I believe this is the first time I’ve been the most-elaborately costumed person in my workplace. For Halloween at least. I went as Finn the Human and brought along an episode to show people who’d never heard of the show Adventure Time. Which was most people.
One thing I really like about wearing a costume at work – as opposed to at a party – is the extra layer of ridiculousness layered into every interaction. I find those are even better when both people are in costume and there is no acknowledgement of the fact. I chatted with one of the bookstore women about their author signing last week, and she was in angel regalia and I was a radical adventurer and it was no big thing.
On the weekend I went into Vancouver and played D&D in costume with library school friends and that was pretty fun. I’m really glad that Vancouver isn’t a completely onerous distance from here, since well, that’s where my friends are.
We were talking over the weekend about how I can get a bit more of a social circle here and it seems that being the kind of person who could go somewhere and play rec-league sportball with strangers is the ticket. I am still not sure what I’ll do instead. It’s a good thing I have the internet to keep me company till I get meatspace pals sorted out.
I bit the bullet and went to work in costume. As expected, I had to explain my Spike Spiegel costume. Lots of smiling and nodding was involved. Later I had another shift at a different library and wore my “Game of Death” Bruce Lee outfit. The supervisor asked which footballer I was supposed to be… Someone else was closer with their guess of Kill Bill (as if I was dressed as the movie itself) and to be fair, Uma Thurman’s yellow tracksuit was most definitely paying homage to Bruce Lee. It was a very slow night.