Day 5 Best Night Out: Did you have a night out with friends or a loved one that rocked your world? Who was there? What was the highlight of the night?

Halloween night was cold, wet and damn well possibly one of the best nights I’ve ever spent in the city.

My sister, my girl friend, my closest friend and myself each went as characters from Clue. More characters were supposed to join us but they pussied out because of a little rain… ok it rained a lot.

It wasn’t just us though. We were also joined by my friend’s girl friend and three other friends… although I didn’t really know the pirate chick.

We went to see the parade in The Village but as you can see that was easier said than done.

In the end though despite (or maybe because of) the rain we end up having a great time and my sister even fulfilled her reason for going and got her picture taken with some drag queens.

I realized I’m doing this whole #bestof09 #best09 thing and never really mentioned the source of it all. Actually as far as I’m concerned the source is thatgirlallie.com because that’s where I first heard of it the concept actually comes from Gwen Bell. Anyway, now onto more nostalgia.

Day 4 Book What book - fiction or non - touched you? Where were you when you read it? Have you bought and given away multiple copies?

I find it amusing to be right this right now only because just last week I and three other friends started a book club. So I’m going to put up our first book for this list.

It’s not a new book by any means but Max Brooks’ World War Z was by far the best book I read this year. I picked the book up two Sundays ago. That Monday I read the first thirty or so pages of the book during a break at work and was pleased. It was a decent read and slightly entertaining. The following day again during my break I started reading and again didn’t think too much of it, that is until I reached page… 36 I believe it was?

The book is essentially just a bunch of survivors’ stories of a decades long zombie war. It’s one of these interviews that changed the way I looked at the book. I won’t go into any detail except to say that it’s how Israel reacted to the looming threat.

That day while reading that particular “intervew” was the first day in I can’t tell you how many years since I’ve felt myself drawn into a book. I did no work what so ever and read 180 pages and the remaining 150 the following day. I can’t remember the last time I read something with so much passion and intrigue let alone in such a short amount of time.