who are these little people?

just returned from trick or treating. i have to say it's getting better each year. we went up 24th street and got candy from walgreen's, 2 liquor/party stores, the laundromat, the barber next to the park,world pioneer video, punjab, an unknown but good-smelling chinese restaurant, manivanh thai, two taquerias, a mysterious clothing store that materialized in the last 48 hours, and pop's bar (pictured above). sugarlump the ultra hip cafe was out of candy but very apologetic. there were a few cute little princesses and thomas the trains but mostly serious ghouls, grim reapers with blinking red eyes, dark witches, etc. we then returned down 23rd street which had tons of open gates and doors and decorations. the density of this area makes it easy to collect a lot of candy without walking too far. as we waited for one house to bring us candy and they never appeared a shy man appeared from the dark house next door mumbling trick or treat and pulled a dollar out of his wallet for miles. one guy was lowering a bucket of lollipops on a rope from his 2nd floor flat. million fishes had wierd stuff up like a giant stuffed flying cow and a tree with glowing purple leaves which had the kids wondering. one house had rainbow rave lights dancing on the sidewalk but no candy. my favorite house was a cool guy at the top of a steep steps carving a pumpkin while blasting danzig.

so tonight mother pumpkin will come and take all the candy miles didn't shove down his throat and leave him a toy, in this case a snow leopard. she is going a little far this year, in my opinion, but what can we do? then mother pumpkin , ahem,will distribute the candy to all the poor kids who didn't get to go trick or treating this year. our son is still such a little innocent and has no suspicions, only practical questions, like how will she know he is asleep, etc.

so i pretty much controlled myself around the throngs of kids and parents in our neighborhood tonight and only asked ONE parent where her kids went to school. they lived right by bryant so i assumed they went there but oops, they go to private school. and i saw one mom friend and she is in the kindergarten hunt and is looking only at spanish immersion for her 2 kids who are already bilingual.

there is a lot of cheap chocolate coursing through my veins so i better get working on my homework before i crash into ccandy dreams. more school stuff in a few days, i promise. i bet you can't wait.