With Halloween coming and my brain already thinking about plans for it, I remembered this little story from several years ago.
I had been working constantly, often pulling seven day weeks. My friend has been trying for some time to hang out and get me out of the house. A week before Halloween he asked me to go to a party with him. It would be full costume, masks encouraged. I figured what the hell and swapped shifts around so I had a couple of days off.
I decided to push my own comfort levels with my costume, force myself to be more forward so I didn’t just sit on the wall all night keeping to myself. Combined with a recent kick of watching Bleach in my down time, I chose to go as Getsuga. I already had long black hair down my back, and the costume ended up being quite form fitting. It caught me by surprise how well I pulled it off. The constant physically demanding work had gotten me into pretty decent shape without me paying attention.