Happy Halloween!

By: Meradeth Houston on 9:08 AM

I know, like everyone in the universe is blogging about Halloween today. But, here's to being original! (Or not.) Really, I like Halloween for one very important reason: candy. It's the only time of year I feel any sort of justification of buying it and keeping it in my house. Even if it means that I eat mini-twix for breakfast :) Other than that, I don't generally dress up, and even though I could today for my students, I'm probably going to just stick with the regularly suggested programming. Lame, I know.

The thing is, about Halloween, is that I'm not a big fan of being scared. I just don't understand the urge. I mean, my husband dragged me to see this:

and I couldn't sleep for weeks. I don't do much better with scary books. Carrie Ryan's zombie books, while excellent, scared the crud out of me. I'm a pansy. I'll admit it. Then, I'll stay home and hand out candy to all the neighborhood kids :)

Here's a really cool article about the science of being scared. Totally interesting!

Anyhow, Halloween, not exactly my holiday. How about you? Do you enjoy dressing up? Have a costume you're donning for today? I'd love to hear about it!

Also, don't forget to enter my contest! It's super simple (and there are scary books!).

And this is just for fun today:

(Love xkcd!)