State School Scream

Care Bears, In Full Effect
Originally uploaded by li-wei.

Happy Halloween! We had quite the impressive evening of inebriation. After the two hour sojourn to Madison, WI, the ladies and I strutted our care bear goodness amidst the drunken masses of Univ. of Wisconsin's finest.

Highlights:
- BelligerANT challenging a police officer for asking her to descend from a city fixture.
- Mac & cheese pizza: sounds disgusting, but it's sooo good!
- Best/Most Un-PC Costume: guy dressed as the Pope with hat, wheelchair, and a friend who constantly and destructively wheeled him into drunken crowds.
- J9 peeing an ungodly amount of fluid into the streets of Madison
- Natalie paying a million dollars for smelly chicken fingers -- eww.
- watching Paul flirt with an U-G-L-Y girl
- Julie and BelligerANT doing the dork shuffle in the streets
- being a good samaritan and helping out a cute, drunken sailor from Wash U find his friends (can we say road kill, otherwise?)

Lowlights (is this a real word?):
- 5am Police Warning: fuck you Wisconsin PD! I was NOT speeding. That's costume-discrimination. The dude saw care bear ears and stopped us to "check" on us. On a good note/point of hilarity, Antoinette FELL ASLEEP while being questioned by the officer. Truly Osato style. Haha.
- realizing a friend's ignorance reminded me of the harsh reality of inherent racism in this country. As much as we hope for a colorblind existence, heritage still plays a pivotal role in the definition of identity. And until a white/Caucasian person can spend a day walking in the shoes of a person of color and live the disparity in experiences and opportunities, then someone of privilege can never truly understand why "race still matters." End of racial diatribe. Silly fun continueth.
- passing out the first hour in Madison (Bedtime Bear - go figure)
- losing Natalie to Satan

All in all, it was a good time. Can't say that I'd ever want to do it again, but as my first, and probably last, venture into state school-dom, it was fun.