laugh-O-Meter by not breaking character (OH EVEY! OH EVEY YES!) but other people are creative, especially the guys.
The speakers never get fixed, so we all filter out and go back to our dorms.
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