Halloween

My family hates Halloween.  There is there is not anything intrinsically negative about Fall, or some of the activities associated with Halloween.  There is the matter of all things "Scary" that becomes a problem, however.   I have a terribly active imagination and it is quite capable of terrifying me witless without any help.  Because of this, I (and my family) tend to shun the majority of "Halloween" things like the plague.  My sister and I have an inside joke that starting October 1st, we become social hermits for the month.  It is the only way to avoid all of the scary movies, haunted houses and other detestables.  I find that many people give me a hard time for this.  What good does teasing me that I don't like scary things going to do than to annoy me?  Its not going to make me change my mind, or give into peer pressure.

I do find that people mistake me and assume that I hate everything associated with Fall/Halloween.  This is completely absurd!  I LOVE to carve pumpkins, and am actually really good at it if I do say so myself.  I also love to dress up, and usually go all out as this is the one time that I can get away with doing crazy and borderline inappropriate things.  I love the crispness in the air, the distinctive slant of the sun and the beautiful colors of the changing leaves.  I'm also one of those people who go out of their way when walking to make sure that I step on every leaf to hear the satisfying crunch! 

Back to the aversion to scary things, but there is one interesting catch:  I love to read horror novels.  Now, I'm not a huge Stephen King fan, and I don't like gore, but I am a HUGE fan of all sorts of supernatural things.  With that genre, the stories generally tend to fall into the horror category, but I love them anyway.  So I guess that makes me a bit of a contradiction.  Its not like that is anything new.  I'm a blond physics major who is also a hard core athlete.....tell me something I don't know.