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Halloween is on a Saturday. This only happens every few years, so it should be a grand affair. Keyword: should. I always forget that, for normal people, Halloween is a mere boost in sales for candy companies and a chance to be ludicrously, cough, risqu\u00e9 rather than creative in their dress. I also forget that partying in Toronto usually consists of dancing in close quarters with alcohol. No one holds salons<\/a> anymore, Liesl.<\/p>\n Events on campus are scattered everywhere on Halloween, as clubs big and small, student unions and associations all have their own events, sometimes advertised only to current members or by flyers\/posters, that kind of thing. Googling \"halloween, u of t, costume party\" brings up generic dances and stuff from last year. I find Halloween stuff is kind of low-key, or you only hear about it if you look at the right poster at the right time. Example: on the 23rd, there was apparently a Zombie Prom at the Cat\u2019s Eye. \ud83d\ude41 Missed it! I\u2019ve found only two large parties for U of T students so far, one of which is apparently cancelled?!* The other one is \"Nightmare on Peter St.\"<\/a>, held by UC, St Mike\u2019s and Victoria College, on Thursday. Looks cool.<\/p>\n Every club\/bar is having a costume party, of course. There will be lots of dancing in Toronto, off campus. That\u2019s all good, but \u2026 for the paranoid, this lovely swine flu season might scare you off enclosed-space dancing and, in turn, being breathed on by strangers.<\/p>\n So, aside from swine flu scaring us from going out, and midterms blocking our ability to plan the greatest Samhain-inspired-Halloween-on-Saturday-parties-ever, there\u2019s one more problem with Halloween this year:<\/p>\n You can\u2019t wear your costume to class.<\/p>\n Well, hmm. Why not just wear one on Friday? Yes, you\u2019ll get the initial weird look, but after six seconds or so, the gazers will think, \u201cOh yeah! Halloween is tomorrow! This fellow student is such a nerd that they have to wear a costume on Friday.\u201d They will understand.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I, however, cannot. Why?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Because I have no class on Fridays.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Woe, woe. Whatever shall be done? Well, guess what. I, Liesl, am renowned for crazy ideas that never come to fruition. My class-less Fridays led me to a brilliant one. I bring it to you, dear reader.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I dare everyone who reads this blog to wear a costume every day of this week.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n If you\u2019re too chicken (like me), at least wear something strange. <\/span>C\u2019mon, it will be fun! If enough students do it, maybe we\u2019ll generate enough eyebrow-raising to be a point of gossip on Monday.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Honesty. Midterms suck. We need something to brighten up the week. We can start a new tradition, Halloween-on\u2013a-Saturday = Midterm Madness Week**, or something. We\u2019ve gone so crazy, from academic stress and swine flu panic, that we\u2019ll wear a costume every day. Nothing that will cause obstructions in class or insult anyone, but you already don\u2019t do that on Halloween, right? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Need some inspiration? Keep it simple, so you can still study and write essays late into the night. Some easy-to-pull-off costumes\/strange things to wear:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n - <\/span><\/span>Liesl<\/p>\n -<\/span><\/p>\n -<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n *sw1n3 fl00zzzz?! \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n **we need a better name than Midterm Madness Week, though<\/p>\n ***don't remember who said this<\/p>\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n\t