it's the great pumpkin, charlie brown
Sep. 19th, 2005 05:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
verbicideI know September's barely started. But this time of year seems to plummet through the holidays pretty quick.
My company celebrates Halloween. In a big way. In a "You are required to wear a costume or the Vice President will haul out items from her office and force you into them" way.
I don't think my cat ears, tail, and insouciant expression will suffice here as it did at Netopia. I thought I was off the hook, because I actually fly back from Oakland on that Monday and could just...not come in to work.
But then Jeff The Magnificent stopped by my office and said a group had gotten together for a Gilligan's Island theme. He asked if I would be Lovey to his Thurstan Howell, III. I told him I was going to be out that day and he made a NOOOOO-face, so I admitted that my flight gets back early and I was planning on coming in. Because, party!
So, now I must accumulate various items: a wig, a flowered mumu, a floppsie hat, enormous fake pearls and other gaudy jewelry, fake eyelashes, and a hollow coconut with a tiki umbrella and/or flower. The imperious manner, I already have down.
Jeff's going to wear his tuxedo with an ascot and hat and dear god, we're going to be simply fabulous, dahling.
I've been given the task of grabbing some old episodes so we can practice the accents and mannerisms! I can't decide if I should kabuki my brown face and/or make it look wrinkly or not. It's bizarrely exciting to be too-young for a role.
My company celebrates Halloween. In a big way. In a "You are required to wear a costume or the Vice President will haul out items from her office and force you into them" way.
I don't think my cat ears, tail, and insouciant expression will suffice here as it did at Netopia. I thought I was off the hook, because I actually fly back from Oakland on that Monday and could just...not come in to work.
But then Jeff The Magnificent stopped by my office and said a group had gotten together for a Gilligan's Island theme. He asked if I would be Lovey to his Thurstan Howell, III. I told him I was going to be out that day and he made a NOOOOO-face, so I admitted that my flight gets back early and I was planning on coming in. Because, party!
So, now I must accumulate various items: a wig, a flowered mumu, a floppsie hat, enormous fake pearls and other gaudy jewelry, fake eyelashes, and a hollow coconut with a tiki umbrella and/or flower. The imperious manner, I already have down.
Jeff's going to wear his tuxedo with an ascot and hat and dear god, we're going to be simply fabulous, dahling.
I've been given the task of grabbing some old episodes so we can practice the accents and mannerisms! I can't decide if I should kabuki my brown face and/or make it look wrinkly or not. It's bizarrely exciting to be too-young for a role.
