I spent Halloween at Taylor's handing out candy to the little kids that came (only 2 groups, sadly), we carved pumpkins (Taylor has pictures but keeps forgetting to send them to me, hopefully I'll be able to post them eventually), I baked a pumpkin pie from scratch, which was so much fun. It turned out pretty well except that I mistakenly used a grahm cracker pie crust instead of a dough crust. Whoops! So we just ate out the middle. We also watched the Shining, which I hadn't seen before, but recognized as Timberline Lodge immediately!
Since then I've been to a couple Halloween dinners. At one I hosted a costume contest dressed as Carmen Sandiego. This isn't the best picture, but that is me behind the podium on the right.
The day after Halloween there was another candlelight dinner put on by Alumnae Relations who invited Scripps Alums to come back and socialize with us. That was a lot of fun, and as Scrippsies we love opportunities to get dressed up.
In the bottom one my knee is poking out rather awkwardly....
This last weekend I went to SCAMfest, the Southern California A Capella Music Festival. Every year this is such a great event. It's held in the largest auditorium on campus because soooo many people come out for it. The Claremont colleges have 8 a capella groups, all with different personalities. USC and UCLA both send groups to SCAMfest as well. Here are some videos of my favorite pieces from this year.
This is a group called the After School Specials doing a Backstreet Boys mash-up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U18trMdi6YY
This is Men's Blue & White doing a new popular song called, Down:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhEddzhRq08
I especially like their dance moves that start about a minute and a half in.
This is a group called Midnight Echo doing their own version of Baby Got Back, which I thought was really creative and the crowd loved it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeyfsVRvcC0
By the way, my major is now officially Creative Writing: Fiction. I haven't heard back about Study Abroad yet.
