So I am almost certain there will be a shitload of you out there all dressing up as Heath's Joker this year for Halloween. This year should be a tremendous one for parties considering Halloween falls on a Friday night. So I'm trying to throw around costume ideas. I'd want to be the Joker too, but it's gonna be overdone and unoriginal. I considered maybe dressing up as the Joker with the makeup and all that, and then wearing the clown mask he had during the bank heist, like a double costume. But that's still kinda unoriginal. One of my alternative plans is to find a really REALLY high-quality replica Dark Knight batsuits. I'm talking movie prop costume, not cheap spandex outfit. I'm willing to drop some $$ for a good costume but it's been damn near impossible to find one, even on eBay. I don't have Christian Bale's build anyway.

Costumes Inc. has a REALLY great Stormtrooper replica costume for about $700. I guess that's always a viable option but I'm not that big of a Star Wars fan, plus I'd have to constantly take off my helmet to drink anything unless I set up some kinda of tube straw system in the helmet. Not to mention the fact that it's freaking $700. The Empire spends entirely too much money on soldiers who can't shoot straight and are essentially Jedi fodder.

Hrm... looking at my last deviation , I think I'll put together an Indiana Jones outfit. Fedora, leather jacket, shoulder bag, safari shirt, khakis, boots, bullwhip, revolver/holster, belt. Plus I can actually wear some of the pieces beyond Halloween. So I have to start collecting these components and hopefully it'll end up looking good.

What's everyone else planning to do for Halloween?? Parties? Costume ideas? Inquiring minds want to know!

I nearly faceplanted at the gym the other day when all the ellipticals were taken and I had to use a treadmill. Not my favorite apparatus considering that I'm still wearing my 8 year old pair of Reeboks I've had since freshman year. The treadmills are a bit narrower than ones I've seen at other gyms, allowing the school to put far more treadmills next to each other in a row I guess. So whenever I get sweat in my eyes, I'll close em and start wiping my face with my hands. I was unaware of this til now, but apparently when I run with my eyes closed, I tend to stagger a bit in my running. So of course when the treadmill is that narrow and you don't run straight, you end up running up on the parts that DON'T move. Almost an epic fail. And after my last 3 miles on a treadmill, I haven't been back to the gym for almost a week because my old shoes are done, finito. My feet hurt so much and I had crazy shin splints. I really need new running shoes. And I think I'll go back to weights for a while instead of the cardio, at least til I can walk without a limp.

Done and done.