If you’re like me (and according to all Instagram/Facebook/Pinterest/ugh…all of you are), the most exciting portion of our year is October-December. We’ve got Halloween (costumes, scary stories, candy), Thanksgiving (food from Not Sodexo), Christmas (presents), and New Years (parties). Nothing is wrong with this time of year.

After that…it’s January, it’s cold, and we’re all miserable until June hits and we’re wearing skimpy clothes again.

We’ve got to celebrate this time of year while it lasts…because it’s another full year until it comes again. Unless you believe in the Mayan Apocalypse of 2012.

Halloween, in my opinion, begins when the leaves turn orange around now, and lasts until Halloweekend is over. There is no excuse not to celebrate with apples, pumpkins, and scary things that make you want to poop your pants, and maybe the pants of those around you. Thankfully, there are a lot of really neat FREE events coming up that actually LET YOU celebrate what may be our last October together. Mayans, please don’t kill us.

Next Wednesday, from 7-8 in the Miller Hall Function Room, a professional ghost story teller will be telling spooky stories. Word on the rumor mill is that she plays with the Ghost & Gravestones tour, and as a lover of all things frightening, I’ve been eying those buses outside Cafe 73 for a year now.

On October 25, Suffolk Ramifications and Seriously Bent are putting their award-winning heads together for some “Treats and Beats”. This happens at 9 PM in the 150 Basement. You simply can’t go wrong with some good music and some good laughs.

On October 26, the RHA is putting on “Hauntfest” at the Modern Theatre at 7PM. Newcomers Suffolk Sketch Comedy will be performing around 8:30.  For those of you who religiously celebrate Halloweekend out at parties or clubs…this event gets out at 10 PM. You can go in costume, win a costume contest, Celtics tickets, and even more reason to celebrate that night. Plus, more time in costume is always a win in my book. I plan to drag out every second I can sit in my fairy princess costume before people start judging me.

For now, those are all the spooktacular events I know about, but I assure you, I will keep my eyes open. I’m sure something is going to come up behind me and go “boo” before the  month is over.

~Corinne