By Slanted Light

Ah, October - no longer just a day of spookiness, it's started a month early with me clearing away two dead bodies. One of which was eviscerated. Actually it was just the viscera... On the bright side, they were the bodies of neither me nor my roommate, so all is still well really - the first body was the non-body (the viscera - well, at least some of it. I didn't check) that one of the cats had brought in and kindly placed exactly where I sit at the table. Of course I didn't actually look under the table as I blinked sleepily around whilst turning on my laptop, so I'm just really hoping I didn't stand in it. With my soft-soled sock-slippers. I've put them in the laundry basket, just in case... The second body was much fresher and - thank Cthulu and all the wiggly gods - still intact. And in the mouth of a cat, who knew I was gonna chase it away the second it saw me. Which I did, and then disposed of the second body. So - October!

And I have decided that I am going to cheer the fuck up! I missed autumn last year, and I was so looking forward to it this year, and it's all gone hideously wrong, but that doesn't mean that I can't still enjoy some parts of it, so I'm going to. And I'm going to post about it. *g* So it'll be a bit like the 100 Days of Happy but with added October. *g*

There are many cool things. I'm still reading for the RIP Reading Challenge, and eldritchhobbit is posting her annual Halloween countdown, and the leaves are turning! I may even be able to convince roommate to turn the central heating on eventually... *g* I'm off back east in a week or so for a hospital appointment, and so I'm going to spend an extra night in London, and go and see all the poppies at the Tower. I've finally, after ages found someone and booked a violin/fiddle lesson. Eeeep! I don't have a violin, and maybe I can't do it, but... it'll be fun trying again.

Actually, speaking of The Halloween Countdown, I love the poem that Eldritchhobbit chose for today too, and I hope she won't mind if I repost it here:

( The Ghost of a Flower )

I went out today too, cos I had a doctor's appointment (nice GP actually, wish I could keep her) and so I thought I'd have lunch. I passed the Good Earth shop/restaurant/all-sorts on the way up from a completely new carpark, so I went and had a wander around the bookshops. I've had less luck in the Waterstones here actually, so I popped into WH Smith first, just to see, and actually found two RIP-ish books that I fancied, so yeay. And then I went back and had African stew, sitting in a bit of a room all to myself, which was part of the main room. What's so October about that, you ask? Well:
I liked my little cubby. And the stew was delish. But - it's all a bit philosophical. Was it worse when people actually hung the heads of dead things on the wall? Or is it weird that we now hang things on our wall that remind us of dead things?

Oh, and that reminds me! I was stopped on the way home at the traffic lights, just around the corner from these ones... which are all halloween-y. Those leaves are just hovering around that light - see! *g* Anyway, there I was, all good - and something landed on the roof of my car. A big sort of thump! so that I looked up, and then thought but there's nowhere for a cat to jump from! and then I thought it would've been a big cat... and then the light's changed, and since no one around me seemed to be reacting or anything I drove off, and nothing fell off, and I went slowly, but all was good, and no one was looking twice at my car, and I got home, and of course there was nothing there. But I swear - something landed on the roof of my car. There's nothing else that noise could have been! And yet... eep!

So it's been a fitting beginning, really... *g* Right - off to read something October. *g*