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Halloween: is fun or scary more important?

Which is better: fun and funny or creepy and scary?

For some people, Halloween is a chance to dress up in a hilarious costume, hang out with friends, get colossal amounts of candy, and have fun. For others, it’s a time to go to a haunted house, see a scary movie, and scare the living daylights out of innocent bystanders. For me, it’s a little of both.

I love a good Halloween costume. One of my favorite things about the holiday is seeing what creative costumes my friends come up with. Costumes I myself have worn range from a Jedi Knight to a flower bed. And boy, do I love candy. Back when I was little and had the energy to trick or treat for hours on end, I would get so much candy that it would last me until the next May. These days, I’m a little too old for trick-or-treating, but I still find a way to get my candy. From door to door trick-or-treating to having a party at someone’s house, I always have loads of fun on Halloween night.

On the other hand, though, I thoroughly enjoy the scary side of Halloween.  I’ll watch a scary movie any day, and I especially love really awful zombie movies. Don’t ask me why, because I don’t know, but I think they’re pretty super. Even though I am fond of haunted houses, scary movies, and scaring people, I get scared really easily. So easily that I’ll get scared in broad daylight. If I’m just sitting at lunch, minding my own business and not thinking about scary things at all, and someone comes up behind me and yells “Boo!” I will most likely scream. As a result, scary movies and haunted houses are pretty scream-inducing. I couldn’t even get all the way through the last haunted house I went to. I got about a quarter of the way through, then freaked out, turned around and ran screaming out of the entrance. I had to sit at the exit and watch Saw by myself for 45 minutes before all my friends came out. I did get to have a great conversation with Hellraiser while I was waiting though. He was really nice, even under that scary mask and angry expression.

So maybe Halloween is a little bit of both for everybody. It’s about the candy and the fun and the costumes, but it’s also about where it all started, with the ghouls, ghosts and scares. That’s the great thing about Halloween. There’s something for everybody. Except for those silly people who don’t like anything. And they can just stay home and stay out of the way of our fun.

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Meridan Cavanaugh, Staff Reporter
In the beginning, Meridan Cavanaugh could not talk, walk, read or write. Now, sixteen years after her parents made up her unpronounceable name, she has overcome these obstacles and risen above her initial uselessness. A part of choir, theater and sometimes newspaper, she is involved in only the coolest programs of the school. She enjoys singing and playing piano, bass guitar, ukulele and harmonica, and will play the intro to Billy Joel's “Piano Man” for you until your ears bleed. Also, she is always listening to music from an alarmingly wide range of genres and is a condescending music snob. A cinephile from a very young age, she has vowed to watch every film on the “1000 Films to Change Your Life” list before she dies, which is a tall order for a mere mortal, but she, having gained immortality in a battle of wits with Socrates, will have no issue completing it. Some of her other life goals are to join the South African Extreme Ironing team, go to a Rage Against the Machine or Beastie Boys concert, and high five James Franco. Meridan moved here from Connecticut in eighth grade and while she misses trees, hills of any kind, and seasons, she has grown to love the people and low sales tax here.

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