Halloween was definitely the most fun time of the semester. Lynne came to visit, and we hung out, watched the movie Hitch (one of my favorites), baked a pumpkin pie, and ate far too much in the way of festive halloween snacks and treats (it turns out that popcorn, cheetoes, chocolate-covered raisins, and candy corn taste really good all mixed together). 
Then we dressed up in our lovely costumes and went to Club Tropicana for a Halloween dance.
Then we dressed up in our lovely costumes and went to Club Tropicana for a Halloween dance.
The next day we went with Celesete to a local corn maze, and had lots of fun girl-talk time. 
The following weekend was the dance competition, which went fairly well, I suppose, but not as well as I had hoped. However, they did have a costume part at the end, which gave me another fun chance to dress up. 
Socially, things have been going fairly well - I have made quite a few female friends/acquaintances from the the latin dance club and ballroom dance clubs, and I get along well with the other philosophy grad students (even though I don't really spend much time with them other than hanging around in the grad student office). Some of the guys in the dance clubs are decent fellows (though others are not so much), but none of them appear to be potential dance partners. I had hoped that I would find someone to practice moves with so that I could progress as a dancer and remember the moves I learned, but it looks like there is little prospect for that, even if I had time for it. Ah well, at least I am getting better at following salsa, that's something. I just wish there were more places to practice the other dances.
