I have been reminded that I should have clarifed something about OSU's ranking in my Sports on Monday entry this week. OSU is ranked 15th in the Coaches' Poll, and 14th in the AP. I use the Coaches' rankings just because I am an ESPN addict and that's what I see all the time.

Anyhoo, I have been thinking about Halloween costumes lately because I actually have a party to go to this Friday and it will be the first Halloween that I have dressed up since I was a freshman in high school; I'm not counting the years where I threw on whatever old costume was around to work for an hour at a church carnival for National Honor Society service hours. I can actually name every costume from the time I was four through ninth grade:
Age four: witch
Kindergarten: purple dragon
1st: Little Miss Muffet
2nd: Cat in the Hat
3rd: fairy princess
4th:alien
5th:gypsy
6th:roller skating car-hop waitress
7th:Old West can-can dancer
8th:white tiger
9th:genie

This is an interesting mix to me. I have a couple very stereotypical little girl costumes, and a few very unusual ones. I don't remember how I came up with being a dragon when I was five, only that everyone kept calling me a dinosaur despite the fact that my mother had constructed a very clever nose with cardboard fire coming out. Luckily this was long before Barney so being a purple dinosaur wasn't that bad. I think my favorite costume was the roller-skating waitress because I got to wear my roller skates everywhere, even inside at the carnival we went to. Little Miss Muffet was one of my mom's artistic achievements; she made a pinafore and puffy hat out of tissue paper and my three year old baby brother was my spider.

I'm not going to tell you what my Halloween costume is this year just yet. Here's a hint, though: red is VERY important.