Every year up until last year our Halloween ritual was to ride out to Isla Vista, CA to hang out with the crowd out there. UC Santa Barbara, alongside of being a major source of great biologists, chemists, writers and music-composition majors, is also one of the most MASSIVE party colleges in the state of California, so a meaningless holiday is just another excuse to drink.
Rarely (read: NEVER) do we ever ride down there and NOT end up drinking at someone's place. Halloween is just this massive spectacle of people in their costumes and severely tanked. I've already been repeatedly invited to go down there for Halloween this year but I'm seriously getting too old for this shit. It was fun when I was 24 but teetering on 30 just seems kind of overkill for me.
One year I dressed up as a "cholo":
... and got stopped by the local cops all the time for being drunk and belligerent. I'm seriously gonna miss college days.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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