Seattle-based job and apartment.

ASAP

1.  Bulldog snoring.

2.  Cohabitation with noisy male.

3.  Library budget cuts leading to early closure

4.  Prescription of horse-sized pain pills for back injury

5.  Prevalence of yuppie bastards at local study spots

6.  Shortage of accessible literature on latino psychopathology (I don't speak shrink.)

7.  Onset of menstrual period

8.  Proximity of noisy little kids in every conceivable study venue.  (Maybe I should study at a strip club?)

9.  Permeating feelings of apathy

10.  Desire to take a nap

I made new friends this week.  No worries, they were very much alive.  Also they were cool.  They invited me to a haunted house event much like this one:

http://www.darkhollowhaunt.com/main_menu.html

The house was one of many Halloween-season possibilities.  There were at least five haunted houses, a haunted morgue, a haunted corn maze and even a haunted cemetery near us.

Apparently they do those.  Creepify a cemetery, hide actors in zombie costumes behind the tombstones, then lead groups of thrill-seeking people through the gravesites and make them pee their pants with scary pranks.

This got me.  I have a certain reverence for the dead. 

I don't believe in an afterlife.  I don't believe our bodies are these sacred temples.  I just can't stomach the idea of drunken teenagers trampling my mother's grave.  Anybody's grave.  I don't find those movie gags about people accidentally spilling Grandma's ashes to be funny.

I can't tell you why.  I'm just not cool with it.

Do you think we should have a reverence for the remains of the dead? 

Would you attend a haunted cemetery event?