Tuesday, 16 October 2001 | Leeches' new dead friend

Since I took this picture, two things have happened: (1) One of the creatures pictured has entirely disappeared, apart from a tail and the lower part of two back legs. (2) I bought a loud bell and attached it to the other creature.

Tonight at Stef and Matt's a few of us got together to work on Halloween costumes—to brainstorm, to sew and build, to bounce ideas off each other, to exchange material, to try things on, etc., etc. Both Stef and Matt always have incredible costumes, and they have baskets full of scraps of fabric and foam and piles of idea books, so they've instituted a sort-of costume workshop at their place this year. I've only just decided what it is I want to be, and now I have to figure out how the hell I'm going to transform myself into the image I have in my head. I'm gonna need an ocean of hair gel.