My co-workers have nearly finished off the two dozen extremely sprinkle covered cupcakes I brought in this morning.

I miss getting to dress up or do anything for Halloween so much. I’m such a costume person.

In the continuing series of scanning old photos, I give you me from Halloween 1977 as Casper the Friendly Ghost. The first year I would’ve dressed up and toddled around anywhere since I was all of two weeks old my real first Halloween in 1976. I like this picture because you can see things in my house in Bussey in the background. I’m in the hallway and the dining room is behind me.

I wasn’t feeling too hot at work yesterday afternoon, so I came home early and cat-napped part of the afternoon/evening. I was freezing most of the time, despite it being warm in my apartment and me wearing several layers of clothes. I finally warmed up when I went to bed and slept decently, but I woke up an hour ago and I’m all congested and coughing and chilly. I think I have a bit of a fever. I can’t find my thermometer to say definitively about that. Bleh. I called in sick to work because a) I feel crappy and b) I hate when people come to work all sickly and cough around me. Gross. I’m going to dose myself with all the Zicam and Airborne and liquids I can today. Hopefully, I’ll beat it back before it establishes itself and will be able to get back in to work first thing tomorrow and then make up the hours for today in overtime so I don’t get frowned on at review time.

Take care of yourself out there!

As my iPod shuffled the song “Mulder and Scully” (a random British pop song from when I lived abroad) into my ears, workJeff™ informed me that the internets were reporting that the next X-Files movie is scheduled to start filming on December 10th.

Oh sweet cinematic happiness. My favorite TV show ever gives me something new to look forward to. Unless it is really rushed through post-production, it wouldn’t be out until next Christmas at the earliest. 2008 or 2009. Enough time to rewatch all my DVDs in order.

I still wear my X-Files jacket on the colder days. Yes, I have an X-Files jacket. One of those wool and leather “letterman” styles. It says “the truth is out there” on the back and has the X-Files logo on the front.

I will forever be playing “he/she was on the X-Files” in my head whenever I watch TV or movies.

Once an X-Phile, always an X-Phile.