ateolf | Halloweener

During my lunch break I finished reading A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan and it was okay. A lot of the plot points felt a bit forced. I was worried the music stuff would be worse than it was, but mostly it didn't go too deep into details and it was fine, but at times it did feel a little bit off. After work Mary Beth and I went up to the Park and walked around some. Walked around the pond and through the Old Forest and about the greensward. Then at night we went over to Matt's for his Halloween party. A lot of people were in costume but we didn't have any this year. At first we didn't know anyone there and just stood around awkwardly (eating pretty good food!). A few people we know showed up and it was a little less awkward. And then later someone came up to me that I hadn't seen since high school! It was Julia from the bbs days (I felt bad 'cuz I wasn't sure of her name at first and I was actually thinking it was probably Julia but then I was also like maybe it's Julie or even Jessica). We were going to leave at one point and then got distracted standing by the fire outside for at least another hour. Oh, there was also this lady there who's a massage therapist and brought her complicated stool thing and was offering free massages to anyone and it just so happened that yesterday I woke up with a terrible ache in my neck but I'm way too self-conscious to get a free massage at a party! (It's like a person in that setting is both TOO familiar and not familiar enough!) Okay now that's about it.